ATI sushi

[amheck]

Everyone once in a while I'm come to my PC and notice everything is extremely slow. Scrolling web pages is almost halted to a crawl. When I look at my task bar, I'll notice a box for ATI Sushi engine, and when I go to click on it to close it, it disappears, and then everything is back to normal. This isn't a total show stopper, but I'd like to understand what this is and why it's doing what it's doing.

I have installed a few new ATI screensavers recently and I'm guessing it something to do with that.

TIA,
Aaron

 

[Todd33]

Spyware? Did you google it?

 

[amheck]

I did yahoo it and came back with a few matches, but nothing complete. It seems to be some sort of engine for making games or working with the ATI demos. Not sure why it randomly pops up and slows down my computer.

MS Spyware doesn't find anything on my system.

 

[kylebisme]

Sushi is Ati's demo engine, and it is used for some of their screensavers.

 

[impemonk]

ati sushi is a type of dish you can eat if your stomach can handle raw seafood.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: TheSnowman
Sushi is Ati's demo engine, and it is used for some of their screensavers.

I found that it occasionally (more often than not) didn't terminate properly upon exiting, so I stopped using them. That and having my computer produce more heat while "idle" made zero sense to me.

- M4H

 

[zakee00]

Originally posted by: TheSnowman
Sushi is Ati's demo engine, and it is used for some of their screensavers.

 

[amheck]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: TheSnowman
Sushi is Ati's demo engine, and it is used for some of their screensavers.

I found that it occasionally (more often than not) didn't terminate properly upon exiting, so I stopped using them. That and having my computer produce more heat while "idle" made zero sense to me.

- M4H

You know, I never thought of it like that. I opened the CPU monitor in Windows and then started a few of the ATI screensavers and saw that it was maxing out my CPU, too. Interesting. They are nice looking, but pretty CPU and GPU intensive.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: amheck

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: TheSnowman
Sushi is Ati's demo engine, and it is used for some of their screensavers.

I found that it occasionally (more often than not) didn't terminate properly upon exiting, so I stopped using them. That and having my computer produce more heat while "idle" made zero sense to me.

- M4H

You know, I never thought of it like that. I opened the CPU monitor in Windows and then started a few of the ATI screensavers and saw that it was maxing out my CPU, too. Interesting. They are nice looking, but pretty CPU and GPU intensive.

Those pretty graphics just don't draw themselves, y'know.

- M4H