I'm trying to display song text with a video in a background layer, but can't seem to find a PC with enough power. In tests, it seems that displaying just a song takes more CPU than displaying just a video, which surprises me. Task Manager shows nearly 100% CPU for a song; videos are 30-70%. The song shows over 20,000 page faults a second. Results seem the same for Standard or Fast rendered; with WPF the page faults drop to 100 or so, but CPU remains high (and I couldn't display videos).

My current system is a 2.8GHz Celeron with XP SP3 and 3D Blaster FX 5200 with a single display (displaying either to the whole display or 50%). Earlier tests have been on more powerful machines with better graphics cards and a secondary monitor. What would be a reasonable spec for a PC to show a background video and a song, and to change either of them smoothly?

stevek_mcc wrote Just noticed that setting the song background to a Color rather than None drops CPU usage to 2% and page faults to 10,000 a second. With an Image background CPU is 52% and page faults rise to 33,000 a second. With a black layer 1 and the song with no background in layer 2, CPU is 100% and page faults 20,000. Sometimes ScreenMonkey seems to throttle the CPU to 50%, but more normally it goes to 100%. (Sorry for my first post starting with a problem! I really like what I've seen in a few days of playing with ScreenMonkey. You've achieved something quite remarkable here, even if everything's not quite working for me yet)

Hi. I'm facing a similar issue. I notice the CPU usage drops back to normal if the Song Type --> Display Option --> Transition is NOT set to None. As long as one of the transition speed is selected, the 100% CPU issue doesn't appear.

Looks like a software bug to me.