Can't figure out why all videos when played either on youtube or imdb are choppy and end up using 100% cpu. Can't even play music from pandora. Forget about opening up another window or tab. Nothing but studdering! Browser doesn't matter. Either in Chrome or IE. Makes no sense. Plenty of memory too. Using an old socket 939 system with 1 GB ram and Win XP. Any ideas?
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Win XP. Video's playing or mp3's 100% cpu usage. Very choppy.
- Thread starter Rob94hawk
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The only thing I can think of is installing K-Lite Codec pack to see if that helps alleviate at least the video problems. I've had this many times myself and it has always been hit or miss. Completely would drag down the system playing any media files and sometimes that strangely resolved it, other times nothing. Do another fresh install and magically it goes away.
If anyone knows the root cause I'd be interested to hear myself. It's annoyingly frustrating, but sometimes the codec's help.
If anyone knows the root cause I'd be interested to hear myself. It's annoyingly frustrating, but sometimes the codec's help.
dandragonrage
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First of all, NO to K-Lite codec pack. If you must use a codec pack, use CCCP.
Make sure your video card drivers are installed, and also install AMD CPU driver and dual-core optimizer. I used to not believe that the AMD CPU driver / DCO did jack squat, but I've personally fixed some major gaming-related issues on a friend's computer where the solution was installing those. I don't think such things are necessary for later Windows versions, but I think they are necessary with some AMD CPUs for Windows XP. The friend's PC I fixed was running XP - this was probably 4-5 years ago. Also make sure any chipset and hard drive controller drivers are installed.
1GB RAM is pretty crappy for XP, really, though it's high enough that it shouldn't be causing issues like you are seeing.
You can also run Perfmon (it comes with Windows) and set up some various monitors. Monitor I/O for one. I've seen "mostly" bad hard drives that technically worked, but were broken in that they killed the entire system performance. The worst example I've seen is that I once had a Maxtor 40GB drive that seemed to work, but slowed down to <100KB/s (seriously, under 100 kilobytes a second) performance in any benchmark I tried. Replacing the drive of course fixed everything.
Make sure your video card drivers are installed, and also install AMD CPU driver and dual-core optimizer. I used to not believe that the AMD CPU driver / DCO did jack squat, but I've personally fixed some major gaming-related issues on a friend's computer where the solution was installing those. I don't think such things are necessary for later Windows versions, but I think they are necessary with some AMD CPUs for Windows XP. The friend's PC I fixed was running XP - this was probably 4-5 years ago. Also make sure any chipset and hard drive controller drivers are installed.
1GB RAM is pretty crappy for XP, really, though it's high enough that it shouldn't be causing issues like you are seeing.
You can also run Perfmon (it comes with Windows) and set up some various monitors. Monitor I/O for one. I've seen "mostly" bad hard drives that technically worked, but were broken in that they killed the entire system performance. The worst example I've seen is that I once had a Maxtor 40GB drive that seemed to work, but slowed down to <100KB/s (seriously, under 100 kilobytes a second) performance in any benchmark I tried. Replacing the drive of course fixed everything.
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Your need to turn off pio mode in your BIOS. Try it.
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