Choppy Video and Audio

[Guest]

I have an older Systemax P4 1.4 w/ ATI Radeon 7000 and SB Audigy 2 w/ XP PRO
I've always had problems w/ choppy video, audio and just all around screen
flicker. My DVD movies were skipping a lot a frames. Anyway, to keep it
short, I discovered a checkbox below the hardware acceleration slider called
"write combining" which is, I guess, a windows program, which is checked by
default. I unchecked this box, did the shut down and restart and walla, no
more choppy video, audio, e.g. skiped DVD frames. Its as though I've got a
new computer. I also tried this on a couple of friends E-Machines w/ AMD
Semprons and built in audio and video, XP Home. While their computers were
not quite as choppy as mine, there was also a huge increase in overall
performance. I did not reduce hardware acceleration at all. Anyway, just a
suggestion to the fine folks at Windows that maybe unchecked, as a default
setting for this box might be looked into?

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the good tip.

For those of you who don't know where to find the setting, open Display in
the Control Panel, click Settings, click Advanced tab, click Troubleshoot,
and the setting is under Hardware acceleration.

Eric,
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