Acer Revo R3610 ?

Restricted memory is unlikely to be the reason for this. It's more likely to be disk speed and the CPU overhead of processing all the graphics. Some of the heavier skins do make Atom processors sweat a bit.

JR

dsimages Wrote:Has anyone tried installing 4gb of ram on a 64bit install? I have a 3610 running dharma with skin Night ontop of win7 64bit. I have all extras/eye candy disable in win7 and it still seems to be abit sluggish at times. File playback is flawless, just having interface delay.

Try dds fanart.

Normal fanart takes about 1/2 sec or 1 sec to load on my Revo 3610. Which makes scrolling seem a little sluggish.

dds fanart makes it instant, literally no delay at all.

voochi Wrote:Try dds fanart.

A little something like this?


Pulled this off of the wiki for anyone who wants to know. I will give this a shot..
Thanks for the heads up.

dsimages Wrote:A little something like this?

PHP Code:

<advancedsettings>
  <useddsfanart>true</useddsfanart>
</advancedsettings> 


Pulled this off of the wiki for anyone who wants to know. I will give this a shot..
Thanks for the heads up.

Yes there is a big thread with all the information but basically you need to create the advancedsettings.xml (if you havent created it already) and add those lines.

In future XBMC will then create a dds version of each fanart that has been displayed on screen. It takes a couple of minutes for each one because the Atom processor is so slow. But over time as you browse the library it will gradually create them all.

If you want to do it quicker you can batch convert them using some utility.

On the latest nightlies I have noticed a huge speed increase on my Revo. Is this due to dds fanart? I've not enabled the dirty regions or whatever the new feature is.

I created the advancedsettings.xml but no go on creating .dds files inside my media folders.

I have read about dirty regions and will probably move on to a nightly if I cant get .dds to work.

Any insight as to why .dds is not working? My xml file looks my post above..

Enable debug logging and check the log to make sure your advancedsettings.xml is being processed correctly. See http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Log_File for details.

JR

enabling ddsfanart made a HUGE difference in browsing the library on my Revo 1600.

Does the DDS fanart work with the nightlies?

Roelio Wrote:Haha good work I use a external power supply yes. I myself just like to hobby so that's why I tried to make a new passive cooler. Also I was hoping that that alone would be enough to cool the CPU/GPU. to bad the air flow was to low when it was standing horizontal.

Looking forward to some pictures.

OK, finally sorted it.



I simply spliced into the power lead to provide a 12v feed to the fan using a 5W 100 Ohm drop resistor. The fan is a cheapie 120mm one, but is fairly quiet even at 12V.

I can now use my REVO in peace with a slight but constant fan hum.

Temp readings using Speedfan 3.44

Idle
GPU 39C
CPU 44C
Rem 2 31C

Full load
GPU 42C
CPU 50C
Rem 2 32C

ON hotter days
Full load
GPU 44C
CPU 56C
Rem 2 36C

Of course I now have to remember to unplug otherwise the fan keeps running after shutdown. With the original tiny fan the REVO became unusable - the fan kept whooshing up and down all the time.