Hello,
I recently installed the latest wide release of Eden (i.e. from website, not a nightly build) under Windows 7 on the latest Mac Mini hardware (2GHz i7 Quad, Intel HD3000 Graphics, 10GB RAM).
Essentially, any UI navigation animation that requires loading up a large image is choppy. In the Aeon Nox skin this includes switching between the main sections on the home screen, or within poster walls if I enable Fanart. The same poster wall with Fanart disabled navigates smoothly. Interestingly, if I cycle between a small subset of the main menu items, it's also perfectly smooth. It's almost as if it can cache 2-3 of these and load them immediately. If I scroll through the menu continually in one direction, though, I get the choppy behavior.
I know the video card isn't the greatest, but it's handling full-bitrate Blu-Ray rips just fine. It's just the UI that seems choppy. I wouldn't have thought a static image would trip it up, especially with so much RAM available (only about 2GB used out of 10GB).
Is there anything I can look at to try to figure out what's going on or squeeze out some extra performance? I disabled the Fullscreen in a Window option since I read that can cause problems, but had no luck. I also tried Dirty Regions and disabling all add-ons (which weren't many since it was a fresh install) and extra features. The graphics hardware drivers are set to performance. I can't figure out why it's not cooperating.
I started over in the Aeon Nox forum, but it sounds like it might be OS/Device specific since it appears to work just fine on lesser hardware and I was hoping someone here might have some insight. A link to the original thread is below.
Thanks!
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=139007
I recently installed the latest wide release of Eden (i.e. from website, not a nightly build) under Windows 7 on the latest Mac Mini hardware (2GHz i7 Quad, Intel HD3000 Graphics, 10GB RAM).
Essentially, any UI navigation animation that requires loading up a large image is choppy. In the Aeon Nox skin this includes switching between the main sections on the home screen, or within poster walls if I enable Fanart. The same poster wall with Fanart disabled navigates smoothly. Interestingly, if I cycle between a small subset of the main menu items, it's also perfectly smooth. It's almost as if it can cache 2-3 of these and load them immediately. If I scroll through the menu continually in one direction, though, I get the choppy behavior.
I know the video card isn't the greatest, but it's handling full-bitrate Blu-Ray rips just fine. It's just the UI that seems choppy. I wouldn't have thought a static image would trip it up, especially with so much RAM available (only about 2GB used out of 10GB).
Is there anything I can look at to try to figure out what's going on or squeeze out some extra performance? I disabled the Fullscreen in a Window option since I read that can cause problems, but had no luck. I also tried Dirty Regions and disabling all add-ons (which weren't many since it was a fresh install) and extra features. The graphics hardware drivers are set to performance. I can't figure out why it's not cooperating.
I started over in the Aeon Nox forum, but it sounds like it might be OS/Device specific since it appears to work just fine on lesser hardware and I was hoping someone here might have some insight. A link to the original thread is below.
Thanks!
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=139007