Syribo
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Not sure which category to put this in, but it seems like a general question.
So, my computer (The first one in my signature) that I put together about 4 years ago has been kinda driving me nuts lately. Now, I know it's extremely outdated now technically.. But.. I assumed that it should still be able to do most things without too much of a problem. Not maxing out brand new really high quality games or anything, but things I use it for on a daily basis.
A problem I've been having for months now, and I don't remember this always being a problem, is with 1080p video. It skips and skips and skips. Or it is just completely screwed up, the video. It's choppy and impossible to watch. So I have to make sure I get 720p video if I actually want to watch it. It's not a driver problem or codecs or anything like that. It's ONLY with any kind of 1080p quality Blu-Ray quality video files. Or even streaming 1080p.
Now, again, I know my PC is outdated.. But.. shouldn't it be good enough to still be able to play 1080p files?? My friend bought a Dell this past fall. 4 gigs of RAM, no dedicated GPU, 4-core processor and the thing plays 1080p flawlessly, like I would think mine should still be able to do.
Does this sound normal considering the build? I am able to play games on it at high settings, some games very high, at 1920x1200 without troubles. But video files are the problem. I've tried it in a lot of different players. DivX, Media Player, Media Player Classic, VLC. I have the usual codec packs installed. And this happens with movies, tv shows, anime.. everything. And any kind of file type.
The weird thing is that I can still run a ton of things at once on here without any slowdown. at any given time I have four or more streams on Ustream open (I do close them when I try to play the video files, and it makes no difference) and a ton of other programs running. The only problem I encounter on this machine is with any amazing quality video files.
Edit: Oh, and for fun.. I don't have anywhere near enough money to build a new system right now. But if I did have some money to afford some upgrade(s) on this, would it even be worth it? Would faster RAM, a better GPU (Instead of the 8800GTS SLI), anything even make a difference? I'm honestly very happy with it still. It's just this ONE thing that bothers me!
So, my computer (The first one in my signature) that I put together about 4 years ago has been kinda driving me nuts lately. Now, I know it's extremely outdated now technically.. But.. I assumed that it should still be able to do most things without too much of a problem. Not maxing out brand new really high quality games or anything, but things I use it for on a daily basis.
A problem I've been having for months now, and I don't remember this always being a problem, is with 1080p video. It skips and skips and skips. Or it is just completely screwed up, the video. It's choppy and impossible to watch. So I have to make sure I get 720p video if I actually want to watch it. It's not a driver problem or codecs or anything like that. It's ONLY with any kind of 1080p quality Blu-Ray quality video files. Or even streaming 1080p.
Now, again, I know my PC is outdated.. But.. shouldn't it be good enough to still be able to play 1080p files?? My friend bought a Dell this past fall. 4 gigs of RAM, no dedicated GPU, 4-core processor and the thing plays 1080p flawlessly, like I would think mine should still be able to do.
Does this sound normal considering the build? I am able to play games on it at high settings, some games very high, at 1920x1200 without troubles. But video files are the problem. I've tried it in a lot of different players. DivX, Media Player, Media Player Classic, VLC. I have the usual codec packs installed. And this happens with movies, tv shows, anime.. everything. And any kind of file type.
The weird thing is that I can still run a ton of things at once on here without any slowdown. at any given time I have four or more streams on Ustream open (I do close them when I try to play the video files, and it makes no difference) and a ton of other programs running. The only problem I encounter on this machine is with any amazing quality video files.
Edit: Oh, and for fun.. I don't have anywhere near enough money to build a new system right now. But if I did have some money to afford some upgrade(s) on this, would it even be worth it? Would faster RAM, a better GPU (Instead of the 8800GTS SLI), anything even make a difference? I'm honestly very happy with it still. It's just this ONE thing that bothers me!