Sage TV Client Menus Very slow - solution

[lbouthillier]

I've got SageTV server running on a new machine - P4 3.2GHz, 1GB RAM, etc. Works great - I'm very impressed with this product!

I'm trying SageTV Client on an older machine - P3 800MHz, 512MB RAM over wireless 802.11g. Video performance is fine - it plays full screen, usually no hiccups, audio and video in sync. But, if I do anything that calls up a menu or program guide, the response time is about 10-15 seconds. While the menu appears, it does not respond to mouse rollovers etc, but I can move the cursor over the correct item and click and then wait for it to respond.

This occurs whether I'm at full-screen or in a 640x480 window. My client machine is running 1152x824 at 24bit color. The graphics adaptor is on the motherboard (dell), Intel 815 with 4MB VRAM...

Ahhh....problem identified, but I'll still post this in case it's useful info to anyone else... If I change my video settings to 1024x768 24bit, the performance increases a great deal - it becomes usable: not zippy, but usable. Solution - upgrade my video card to something with more power than a weed-whacker!