Well, crap. This really didn't fix anything. My CPU usage is still hovering around 35% with the background on.
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Awesome. I'm going to go ahead and download the codecs, and hopefully this will help. As it is right now, it looks like it's using CPU first. This had initially seemed fishy to me, as a computer with 4GB of RAM really shouldn't be having the CPU usage jump up 20% from a program that supposedly uses the CPU minimally. I'll give the link a shot. Thanks.
What kind of codec would I need to acquire in order to utilize my ATI graphics card?
Well that is definitely interesting. I'll have to take a look into that. Thanks for the lead.
But 20% CPU activity increase on a dual core 2.1GHz?
I recently purchased and am currently using Deskscapes, but I've been left a little puzzled over something recently. When I use any of my .dream files as my background, my CPU usage jumps up about 20%. Granted, I have a fast computer, and this isn't too huge of a problem, but it's a bit disconcerting when it was my understanding that the program would be utilizing the GPU. Is there something wrong here? Is there a way to change this? Or is this just normal? Any help would be greatly appre