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Originally posted by Lasereth
it's just the fact that the Real programs make computers slow.
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I can assure you that is not the case. I've got RealPlayer running right now and a quick look at taskmanager shows that it is utilizing 0% CPU (I'm currently running my PIII-500 mhz Laptop running WinXP).
If when running RealPlayer you notice your system getting slow- it isn't the player- it is that you have a slow computer.
A word to the wise- if you do choose to install RP10 to see if I am full of shit, take note of its performance characteristics after running it a few times- for one, the player does a lot of initialization tasks the first time it runs, and two, on WinXP the OS preloads parts of the application after you run it a few times. If you compare a freshly installed RealPlayer to the media player you use all the time you won't be getting an apples to apples test.
In my next installment I'll talk about the realsched.exe background process and I'll talk about what (from an annoyance standpoint) makes RP10 different than all previous products.
And finally, a comment about RealAlternative: the program is using the Helix Platform (our open source/cross platform media engine) just like the RealPlayer so for those of you who plan to "never use Real again" you are using it now. Also, I decided to try it before I bashed it- installing the program broke RP10 in such a way that even an RP10 re-install didn't work. I had to uninstall RealAlternative and THEN reinstall RP10 to get it working again. Spare me the jokes about that being a feature, and I'll spare you the jokes about your mother.
