Question for Vista Guru's

[marpibeach]

Hi,

I need to set and ?maintain? certain process priorities on Vista as those processes startup. Of course I know how to do it through Taskmaster > Processes > Set Priority, but after the application is closed, it defaults to its regular setting when that process is started again. For instance, I would like Windows Media Player to always start with a "high" priority. I don't want to have to get into Taskmaster to do this each time. Anyone know of a work around for this?

Thanks

Oh...I'm using Vista Home Premium

 

[Nothinman]

First you should figure out what real problem that you're trying to fix and fix the real problem and not bandaid over it like this. You should never have to mess with process priorities, the most anyone should ever do is lower the priority of something like Seti and even that's not necessary as Seti will do that itself.

But if you really want to do it you'll have to write some batch files to use the start command to start your processes.

 

[marpibeach]

Well, this is the problem. When I play MPEG movies using Media Player the video lags. This doesn't happen with DVD's. I've noticed that if I set the priority to "high" though all is good. Now when I play these MPEG files I don't have anything else running. Also, I don't have the stupid little side bar running either. I'm running an AMDx2 4400 w/2GB of memory and an Nvidia 7600GS. Surely this is enough to run Vista and an MPEG movie. Who knows why it lags. I just know that setting the priority to high works. Therefore, I'd like to set it and keep it there permanently whenever I fire up Media Player.

 

[Bozo]

There are some patches available for Media player. Have you installed these?

Bozo

 

[JonnyBlaze]

start /high "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe"

create a shortcut that points to that.

 

[Nothinman]

I've noticed that if I set the priority to "high" though all is good. Now when I play these MPEG files I don't have anything else running.

Those are contradictory statements, process priority only affects how much CPU time a process gets relative to other processes. There's always the same amount of CPU time globally available and changing priorities around won't change that.

 

[marpibeach]

Originally posted by: Bozo
There are some patches available for Media player. Have you installed these?

Bozo

I have Vista/Media Player updated with all the latest patches, etc. Also, all my other drivers (e.g., video) are current.

 

[marpibeach]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

I've noticed that if I set the priority to "high" though all is good. Now when I play these MPEG files I don't have anything else running.

Those are contradictory statements, process priority only affects how much CPU time a process gets relative to other processes. There's always the same amount of CPU time globally available and changing priorities around won't change that.

This is the scenario.

Other than Vista humming away, there are no other apps running: Explorer, Word, a game, whatever.

If I play a MPEG video the video simply lags. Now, if I put the Media Player process priority to high (in this situation) and play the MPEG it fixes the lag.

If I play a DVD under the same circumstances (w/o messing with the processor priority settings and leaving it at its normal setting) in Media Player it plays just fine.

Does this make sense? No, it doesn't. All I can tell you is what's going on.

 

[Nothinman]

I see what you're saying and no it doesn't make sense but messing with priorities is only papering over whatever the real problem is.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

You have a codec issue. Download and install the k-lite codec pack and let us know how it is running.

 

[Thecrowing87]

Hi new to the forums even-though I read them a lot. Well ill just get to the point, I am having the exact same issue as the OP, DVDs lag and what not, I have the k-lite codec pack and it still runs pretty horrible, which is a shame cause I do enjoy the way media center works ><. If anybody figures out a solution please reply.

oh btw

system:

AMD 4200+ X2
7800 GS
1 gig RAM
40 gig WD Raptor


Please help if you can I like vista alot aside from this rather large annoyance

 

[Thecrowing87]

ok i think i fixed it i just use vlc now, shame that media center doesn't work properly, i had poor game performance as well, to fix that i just installed dx9. Now everything works fine.