High CPU usage

[mountainman38]

I found your delightful program from an Internet search, and have been enjoying it for a couple of days now. I'm not sure I'll keep using it, though, because of the demands it puts on my CPU.

I'm running Windows 7 with 4 gigs of RAM and dual core 4200+ processors, and this program consistently runs at about 65-75% CPU usage when the screen saver is active.

I've noticed this seems to be worse when it's snowing, which would indicate that the animation is taking a lot of processor power.

I have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player installed, so I don't think that's the problem.

I like to let my computer idle when it's in screensaver mode, so if I can't figure out a way to reduce the CPU usage I'll have to use another screensaver.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

[Mallorca]

Hi,
you are not alone with this problem and there are a lot of posts here. Very often it is helpfull to use the search function in a forum:
see on top on right end. The input "cpu usage" will show you all posts about this topic.
So very often we can save a lot of time to answering questions or to help by problems or suggestions.
Werner

[par]

Dear Mountain Man, this is true, YoWindow consumes a lot of processor power.
Flash technology does not utilize GPU resources so far.
That is why all the load is put on CPU.
I hope Adobe will teach Flash to use Graphial Processor some day and YoWindow will run much faster and less CPU hungry.

By the way you can run YoWindow as a regular application to check the weather time to time.

[mountainman38]

Thanks for the help.

While this is a cool application, I'm decided to use something else as my screen saver due to the heavy system load.

[mark2010]

Hi,
You have just properly noticed that high CPU load is while snowing. It seems to me that snowflakes are visually too big. I think it would be better either visually or for our processors to diminish the snowflakes and will not be a problem for Pasha , theremore most of us has probably the dual-core processors.
Marek