Jerky Video Files

[Guest]

Some of my video files like mpeg or avi files do run smoothly in any of
my video players in XP Pro. Yet they do play smoothly in my video
players in Win 98 SE. They also run well on my 400 mhz Toshiba Laptop.

I have a 2.5 gig AMD cpu with 512 megs ram. My video card is a Matrox
G450 dual head.

Anyone have any suggestions for rectifying this problem.

 

[SlowJet]

I looked on the site.
There is NOT an XP driver to be found, let lone one for SP2.
Where did you get your driver as this card's technology was designed in
1999?

Assuming you have a driver for XP SP2,
I would check the IRQ's sharing with another heavy hitter like the sound
card, NIC, 3rd party disk controllor.

This card comes in AGP and PCI.
If AGP make sure the first PIC slot is empty or used by something of low
use.
If PCI make sure it is in the First PCI slot next to the AGP slot(or where
on would be).

Try, for experment, setting the perfomace seting,
More cpu to background tasks(may make things smoother.)

If your card really is 4 or 5 years old with no new driver you know what you
have to do.

SJ

 

[Guest]

I looked on the site.
There is NOT an XP driver to be found, let lone one for SP2.
Where did you get your driver as this card's technology was designed in
1999?

Assuming you have a driver for XP SP2,

I D'Led the latest drivers for the G450. They are version 5.93.009
released Oct 26/04 and are supposed to be for XP

I would check the IRQ's sharing with another heavy hitter like the sound
card, NIC, 3rd party disk controllor.

Sound card is on the MB, NIC is on the MB, disk controler is on the MB.

This card comes in AGP and PCI.
If AGP make sure the first PIC slot is empty or used by something of low
use.

It is AGP and the slot next to the Matrox card is empty.

Thanks for the suggestion about the IRQs.

 

[Guest]

Couple of things to check......

Right clikc the desktop / Properties / Settings / Advanced / Troubleshoot
from here make sure the slider is all the way to the right (Full) and the
Write combining tick box is checked (if available), click ok all the way out.

Now click Start / Run / type DXDIAG press enter

Click Display

Make sure Direct draw acceleration is enabled, if not enable it (ave to
click the Test Directdraw buton first) and like wise for the Direct3D and AGP.

Now try your video again (may need to reboot your pc first)

Let us know

Ashleigh