just wanted to add my experience here in hopes that it may help someone else experiencing this issue, I have a 16 camera system consisting of primarily 2-4MP hikvisions and 3 d1 cameras feeding in through an Axis box. all are set to 15fps, 4096 bit rate, motion detection and direct to disk. live view is set to 10fps. o/s and DB are on a 256GB Intel SSD, footage is split between two purple 2TB drives. Microsoft security essentials excluding BI program directory and footage directories. replaced my i7-2700 win 7pro with 16GB of RAM and no HD processing (93-97% processor utilization) with a new HP ProDesk i7-6700, same drives, Win 7Pro and 4GB RAM (more on order). the new machine was pegged at 100% processor and 99% RAM off the bat. enabling HD acceleration dropped the processor to mid 90's utilization. I removed the HP video drivers and ran the Intel Utility to get the latest video driver, no improvement. setting acceleration to post processing dropped CPU usage down to 26% but the cameras kept disconnecting and live view was practically useless.
I changed the video memory setting in the BIOS from 16MB to 512MB, processor utilization is down in the high 70's to spiking low 80's now, memory usage is holding 2.2-2.4GB. There is still a lot more tuning to do once I get the additional RAM, and I will also go ahead and build out a second SSD with Windows 10 to see if anything is gained there. there are other issues such as low frame rates as well, and the live view pretty much sucks where it used to be fluid. I will try downgrading to a prior BI version to see if that helps as well.