lostinlodos
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I've noticed over the last few days that when running 720p and 1080p video (but not 1660p or anything lower than 720p) in VLC player, my explorer.exe and com controller both exceed 2gb of ram each even after I close out VLC.
Explorer slows to a full halt I'm unable to shut-down and restart either of the processes, with "end process" or "end process tree".
I've tried just clicking on the open explorer window a few times to force a lag crash and clicked on "check for a solution and restart"; which worked once but not the other times.
The only thing I've downloaded/installed in the last few days was a few updates for microsoft office, and a windows x64 security update but the later was AFTER the issues started happening.
Same issue on identical base systems, one Vista Home Premium x64, one Vista Ultimate x64.
Phenom II x4 HPs with 7Gig ram, 512mb video cards, and over 2 terabytes of 7200 and 10000rpm drive space, non-raid.
Issue occurs ONLY on exactly 720p-1080p video, no issues below that level (standard, portable, or ED video), or above (HVD, HR Home Cinima, TrueHi).
Problems regardless of codecs and containers, but the usage is higher on MKV h26x video and AVI h26x and DivX and lower on TS MPEG4 and HD-DVD MPEG4 files. Always over 1Gb each of the two processes.
Any idea what's going on?
I understand the "use it all" mentality to memory but single processes using gigabytes of memory for no (known) reason, refusing to release that memory, refusing to close out and restart, and slowing the system and killing stability doesn't fit my expectation of quality use of resources.
Very confused.
Explorer slows to a full halt I'm unable to shut-down and restart either of the processes, with "end process" or "end process tree".
I've tried just clicking on the open explorer window a few times to force a lag crash and clicked on "check for a solution and restart"; which worked once but not the other times.
The only thing I've downloaded/installed in the last few days was a few updates for microsoft office, and a windows x64 security update but the later was AFTER the issues started happening.
Same issue on identical base systems, one Vista Home Premium x64, one Vista Ultimate x64.
Phenom II x4 HPs with 7Gig ram, 512mb video cards, and over 2 terabytes of 7200 and 10000rpm drive space, non-raid.
Issue occurs ONLY on exactly 720p-1080p video, no issues below that level (standard, portable, or ED video), or above (HVD, HR Home Cinima, TrueHi).
Problems regardless of codecs and containers, but the usage is higher on MKV h26x video and AVI h26x and DivX and lower on TS MPEG4 and HD-DVD MPEG4 files. Always over 1Gb each of the two processes.
Any idea what's going on?
I understand the "use it all" mentality to memory but single processes using gigabytes of memory for no (known) reason, refusing to release that memory, refusing to close out and restart, and slowing the system and killing stability doesn't fit my expectation of quality use of resources.
Very confused.