HELP WITH VISTA ISSUES

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Hello all,
I'm having a couple of issues with Vista (at least the ones ive
discovered so far!)
First, video playback in WMP 11 is choppy. I have a 256 mg nvidia
video card so I certainly have enough video power. Why is playback so
choppy?
Second, the typing is consistently interrupted by whatever program I
am in (IE, Word, Outlook). So as I am typing the top bar of the
program lights up for a second and it wont recognize what i am
typing. It goes back right away but in the meantime, whatever i was
writing is all messed up.

As much as I love Vista, it is so buggy that I REALLY regret having
installed it.

Anyone have a solution to the choppy video playback and typing issues?

PLEASE HELP!
 
Hello all,
I'm having a couple of issues with Vista (at least the ones ive
discovered so far!)
First, video playback in WMP 11 is choppy. I have a 256 mg nvidia
video card so I certainly have enough video power. Why is playback so
choppy?
Second, the typing is consistently interrupted by whatever program I
am in (IE, Word, Outlook). So as I am typing the top bar of the
program lights up for a second and it wont recognize what i am
typing. It goes back right away but in the meantime, whatever i was
writing is all messed up.

As much as I love Vista, it is so buggy that I REALLY regret having
installed it.

Anyone have a solution to the choppy video playback and typing issues?

PLEASE HELP!
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Reformat. Install XP or Linux.

Alias
 
Hello all,
I'm having a couple of issues with Vista (at least the ones ive
discovered so far!)
First, video playback in WMP 11 is choppy. I have a 256 mg nvidia
video card so I certainly have enough video power. Why is playback so
choppy?
Second, the typing is consistently interrupted by whatever program I
am in (IE, Word, Outlook). So as I am typing the top bar of the
program lights up for a second and it wont recognize what i am
typing. It goes back right away but in the meantime, whatever i was
writing is all messed up.

As much as I love Vista, it is so buggy that I REALLY regret having
installed it.

Anyone have a solution to the choppy video playback and typing issues?

PLEASE HELP!
Click to expand...
Please tell us which video card you have, as 256 meg doesn't necessarily
mean you have "enough video power". Also, which drivers are you running and
have you tried other versions? It sounds like a driver issue.
 
Hello all,
I'm having a couple of issues with Vista (at least the ones ive
discovered so far!)
First, video playback in WMP 11 is choppy. I have a 256 mg nvidia
video card so I certainly have enough video power. Why is playback so
choppy?
Second, the typing is consistently interrupted by whatever program I
am in (IE, Word, Outlook). So as I am typing the top bar of the
program lights up for a second and it wont recognize what i am
typing. It goes back right away but in the meantime, whatever i was
writing is all messed up.

As much as I love Vista, it is so buggy that I REALLY regret having
installed it.

Anyone have a solution to the choppy video playback and typing issues?

PLEASE HELP!
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Did you upgrade your computer or is this a new computer that came with
Vista preinstalled? Did you install the latest drivers for all your
hardware?


Malke
 
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.80 GHZ
Nvidia Geforce 6800
1022MB RAM

This issue is happening on my desktop and laptop both of which are
running Vista.
I downloaded the latest drivers from Nvidias website but it didnt
help.
The video works, but at first its very choppy and if i try to advance
the video it gets choppy again.
The typing issue also happens on both my laptop and desktop. Whatever
program I am typing in pauses for a moment every couple of seconds and
interrupts my typing. I just turned off the windows sidebar which
looks like it might have solved the typing problem for now, but it is
ridiculous that I cannot use one of the Vista features because it
interrupts the whole system.


Why would microsoft release a product that is so BUGGY!

Anyone find a solution to the choppy, intermittent video playback?
 
I did a fresh install of vista. I formatted and deleted the xp os
before installing. Booted off the Vista cd.
 
Hello all,
I'm having a couple of issues with Vista (at least the ones ive
discovered so far!)
First, video playback in WMP 11 is choppy. I have a 256 mg nvidia
video card so I certainly have enough video power. Why is playback so
choppy?
Second, the typing is consistently interrupted by whatever program I
am in (IE, Word, Outlook). So as I am typing the top bar of the
program lights up for a second and it wont recognize what i am
typing. It goes back right away but in the meantime, whatever i was
writing is all messed up.

As much as I love Vista, it is so buggy that I REALLY regret having
installed it.

Anyone have a solution to the choppy video playback and typing issues?

PLEASE HELP!
Click to expand...


I had the choppy WMP11 problem, but on mp3 playback, not video.
It would be choppy upon opening a browser window for example.
One of the reasons I went back to XP where WMP11 plays smoothly with no
problems.
Just wish I could sell my Vista disc & licence...not many takers out there
for a activated copy of Vista :-(
 
I did a fresh install of vista. I formatted and deleted the xp os
before installing. Booted off the Vista cd.
Click to expand...

When you return to XP you will notice a huge speed difference.
If you will miss the integrated search function in Vista, which IMO is
Vistas' best feature, I recommend Copernic which is free.
What else is there to miss in Vista?
 
What's the total system memory and what kind of CPU does it have?

Did this machine come with Vista, or did you load it onto an XP machine?
 
Hello all,
I'm having a couple of issues with Vista (at least the ones ive
discovered so far!)
First, video playback in WMP 11 is choppy. I have a 256 mg nvidia
video card so I certainly have enough video power. Why is playback so
choppy?
Second, the typing is consistently interrupted by whatever program I
am in (IE, Word, Outlook). So as I am typing the top bar of the
program lights up for a second and it wont recognize what i am
typing. It goes back right away but in the meantime, whatever i was
writing is all messed up.

As much as I love Vista, it is so buggy that I REALLY regret having
installed it.

Anyone have a solution to the choppy video playback and typing issues?

PLEASE HELP!
Click to expand...

Please tell us which video card you have, as 256 meg doesn't necessarily
mean you have "enough video power". Also, which drivers are you running and
have you tried other versions? It sounds like a driver issue.
 
Greetings,

This COULD be a codec issue. One thing you may try is to switch off the
hardware acceleration in those programs (Nvidia has VERY crappy Vista
drivers, from what I've heard).

You can also try updating your Nvidia drivers.

- Lawrence

in message news:[email protected]...
 
Hey Lawrence,
The only reason I dont think its a driver issue with NVIDIA is that it
happens on my desktop AND laptop.
Could it be some setting on WMP??? I dont know. I am still
investigating.
As pretty as VISTA is, the amount of bugs in it are god awful.
 
Hi Everyone,

I've been looking at some responses to this person's problem and I
appreciate all the help you've given him/her so far. I'm having the same set
of problems, my video playback is almost unusable. Upgraded my HP m400y to
vista. It has an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 video card, along with 768mb of ram.
I've ordered a 1gb stick to replace 256 of that, which should arrive in a
week. I also just added a second hard drive, 200gb Seagate 7200rpm to run
everything media center related. Needless to say the video playback is
terrible and the computer is slow as a whole. I've heard that it's supposed
to get better over time, but is it possible my problems are a result of
needing a new video card? more ram? or not using the new hard drive?

Thank you so much,

Jeremy Schwartz
 
Your video card is definitely a major week point, it will not support Aero -- no
DX 9 support and no pixel shader 2.0 support.
 
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