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watching video = jumpy

drozenski

Limp Gawd
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when i watch video or movies the video will pause for a second or skip parts and i'm really getting upset.

i have all the lateist drivers/video & sound codecs / windows updates and all that stuff

i've tried everything

i have all my videos on a 200gb SATA driveand thats all thats on the drive i'm totaly stumped

i've reformatted and it didnt help

can some one please help me

i'm running
P4 2.6ghz 800mhz fsb
36gb raptor for OS
200gb for movies/vids
100gb for music
100gb for downloads
120gb for data
1Gb of cosair high end ram 400mhz matched pair
500watt raid max power supply
Abit IC7
nvidia g-force 4 4800 se
sound blaster audigey gamer

i do notice that when watching movies or vids the mem usage is 10mb or so then when it skips or pauses for a second it jumps to 13mb and falls back to 10mb when it restarts.

:confused:
 
spyware/adware

check what process is using up cpu at the time of the skip.

defrag

try a different player and check if it occurs doing high quality 3d game playing.
 
Originally posted by Ocean
spyware/adware

check what process is using up cpu at the time of the skip.

defrag

try a different player and check if it occurs doing high quality 3d game playing.

already checked spyware

only 2 processes use the cpu at the same time and they never use more than 4-6%

there is always 75%+ sitting in system idle

i'm defraging now and downloading the lateist divx player i'll let you know
 
well i'm useing the lateist divx player and all is well i guess it was just windows media player
 
windows media player 9 can be a resource whore with new avi codecs. it also like to try to access the net every thirty seconds or so for some stupid reason.

you might have a slower machine possibly. id recommend http://www.bsplayer.com/ for an awesome minimalist very functional and usable avi player. it is better than wmp9 or divx. very tight fast efficient coding. skins kinda suck though.
 
thanks man but i was looking around for a possiable cause when i decided to go to system under control panel then click the performance tab. i found the problem right away. the only drive that had any page file was my OS drive. so i quickley fixed that and now everything is super. even windows media player 9 is great no skips. stupid windows xp not setting a page file for those disks :mad: oh live and learn :D
 
I use ZoomPlayer 3.0 to play my media files and they play great on my P3 450.
 
it happens to me when i try to watch DVDs but i m guessing it MIGHT be the ram but i m not sure...still trying to figure it out though so if anyone knows, please say sumthing
 
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