ePSXe CPU usage?

[dkzerov]

Does epsxe always use 100% of cpu or do i need a faster processor/whatever
Its affecting my downloads..

[The Joker]

what is the speed of your processor?

[dkzerov]

Oh sorry...
Intel pentium 4. So says the sticker...

Intel pentium 4 2.40GHz
512 RAM (T.T)

[Evans]

It runs fullspeed on a P3 with half as much RAM.

Make sure you're not running too much, though, seeing as you don't have a lot of RAM.

And you're, what, torrenting?

[Inferno.]

When I run ePSXe I always have firefox open at the same time, my PSX games play perfectly. I have a Pentium 4 - 3GHz and 512mb ram.

[SegNin]

ePSXe ran on my old Win98SE, P III, 600 MHz, 128 MB, computer at full speed, mostly, even when I ran BitComet in the background.

But I only downloaded 1 or 2 torrents at a time.

[Evans]

If he's using Azureus, that resources hog, it's a different story...

[dkzerov]

Im running utorrent and flashget (2 downloads each).
Running more than 3 torrents could clog up my ports or something but thats a different story.

Im using ePSXe 1.6.0 BTW

Most of the time i have opera running in the background, AVG, 3 yahoo widgets, deamon tools and um..

[The Joker]

close opera, Y! widgets and avg. and either uT! or flashget.

[dkzerov]

isnt that a bit extreme...
i thought anti virus should be always on.

[SegNin]

Leave AVG on.

I doubt it's the problem.

[Evans]

ePSXe itself shouldn't be using 100% of the CPU. Dunno what to tell you.

As for the rest, well, when you run all of those, except for ePSXe, what is your RAM usage?

[dkzerov]

about 60-75% of RAM is used but ePSXe only increases it by 2%.
CPU usage is about 5% when idle/everything is minimized

This is all according to my widgets but i double checked it with Task Manager.

[Evans]

about 60-75% of RAM is used but ePSXe only increases it by 2%.
CPU usage is about 5% when idle/everything is minimized

This is all according to my widgets but i double checked it with Task Manager.

Yeah, you could kill a few apps. Wouldn't hurt.

[SegNin]

I'm checking the log you posted.

So far, I see 2 problem areas:

C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Widgets\YahooWidgetEngine.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Widgets\YahooWidgetEngine.exe
C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Widgets\YahooWidgetEngine.exe
C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Widgets\YahooWidgetEngine.exe

I'm fairly certain you shouldn't have 4 instances of the same process running.

Try shutting down 3 of them.
Or shutting down all 4, then restarting Widgets, if that's possible.

Also this:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wscntfy.exe

That's Windows Security Center, which really isn't necessary:
http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/pr...cntfy.exe.html

To disable it, read this:
http://tweakhound.com/xp/securitycenter/index.htm