Shoutbox

hey guys.. i've got a problem...

i recently started using floating contacts... just for convenience you know... 125 contacts is not easy too look though >.< i had it running and then decided to play dance dance revolution... something i havn't done in awhile.... but it lagged like crazy! the graphics were very bad, choppy and would lag for 1 sec, then go then lag then go again... i couldn't figure out what was wrong until i turned off floating contacts.. and then it went fine... i've been having a few problems with other games as well... i'm not sure if its attributed to this feature though. DDR is a very cpu intensive game... but i don't see how floating contacts could make the game lag SO much! is there a conflict or something? here's my dxdiag output.

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System Information
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Time of this report: 3/6/2005, 14:31:45
Machine name: MATTHEW
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: D850MV
System Model: MV85010A
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.40GHz
Memory: 640MB RAM
Page File: 179MB used, 1382MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode

plz help me out guys =/

Edit by WDZ: Placed the rest of the info in attached text file.

There have been other reports similar to this, maybe you should just turn off msn when playing games or anything alike, I can't think of any suggestions right now, can't see why it would lag the games and mess up the graphics though...

Reduce the amount of contacts on the desktop?

u had all of them set as floating contacts? wow

id say that was just using to much system memory, try just using it for your favoitite people, just best friends or who every u tlk to the most

or try this new skin by jase, it lets u have an invisble contact list

http://forum.mess.be/index.php?showtopic=5772&hl=

it might be to with it trying to constantly refresh all those contact squares... for example, with name changes etc.

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Machine name: MATTHEW

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I wouldnt suggest using a large number of desktop contacts, i tested it out and found that with 9 desktop contacts, the memory usage by msn itself rose from ~11000 to ~30000