garageCube

[morph]

I have 2 laptops running M8

One is an old MacBoook Pro 3,1 (2.4ghz Core 2 duo, 4gb ram, geforce 8600M GT, regular HDD) running Leopard with Modul8 2.6.1. This unit plays atleast 2-3 layers of HD (1280x720) content mixed with SD, stills, etc just fine.

The other is a MacBoook Pro 6,2 (2.4ghz Core i5, 8gb ram, geforce GT 330m, 240gb SSD) running Mountain Lion with Modul8 2.6.5 (and 2.7). As soon as I try to play more than 1 layer of 1280x720 content the framerate chokes, even though the system monitor on my machine says I still have plenty of spare CPU and RAM.

The clips are all PhotoJpeg @ 75% and are the exact same clips on both machines, can anyone tell me how I can fix this or what the issue is??

Cheers

Morph

[ilan]

Are you sure you are not running off of the Intel card? Check your energy saver settings in the System prefs.

[morph]

OK have switched that option off but wouldn't have thought it would effect performance when my laptop is plugged in.

Thanks for the tip and will let you know how I go