HUD solutions?
Saturday, June 14, 2008 by tylerisfat | Discussion: ObjectDock
i love having all the info i need in a convenient, easy to see way. i have to have all the time, date, cpu, weather, battery... and i hate icon's on my desktop.
for a while i used a double bar of RK Launcher, but i've recently made the switch to object dock and avedesk for my itunes control. my question is, does anyone have a better way to do what i want? i have screenshots below. i like how it looks, the simpleness (especially the awesome tabbed dock for all app launching) but object dock is up to anywhere from 18-30 megs, and i read things on here saying it runs at 4 megs, so i must have too much going on. opinions?
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HG_Eliminator
Reply #2 Saturday, June 14, 2008 6:22 AM
Reply #2 Saturday, June 14, 2008 6:22 AM
what OS and what docklets are you running? you may be running a docklet that may be hogging up the resources. I would try removing the docklets one at a time until you find the one that is being greedy with the memory. some docklets are not up to date for current OS styles and Builds/ service pack's. example some are not up dateded to work well on vista if at all and fewer are ready for 64 bit. it may be as simple as a image eating up resources in the docklet.
some docklets used BMP files instead of more compressed image types. so the image loaded takes more ram. these are but a few of the variables to look in to. let me know what you find.
some docklets used BMP files instead of more compressed image types. so the image loaded takes more ram. these are but a few of the variables to look in to. let me know what you find.
tylerisfat
Reply #3 Saturday, June 14, 2008 6:24 AM
Reply #3 Saturday, June 14, 2008 6:24 AM
i actually have done so. its actually really odd, and now i'm beginning to think memory use is related to something else then OD, because of the odd variance i get, from 11 megs to 50. (its the usual settled range that is between 18 and 30). i know i definitly have a huge lag when i try to use the flyouts (i have a core 2 duo and 2gigs of ram, so i dont think a flyout should be that challenging. 
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but thats definitly comforting to hear that its running right there with someone else. now i feel less like a mutant computer owner.
).but thats definitly comforting to hear that its running right there with someone else. now i feel less like a mutant computer owner.
tylerisfat
Reply #4 Saturday, June 14, 2008 6:27 AM
Reply #4 Saturday, June 14, 2008 6:27 AM
im running vista, with those systats docklets on the right hand side, ishut, and a couple stack docklets. nothing that looks to dangerous.
HG_Eliminator
Reply #5 Saturday, June 14, 2008 6:37 AM
Reply #5 Saturday, June 14, 2008 6:37 AM
my only other thought could be, that possibly the stagger with the fly out menus could be a Vard performance issue?
the meg variance could be the Weather dock etc updating it's info. just a thought. mine runs lean but i run only the stock clock and weather docklets. mine run about 4-10 megs.
the meg variance could be the Weather dock etc updating it's info. just a thought. mine runs lean but i run only the stock clock and weather docklets. mine run about 4-10 megs.
tylerisfat
Reply #6 Sunday, June 15, 2008 4:07 AM
Reply #6 Sunday, June 15, 2008 4:07 AM
after some slight reconfiguring, yeah, i think its the updating. i'm using less flyouts now, and its running much better.
but it kinda sucks that now i can't use the awesome looking flyouts.
and now i think i feel the need to start a new thread about flyouts.
but it kinda sucks that now i can't use the awesome looking flyouts.
and now i think i feel the need to start a new thread about flyouts.
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Reply #1 Saturday, June 14, 2008 6:15 AM
Try going into the od config > performance options and check opitmized for memory.