Problems with Hoster audio and graphics and MP3's

[ddouglass]

At start of play this would be normal as it is setting up and filling buffer's with data at that point in the process.
Mark left one step out to get to the process, but I think you understand what he is looking for since you know how to get to the Tesk Manager. Look on the Processes tab and list all the processes running. Be sure to have Hoster open when you do.
I get the same thing (100% on processor)you get on my test (home computer) but unlike a show computer I have a lot going on on this computer that I can't turn off. Most of the time though I do not see/hear any glitches. Neither of our show computers do this, but I don't know how high they go as I have never tested it. If it does start happening again on me though I have a single disc CDG player mounted in my equipment rack as a back-up.
I will tell you this though, roughly 95% of the sync problems we have troubleshot in the forums since 4.00 came out have been laptops. This is mostly due to the fact that laptops have an on-board video card and use shared memory from the processor's RAM rather than having dedicated memory on the card itself. Unfortunately there is nothing that can be done to change that. What can be changed though is the amount of processes that the processor has to deal with.