What is my bottleneck?

[ensign_lee]

Specs:

CPU: i5-2500k, overlocked to 4.2 at 1.284V
Mobo: P67 UD4 Gigabyte
RAM: 8GB G Skill Ripjaws X CL8 1600
SSD: Corsair C300
HDD: 500GB Western Digital Caviar Blue, 1.5 TB Samsung, 2TB Samsung
GPU: (2) ATI 6970 Crossfired

And yet...whenever I watch movies using windows media player, or even when I use the visualizer (CTRL + T) in iTunes, I constantly get this message from windows:

"Do you want to change the color scheme to improve performance?" Exactly like this: http://ma.wishmesh.com/wp-content/u...e-the-color-scheme-to-improve-performance.png

According to windows task manager, I'm using 4.79 GB of memory since I just closed out of Starcraft 2 a second ago, but 4.67/8 still seems like nowhere near capacity.

Where could my bottleneck be occurring? I don't get it.?

 

[trollolo]

no way there's a bottleneck, just turn off the windows system notifications. also lol at those D: all over the place

 

[beginner99]

I get that message now and then too when alt+tabing out of Bad Company 2. Somekind of windows or GPU driver issue. But seriously, you can just ignore it.

 

[NostaSeronx]

Your CPU is the bottleneck

No fixes as of now but you'll probably solve the bottleneck in 2 or 3 years

 

[ensign_lee]

I'd be content to ignore but but that sometimes, it automatically changes to windows 7 basic ANYWAY, without my input. :/

 

[gevorg]

Try running WEI, maybe windows needs to "update" its info on your PC capabilities.

 

[toyota]

I get one of those every now and then too but I just choose keep current scheme and it never changes any of my settings.

 

[skipsneeky2]

I think its driver related cause i got tons of those every day it seemed like on my gtx560.

Then i plugged in my old 9800gtx and some 266.58 drivers....they vanished....gtx560 goes back in they came back...

 

[E6700]

I ran into that a couples times too,so you're not alone.

 

[ensign_lee]

Try running WEI, maybe windows needs to "update" its info on your PC capabilities.

hmm, saw that a few other places as well as a recommandation. Will try and get back to everyone.

Edit: lol, 7.4 with my SATA III SSD being the WEI bottleneck. hahaha

 

[ensign_lee]

Hmm, interesting note, according to the WEI, I am running DirectX10, but according to dxdiag, I am running DirectX11.

Could this be the cause of the problem? And how would I fix it if si?

 

[ensign_lee]

Oh, one important piece of information I seem to have left out.

Whenever Windows would turn it self back to basic without my authorization, it was usually when I was watching movies in VLC media player. And I would notice tons of stuttering in the process - several skipped frames, etc.

Wasn't as big of a problem once I switched to Windows Media Player, though I now I get this message *requesting* that I change to windows 7 basic instead of the one *telling me* that it had changed to windows 7 basic.

 

[trollolo]

don't use VLC, as the power of a thousand ponies commands you to stop using that thrown together mish mosh of unsettling applesauce

 

[Iron Wolf]

Only time I see that message is sometimes when I exit WoW. It's odd that it never seems to remember my preference, even though the box is checked.

When I launch AoE3, I get the message "Your color scheme is incompatible with this program" and it changes to Windows Basic. It changes back to Aero within a few seconds after I exit the game though.

 

[sm625]

Your two video cards must be tricking windoze into thinking they are each eating up 2GB of RAM or some outrageous value. Some kind of shadow copy? I thought that was removed a long time ago but maybe it is an option that you have enabled.

 

[toyota]

Your two video cards must be tricking windoze into thinking they are each eating up 2GB of RAM or some outrageous value. Some kind of shadow copy? I thought that was removed a long time ago but maybe it is an option that you have enabled.

I have gotten that same message with a gtx260, 8600gt, and gtx570 with 4 to 8gb of system ram so that cant be it.

 

[Ferzerp]

I get those from time to time when playing a game on the 2560x1600 monitor while watching TV through media center on the 1920x1080 attached TV at the same time.

(single GTX 480)