I was using a cheap PCI VGA card and a 17" CRT for a long time, so I treated myself to a Radeon 7000 PCI graphics card and a 19" LCD display to my Pentium 4 system running Windows 2000. (using DVI interface.) Now I can use 1280x1024 and actually see my arrangement without a magnifying glass. But, when I am in arrangement view, if I select smooth scrolling the Task Manager CPU load goes to about 100%; the CPU meter in Live however stays lower. If I go to jump scrolling the CPU load becomes much more reasonable.
I have tried every combination of video card acceleration I can think of but nothing really makes a difference. I even started playing with Double Dawg to tweak the PCI latency settings but that either made no difference or caused Live to hang...better not mess with that.
I did some searches in the forums but did not find any topic quite like this one--maybe I'm the only one with the problem? Currently running Live 5.0.2 and 4.1 with the same results.