Logitech Vision Pro - blurred image

At the end of last year I posted on here trying to resolve a problem of people seeing very blurred images of me in iChat. I gave up eventually but have since contacted Logitech who suggested I try it on another machine. I tried it as an alternative to the built in iSight on my MacBook Pro and the results are a vast improvement.
My PowerMac and Macbook Pro are both running 10.5.7 and iChat 4.0.8. The PowerMac gives dreadful images, the MacBook Pro is fine. So what does iChat on the laptop have that makes it work as expected?
(Results at my end look fine on both machines.)

Yep.
You can try this on trial first
http://www.ecamm.com/mac/powerboost/
It may help.
One clue might be to look at the Activity Monitor and see what the CPU usage is for iChat, iChatAgent and vcencoder (Lower case) during a Video Chat (Or Preview) and see if they seems to be large differences between the two computers
iChat 4 "pushes" some of the video production for iChat to the Video card.
Technically it is the Video card that prevents Backdrops on PowerMac computers but as these can be updated on Towers and some Built to Order options the Processor level is used as the controlling factor (Intels Only)
9:56 PM Tuesday; June 30, 2009
Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

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