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Unfortunately I had to determine, which takes place with GIF animations and with clock action the unusually high CPU-Usage. Can examine you this please and commentate???
Is there a possibility of the improvement in the next servicepack???

I use opus pro 04 XE at windows XP SP2.

thank you

Greetings,

I have a low spec system and have no problem at all using Animated GIFs along with the Clock feature in Opus Pro 04.21.

Is it possible for you to attach a small ZIP file (IMP file with the Animated GIFs) to demonstrate your problem? If not, then can you elaborate more on how you have set up the actions.

thank you for the reaction, Steve! Unfortunately I cannot confirm your statement, although I have a top system! For illustration I attached to screenshot!

On use the clock-action I have similarly high worth!

Am I reading your Task Manager correctly? OPUS is using 50% while your animated GIF is running, and this is 269MB?

When I first start my computer, with nothing running, I have 99% of 512MB RAM available. No matter what I run there after, when I close everything, the available RAM drops to 85%, so software tends to grab, but not release RAM memory.

Are you having problems seeing the animated GIF, or is this just an observation about resources when running OPUS?

That is correctly, only opus uses 50% CPU usage with an animated GIF! Naturally I have still different programs in the background to run, but those do not stress with cpu. I have 1 GB RAM and a 3 GHz fast Intel processor. This CPU usage is actually rather typical for videorendering. Therefore I do not understand that also! Gifs are to be seen correct and run also problem-free, only the high cpu-usage find very strange I!!! The same applies to the "clock action"!

Does no other user have similar experiences?

Torsten has a dual CPU system, which is why Opus is only using 50%. Normally it would use near enough 100%. But, there's absolutely no problem with this, and it doesn't mean that Opus is struggling on your system, and won't normally affect other applications performance either.

Dave

If I use gif animations with mediator the cpu-usage is many smaller!
What is the problem?

Hi Torsten,
Are you actually having a problem with Opus??? -- you haven't said.

In Task Manager -- my P4/3.2 Ghz computer shows 50% load with your pub, but why does it matter? -- if the pub is running correctly, it doesn't matter what the cpu load is.

cheers

Paul

The high cpu usage has been noticed by many including me over several versions of Opus in the past couple of years. DW maintains that this is normal. It does not appear to affect the presentation or anything else. I suspect but don't know for sure that Opus is 'keeping the cpu busy' so that there is plenty of power in reserve for when it really needs to crunch. In the past all sorts of things would make the cpu go high including little things like alpha animations, timelines running, and the like.

My experience may have no relevance to your problem, but on the chance that it does, this is what happened.

I recently encountered this in a couple of Pro 04 pubs. I've never had it before. It only happened in preview and had no effect on running the published pub.

After a couple of frustrating days, I discovered what the problem was. Me!

In the course of my development I frequently switch between script and no-script actions. Sometimes I'll use a non-script action to replace a script action. (This might seem strange to some of you, but it's just the way I work.)

Anyway, I discovered that sometimes I had left some no longer wanted pieces of script lying around. When I attempted to preview these garbage pieces of script caused the computer to hang, while it looked like it was still processing, and my meter showed 100% of cpu usage. I once let in "run" for more than 3 hours.

I had to break out using Task Manager. This meant that I did not receive any error reports that might have alerted me to the problem.

I decided to analyse EVERY action in my pub, and eventually found the culprit. I removed them and no further problems.

Incidentally, I don't worry about cpu usage unless I'm having an unresolved problem, and even then, it does not give much meaningful info.

Loves user and coworker of digitalworkshop,
I do not have a problem with Opus. It is the best author system of the world, I love Opus

I find it only unfortunate the fact that a small animation the processor so loaded and wanted to know whether that is really normal! My programs provided with Opus always function! Perhaps can one work however on this cpu-usage and reduce the "problem" in the next patch or in the next version Thank you for those answer and on digitalworkshop for the great author system "opus"!!!!