CCE's Horrible Hogging Habit

[Pisces225]

CCE is a great encoder, but if you plan on using it you may as well imagine you don't have a computer while it's running. I've found CCE to be such a sorry cpu/ram hog you simply can't do anything else while encoding.

CCE puts TMPGEnc to shame as far as encoding, but at least TMPG gives you the option to change the priority so you can actually still use your computer while converting video.

How is is that CCE is such a great program and it's missing this very basic function? Or maybe I'm the one missing it and it has this option? If so please enlighten me, I'm thinking the people who made CCE were missing part of their brain when they left this option out...

Any other fellow CCE users miffed about what a sorry ass CPU hog this program is?

[Baldrick]

Change the priority with the windows task manager, right click on the process under Processes.

[Pisces225]

DOH!
Thank you!

[guns1inger]

Personally, I'd be pretty pissed off if an encoder didn't use all the CPU I could throw at it. You can lower the priority, but the encode will take longer, perhaps hours longer. I do most of my encoding overnight, so it's not that much of a problem to let it have what it needs.