cpu usage and tmpgenc plus

[mistycat]

When using TMPGenc Plus,its cpu usage in Task Manager is at 99% and the pc is virtually useless while TMPGenc is running. Once. on startup, the pc became very slow and I found 4 TMPGenc processes running and as each was ended, the % was added to the others until there was 1 at 99%. I hadn't even opened TMPGenc this time. I completely uninstalled and reinstalled with no change. The 99% probably happens 90% of the time and began in the last month or two. With 1 G of RAM, this shouldn't happen. This has never happened with any other program and Mainconcept works fine. Thankyou for any help.

[jimmalenko]

If TMPGEnc spawns 4 threads on startup, something is wrong with your PC. If you are running Win XP, go to the start menu > run and type msconfig. here you can selectively stop any programs running on startup. Either that or do a system restore back to when you know it wasn't doing it by default.

TMPGEnc sets your CPU to 99% if it is set to high priority. It is an encoder. For optimum performance, you are not meant to be doing anything else on your PC. If you absolutely need to, set the priorities to Low. You encoding will take about 3 times as long but your PC will respond as quick as normal.

[mistycat]

Thankyou for the reply.

[TBoneit]

On the other hand. It could be your PC's Specs?

I run 3.0Ghz w/1Gig DDR.

As I type this I'm running TMPGenc Plus encoding, Burning a DVD, Running a Newsgoup reader program, & Have TMPGenc DVD author open so I'll know what to write on the DVD when it is done. The computer is slightly slower here in IE6 reading these forums, but only slightly when Disk I/O is needed since four other programs are reading/writing to the disk right now.

At work with the 1200 Mhz Athlon, 256 MB SDram it's slowed percepably with just encoding and Internet browsing going on.

Why not use the Batch encoding in TMPGenc and run them overnight instead of when you need to do other things?

Good Luck.

[jimmalenko]

Why not use the Batch encoding in TMPGenc and run them overnight instead of when you need to do other things?

Good call.