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We are considering adding animation support in TKaraoke. This is useful on a few cases: 1. Animate the next song name near the end of the current song (on the list of requested features) 2. Animate the random score given to the current karaoker near the end of the current song (on the list of requested features). Adding animation will be cool for many users but will come with some overhead on your PC. What we want to know is "can your PC handle the animation?" You can download a sample app that does the animation and try to run it on the PC you installed TKaraoke. When running this application, pay attention to: 1. Is there any glitch in the animation? (pause, delay, etc.) 2. How much CPU usage is required by this app? (check via Task Manager). Please post back your result. Note that you can exit this animation app by right-click it on the task bar and select Close. Sample screenshot showing the next song name: Snapshot 1:  Snapshot 2: 
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Do I need to uninstall the previous version? Thank you
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No, this is just a test program - not TKaraoke.
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K. - Thanx.
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I am running Dual Core 2.66Ghz CPU with 4Gigs Ram.
Average CPU is a little below 45% running both TKaraoke and the Test Program (Peak @57%)
Tkaraoke itself average about 18% CPU time (peak @33%)
The test program seems to take fairly long to load (understandable looking at the size @37.7 Mb).Question:Are you going to implement this to display both on the PC/Laptop and the TV (Secondary Screen)? Suggestions:Also, the word "Next" or "Next Song" (Static) would be nice. You could also implement the feature with the ability for the operator to turn it on and off.
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Is this a desktop or laptop? This is mainly for the video window (secondary screen) and there will be an option to turn it off. What CPU % if you run the Test App by itself (w/o running TKaraoke)?
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This is a Desktop PC. Test App - Took 50% CPU time to load and running consistently between 20-26%. Any idea when this feature will be available? - I am going to help a friend KJ his son's weeding 11/14/09 and very anxious to know if the feature will be available by then.Regards,
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Desktop C2Q Q6600 2.4Ghz and 4GB RAM w/Win7 64bit dual screen setup.
test file takes about 4-5secs to load and uses <14% CPU, hovering around 8-10%. Tkaraoke program only peaks at 11% CPU usage on this system.
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DavidT wrote:This is a Desktop PC.
Test App - Took 50% CPU time to load and running consistently between 20-26%.
Any idea when this feature will be available? - I am going to help a friend KJ his son's weeding 11/14/09 and very anxious to know if the feature will be available by then.
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Should be doable by that date unless we run into isues.
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wanker wrote:Desktop C2Q Q6600 2.4Ghz and 4GB RAM w/Win7 64bit dual screen setup.
test file takes about 4-5secs to load and uses <14% CPU, hovering around 8-10%. Tkaraoke program only peaks at 11% CPU usage on this system.
Can you guy check if the load time reduces after the the first run? Download the exe to a folder on your hard drive and run. Then quit and run again. The first time ever run will take longer because it will need to unpack data on the fly. The subsequent runs should be faster though. 4-5secs on every run is pretty bad.
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Consistenly it took me longer than 7 seconds to load event after the 4th starts. Wanker's system may load faster because WIN 7/64bit and I am still running under WIN XP Pro/32bit.
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7 seconds is pretty long. We'll have to do some optimization to reduce this.
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1st launch took 5secs, every time after the 1st took 4 secs (out of 15 runs, some are 3secs but most are 4 secs).
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