[smurff33]

Firstly may i say im loving the app, only came across it 2 days ago :>

Couple of problems i have noticed, if i run the xbmc as as shell or ask xbmc to start when windows starts for what ever reason my cpu useage within xbmc goes upto 100% and video becomes slightly jerky and audio out of sync very slightly, if i load windows and then start xbmc my self i.e. click the xbmc tile on my start screen everything is fine, anyone else having similar problems?

I am wanting to run xbmc as shell but until i can over come these very minor problems i have to start manually for now :<

I am running windows 8 pro 32bit - Frodo Version 12 xbmc

Not sure what causes this. With Windows 8 hybrid shutdown enabled, I found it not necessary to run xbmc as a shell because it takes hardly 10 seconds to boot into Windows. What I have done is added xbmc to the metro ui and start it using the mce remote. This also ensures that my avr is initialized properly so that audio works fine.

In xbmc as shell mode, you could try by adding a small startup delay so that the sound card, network adapters and other devices are initialized properly before xbmc starts.

Thanks for quick reply, i will give your suggestions a try later when home, when you mention "Windows 8 hybrid shutdown enabled" what exactly do this mean?