Problem:

When I load Pinnacle TVCEnter Pro CPU utilitization jumps to 97% and sometimes pins to 100%.  When I shutdown Pinnacle TVCenter Pro CPU drops to 7% 

Questions:

1. Am I using the latest version software?

2. Are there patches for this issue? 

3. Is anyone else experiencing this problem?

4. Are there any Windows XP tweaks needed?

 

Environment

Computer and OS:

Windows XP Professional

Version 2002

Service Pack 3

Dell OPTIPLEX GX270

Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80 GHZ

2.79 Ghz, 3.50 GB of RAM

Software:

 Pinnacle TVCenter Pro

Build 1903

Version: 4.98.1903

Hardware:

PCTV HD Pro Stick

Video Hardware:

Radeon 9600 Series

Driver ATI Technologies Inc

Driver Date: 9/28/2007

Driver Version: 8.421.0.0

Does this cause any malfunction to Windows or TV Center Pro?

I guess what you can do is to open Task Manager while TVC is open and then go to Processes tab, right click on TVC and then lower the priority. This may address it.

Good suggestion.  I will give it a try

Interesting, setting priority did nothing.  What I did do though was set CPU affinity to only one of the CPUs and that seems to have solved with CPU spike, at least on one of the CPUs.   I will let it run for a while and see if this fixes the intermittent short freezes.

Will be happy to hear the results.