Rainmeter in Windows 7

Anyone using rainmeter in his windows 7 setup ? I stumbled about an issue just a few minutes ago, it seems that rainmeter uses 2-3% cpu usage BUT causes the "system" process to use another 10~%.

If i close rainmeter the cpu usage instantly drops to 1~%. So far ive tried 4 different versions of rainmeter, old,new,beta and a 32bit one. And also ive tried closing one skin at a time but every skin i close just reduces the usage by 1-2%, so its not a single skin that causes the issue. Seems like the rainmeters code to me. Just to add, ive tried running rainmeter with admin privileges with no difference as well.

Anyone notice the same issue ? Running Windows 7 64bit atm.

 

Update: Seems like a common issue indeed, lets hope they will fix it soon enough or else its back to samurize

 

system monitoring always costs in terms of cpu and memory usage. Sometimes it is as high as 10%.

You always have to figure out if the pretty pictures a laptop/desktop system monitor give you is worth the overhead.

 

Not in Vista at least 15% cpu usage in total for a program is a bit too much, plus as you saw its an issue they are working at on, so its not working as intended

 

You always have to figure out if the pretty pictures a laptop/desktop system monitor give you is worth the overhead.

You are assuming that the 'issue' is solvable.

 

Im hoping yea And its not only the "images" since i dont have any, but im assuming you are talking in general so ill respond to that.

Having all your computer stats on the desktop is really useful for me, apart from the email checker which can check if you got emails instead of keeping a program open or checking your self (which im sure you know the use for that ) there are also cpu usage meters, network meters, process meters, hdd activity meters etc. So, in my case at least its really easy to pinpoint an issue (if i have one) just by looking my desktop since i always know how many process im running, if the ram usage is more than usual, or like in this case, strange cpu usage.

In other words you can keep an eye on your system "24/7" instead of waiting for it to slow so much till you actually figure out by yourself.

 

Rainmeter isn't causing hardly a sweat in terms of cpu/ram on my pc...



As you can see, only 28% ram used with all the other stuff I have running. Atm, Rainmeter using 6,000k

 

The issue is the cpu usage not the ram. Not sure if its a Windows 7 64bit issue and doesnt affect 32bit. Plus you dont use any 1000ms meters like cpu/network/hdd usage, without those the cpu usage drops pretty low on 64bit as well. The problem is that i had exactly the same config on my vista and it didnt use the cpu that much as it does in win7. But since its on the "todo" list to be fixed im just hoping they are going to find a solution in the near future.