Graphic Cards CPU still overloaded after GPU installed

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anandkrishnantc

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Hello,
I have installed HD 4770 on my system hoping I can watch HD videos. But no use. CPU shows 100% usage and the video is stuck...

I have installed the drivers and set the MB to make primary display adapter to PCIE.

My system CPU is 1.8 GHz and system mem is 1GB.

My Display card has 512MB DDR5 (as in specification)
Why my CPU is still loaded???
:huh:
 
You need "Media Player Classic" & then you should configure it to use UVD...

Then only it will hardware decode HD content for you...

I think there was a tutorial here on TE to hardware accelerate x264 content...
 
anandkrishnantc said:
Hello,
I have installed HD 4770 on my system hoping I can watch HD videos. But no use. CPU shows 100% usage and the video is stuck...

I have installed the drivers and set the MB to make primary display adapter to PCIE.

My system CPU is 1.8 GHz and system mem is 1GB.

My Display card has 512MB DDR5 (as in specification)
Why my CPU is still loaded???
:huh:
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your CPU and RAM are simply bottlenecks for your GPU:P
and what about DDR5?:P
 
Thanks for the link. I have dowloaded the MPC from the link given in the page. Its working fine now. CPU is 24% and GPU is 8 - 10 %>

But here only with MPC its working...:-(

I think I cannot play games since there is no way to give GPU the load.
 
anandkrishnantc said:
Thanks for the link. I have dowloaded the MPC from the link given in the page. Its working fine now. CPU is 24% and GPU is 8 - 10 %>

But here only with MPC its working...:-(

I think I cannot play games since there is no way to give GPU the load.
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Hello Mate !

GPU is mainly meant for gaming only, you do not need to make any settings for offloading the task to gpu while gaming,
You can play games no doubt but your CPU & Ram will be a bottleneck for sure,

So try overclocking your cpu & add some more ram or consider upgrading both.
 
So far I havent played any games on my machine.. Let me try it.

Before buying the GPU, what I thought was all the graphics display load will be taken over by GPU from my CPU...
hmmmmm. I need to do some research to find out is there any way to isolate Graphical processing to my GPU and its onboard Memory only instead of sharing with main RAM.

How to know that GPU is still using MAIN RAM instead of its own memory?

any inputs from anybody on this? greatly appreciated.

regards,

Anand
 
anandkrishnantc said:
So far I havent played any games on my machine.. Let me try it.
Before buying the GPU, what I thought was all the graphics display load will be taken over by GPU from my CPU...
hmmmmm. I need to do some research to find out is there any way to isolate Graphical processing to my GPU and its onboard Memory only instead of sharing with main RAM.

How to know that GPU is still using MAIN RAM instead of its own memory?

any inputs from anybody on this? greatly appreciated.

regards,
Anand
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Graphics load has already been transferred to GPU and its video memory. if you are getting display and your monitor is connected to GPU's DVD/VGA/HDMI socket, you are using your GPU and video memory for graphics and not the onboard video adapter.

You need not worry about how GPU is going to use its RAM. When you launch a game, it will check the hardware and after detecting your GPU, will make use of it.

Your problem with movie playing was because hardware acceleration was not kicking up. It was a software issue (in this case read VLC). With games you are not going to have any such problem.
 
My CPU is overloaded even I use Corel Painter. While doing quick brush strokes, its not responding to my strokes for some seconds (with CPU 100%) and after that the rendering and display load is moved to GPU which shows around 10% loaded.

I guess, the load transfer to GPU itself if slow because of my slow CPU. But its around 2 Ghz. is it too slow for app like painter 11?

And one more thing, before installing Graphics card, I could watch a high resolution videio without any glitch. Now after installing GPU, the frames are getting stuck....

I am really disappointed with the graphics card option....
 
mate, the CPU has to support the GPU. Unless and otherwise the CPU is able to do that, you will face bottlenecks. What a man you are. Using a 1.8 proccy with 4770 GPU :S.

It doesnt mean you will face bottleneck only in games. You will face issues with HD movies too. Though the graphics part is offloaded by the CPU, the CPU has to be atleast minimally powerful to hold the GPU.

so change your CPU asap....
 
anfjavid said:
What a man you are. Using a 1.8 proccy with 4770 GPU :S.

Though the graphics part is offloaded by the CPU, the CPU has to be atleast minimally powerful to hold the GPU.

so change your CPU asap....
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I agree that CPU is slow. But why should it "hold" the GPU?? And what would be a nice (budget) option for me in MB and CPU for this GPU???

thanks
Anand
 
The least u can get is AMD X2 240 + Asus M2N68-AM for around 5.4-5.5k ........ IF u can spare more than that, then just tell ur budget so that we can suggest the best according to that !!!
 
anandkrishnantc said:
I agree that CPU is slow. But why should it "hold" the GPU?? And what would be a nice (budget) option for me in MB and CPU for this GPU???

thanks
Anand
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First of all your system is really low on Ram, 1gb wont cut ice for today's game,if gaming on Win XP minimum is 2GB, Also though A GPU handles most of the Graphics processing you still need at least a Dual core CPU clocked @ 2.6 Ghz Minimum,though an ideal CPU would be a Dual Core clocked @ 3 Ghz /3.2 Ghz which shall ensure there are no bottlenecks & gaming experience is smooth.

Try athlon 2 250 X2 from AMD, good for most of tasks.
 
Its time to update your rig. The combo suggested by harry AMD X2 240 + Asus M2N68-AM for around 5.4-5.5k is good enough and would last you at least a year or two :), before you start facing bottlenecks again.
 
ribokle said:
Its time to update your rig. The combo suggested by harry AMD X2 240 + Asus M2N68-AM for around 5.4-5.5k is good enough and would last you at least a year or two :), before you start facing bottlenecks again.
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ARe these okey? no idea about MB and CPU...
ASUS M2NMX-SE Motherboard
AMD X2 4400+ AM2 socket processor
 
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