Multimonitor Performance Issue

[surfacedamage]

I am running the latest beta of SJ with two monitors -- one is a 15" cheap LCD and I just acquired a TekVisions 15" LCD touchscreen. The touchscreen is being powered off a relatively new ATI radeon and the other monitor is being powered off an onboard video card (Matrox). The jukebox machine itself is a relatively old machine (Pentium III - 500).

When I am running SJ in kiosk mode, I use the multimonitor support to show the main interface on the touchscreen and the basic visualization on the cheap LCD. When I do this, the main interface seems to slow down considerably. Scrolling the alumums on the screen seems to refresh very slowly and it's just enough to be aggrevating.

When I don't do the visualization to a different monitor or when I don't run SJ in kiosk mode, scrolling and everything is fine. I've tried swapping the video card outputs to power the opposite monitor, but same results. I've also tried turning off all visualization effects (aside from the album/title display) and changing the resolution on the "visualization monitor" to something very low. No improvements.

Since when I run in kiosk mode, I can't open up task manager, I am having a difficult time figuring out where my bottleneck is -- is it CPU, memory, video or something that can't really be improved?

Does anyone else have any ideas or a similar experience?

[surfacedamage]

Quick update on my issue: I moved silverjuke beta to a different machine I had laying around (a dual-CPU Pentium III 500), installed two PCI video cards (one ATI Radeon/one nVidia GeForce), and upgraded the memory to 640 megs. Everything is working very smoothly now. Both the touchscreen and the cheap LCD work without any slowdown or stutter.

Unfortunately, since so many variables changed, I am not able to say with complete certainty which piece (or multiple pieces) made the difference.

I'm just glad everything is working well now!