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When you have a minute, take a look at this screen and see if you can tell me what’s going on. I’m just thinking ahead, trying to come up with ways I can spruce up my screens in the future.

There are two fans, one that spins on its vertical axis, and one that rotates. With the first one, I just wanted to give it the appearance of rotating (use your imagination :slight_smile: ). They are both keyed off a timer, which ultimately would be replaced by real feedback devices.

So, a couple of questions: When both components are on the screen, the fan on the vertical axis really takes a lot of the resources. Is this a function of the horizontal stretching, or is it because of my expression?

Second, if I delete the fan on the vertical axis, and give the focus to the screen, the rotating fan spins like crazy. But if I give the focus back to either the fan or the timer, it slowns down considerably. Why would this be?

Again, don’t waste a lot of time on this. I’m just playing around for now, but want to see what makes sense and what doesn’t for the future.
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Your timer delay is set to zero, which means run as fast as possible. You don’t want this. (this is why it ‘goes crazy’ when you don’t select it - it can repaint much faster when the designer handles aren’t on top of it).

Set the delay to something like 33 (33ms = 30 fps = full motion video), and you should see the CPU usage drop.

Stretching an image is a very CPU intensive task, which is why that fan takes up so much CPU (vs rotating an image, which is much faster).