2015-05-03, 08:23
So yeah, I'm having this issue for a few weeks now and I finally found the cause of it (I think).
First off my set-up, I have 2 monitors, my regular working monitor and a smaller one (1440x900). The smaller one is usually running Kodi with videos, streams, music, whatever. Videos and streams play perfectly fine, however when listening to music I get a huge performance hit after a while (max 1 hour mostly). Kodi completely slows down, it seem's like it's getting caught in a loop or whatever, it's choppy, and it continues to slow down until I shut Kodi down and restart (then it's fine until it starts again). It even seems to slow down my PC by quite a bit.
This is when listening to PartyMode as well as "normal" listening to Albums or whatever, so it doesn't seem to be related to that.
Also I'm running Helix on Windows 8 (pro) and this happens on both the stable and beta version of the skin.
So yesterday it came to my mind that this issue pretty much started when I switched to Titan. So I used Metropolis again for a few hours and had no issues at all. I tried getting the options as close to another as possible (Visualization - DirectX Spectrum - turned on, artist slideshow background and background animated), to have somewhat of a testing environment. After ~8h with no issue I decided to test my theory and switched back to Titan, and again after about an hour I get this performance hit.
I've tried switching back to Metropolis while I had the slowdown, but it didn't appear to have done much (not sure about that since when I could finally open the shut-down menu it seemed to be faster again but I was too fast clicking on quit...), so it seems Kodi gets slowed down completely.
The first thought would be that my PC just couldn't handle it, but since it's running fine until a certain time and the fact that I have a reasonably powerful PC, I wouldn't bet on that (especially considering it's running fine on Metropolis and Confluence).
I tried narrowing down the problem (music I listened to, file format, tags), but it doesn't appear to have a specific reason. Also I don't always see when it's happening (since I don't always watch my second screen). In addition to say is that I'm mostly playing games on my main screen, though I'm not sure this is related (again: it worked with Metropolis/Confluence). Soo yeah... don't know what to say any-more, maybe anyone has an idea or the same issue...
First off my set-up, I have 2 monitors, my regular working monitor and a smaller one (1440x900). The smaller one is usually running Kodi with videos, streams, music, whatever. Videos and streams play perfectly fine, however when listening to music I get a huge performance hit after a while (max 1 hour mostly). Kodi completely slows down, it seem's like it's getting caught in a loop or whatever, it's choppy, and it continues to slow down until I shut Kodi down and restart (then it's fine until it starts again). It even seems to slow down my PC by quite a bit.
This is when listening to PartyMode as well as "normal" listening to Albums or whatever, so it doesn't seem to be related to that.
Also I'm running Helix on Windows 8 (pro) and this happens on both the stable and beta version of the skin.
So yesterday it came to my mind that this issue pretty much started when I switched to Titan. So I used Metropolis again for a few hours and had no issues at all. I tried getting the options as close to another as possible (Visualization - DirectX Spectrum - turned on, artist slideshow background and background animated), to have somewhat of a testing environment. After ~8h with no issue I decided to test my theory and switched back to Titan, and again after about an hour I get this performance hit.
I've tried switching back to Metropolis while I had the slowdown, but it didn't appear to have done much (not sure about that since when I could finally open the shut-down menu it seemed to be faster again but I was too fast clicking on quit...), so it seems Kodi gets slowed down completely.
The first thought would be that my PC just couldn't handle it, but since it's running fine until a certain time and the fact that I have a reasonably powerful PC, I wouldn't bet on that (especially considering it's running fine on Metropolis and Confluence).
I tried narrowing down the problem (music I listened to, file format, tags), but it doesn't appear to have a specific reason. Also I don't always see when it's happening (since I don't always watch my second screen). In addition to say is that I'm mostly playing games on my main screen, though I'm not sure this is related (again: it worked with Metropolis/Confluence). Soo yeah... don't know what to say any-more, maybe anyone has an idea or the same issue...
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