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O.P. RE: My webcam is using a lot of CPU
There's an issue that might be related to this one. Whenever I start a WLM video call with one of my contacts, there are two video screens in the chat window: the upper one showing my contact's video stream, and the lower one showing my video. The issue is that the lower screen will sometimes display my video, but most other times it'll display a webcam logo with a red cross on it. I've been unable to fix this issue and it seems the appearance of this logo instead of my actual video is random. The relation with this issue posted here is that when my video is displayed CPU usage jumps to almost 100%, but when the logo is displayed instead of my video CPU usage is normal (at most 20%).
NOTE: My system specs are P4 3.06GHz, 2Gb RAM. However I never had this issue before so I don't think it is specs related.
I might try a previous driver. I manually optimized my system for minimum resource waste, disabled all unnecessary services, startup options, etc., and no, when I'm in a webcam session I'm not using any other program, so CPU is only dedicated to the video call. And before anyone asks, my system is malware free.
This post was edited on 03-28-2011 at 06:45 PM by alegator.
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