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woodyfly   01-08-2009 at 08:56:56 PM

What can cause a choppy video playback? This is not only when watching/streaming movies, but also in games. It's not like a sudden jumpy chop, but a constant 24/7 minimal chop. Just reformatted, rules out spy ware/virus and processes problems and those type of problems. Graphic tweaking does not help, since i am not only playing games, but watching streamed movies as well. This includes vsync and different drivers.

Gpu and cpu temps are good.

I've tried different video card/psu/ram. Each time i switched GPU, i reformatted and did a clean install. Have not tried changing CPU/MOBO/HDD. Which one do you think is the culprit?

I dont know if this is normal or not, but when my cpu is idle at 0% load, every few random seconds my HDD activity light ticks as if it's accessing it for a split second.

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2gb corsair ram
400gb seagate sata
4350 radeon PCI-E
450w fortron PSU


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rwinches   01-09-2009 at 04:05:01 AM
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Chop or flicker?
You did not state what monitor you are using.
LCD or CRT and what refresh setting are you using?
If set too low like 60 you would see flicker from the slow refresh.
In the monitor setting there should be a choice for best settings.
Did you recently change monitors?

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woodyfly   01-09-2009 at 05:08:54 AM
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rwinches wrote :

Chop or flicker?
You did not state what monitor you are using.
LCD or CRT and what refresh setting are you using?
If set too low like 60 you would see flicker from the slow refresh.
In the monitor setting there should be a choice for best settings.
Did you recently change monitors?



Chop man... i said chop like 3 times in my OP. Flicker does not make videos run "sluggish"

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rwinches   01-09-2009 at 09:03:55 AM
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OH nasty reply! Thanks, I just trying to help with my 20+ years experience.
Using internal sound car can cause choppy video.
so you might try a dedicated sound card OK?

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sharken   01-09-2009 at 09:17:55 AM
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could be the watered down trailer park card too.... Wink

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rwinches   01-09-2009 at 09:26:28 AM
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Thanks PAL!
Sometimes I don't know why I bother.
I really do love this stuff though.

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woodyfly   01-09-2009 at 09:29:30 AM
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sharken wrote :

could be the watered down trailer park card too.... Wink



Oh yeah, because last time i checked, you need atleast a 8800GT to watch MOVIES correct? Damn sucks for the people that used computers back in 2000, i bet they couldnt watch movies or play games properly at all. (SARCASM)

I love how nowadays there's so many people that just argue about getting FASTER and BETTER specs, when in this case, it's not it at all. Whats me getting an 9800gt do anything if the culprit happens to be the motherboard?


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rwinches   01-09-2009 at 09:33:14 AM
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NO,
You may need a separate sound card to get smooth video though!

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sharken   01-09-2009 at 09:38:46 AM
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I was just playing... i give away cards to many people, 8800's etc relax

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rwinches   01-09-2009 at 09:46:59 AM
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I don't think you get it.
Your system sounds great!
I kept buying better MB's but still got problems because the on-board sound could not handle the task at hand.
Bite the bullet and buy a quality sound card.
And BTW we did watch videos on CD in 2000

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rwinches   01-09-2009 at 09:51:50 AM
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Oh Yeah
Doom was around in the ninety's so great games were available.

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woodyfly   01-09-2009 at 10:00:04 AM
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rwinches wrote :

I don't think you get it.
Your system sounds great!
I kept buying better MB's but still got problems because the on-board sound could not handle the task at hand.
Bite the bullet and buy a quality sound card.
And BTW we did watch videos on CD in 2000



Sounds it could be possible. What your problem similiar to mine? No apparent fps drops but noticeable choppy image?

Then again, i dont know. I've used onboard sound before and never had problems, and also know alot of people on onboard without problems as well. Then again, there's also the opposite

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Whiplash777   10-16-2009 at 04:00:43 AM
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I know I'm reviving an old thread, but I've had the same problem with my Windows 7 install. It seems to be a common problem, but I did not find any real solutions. Until now.
I have an 8600 GTS (DirectX 10 compliant) running Windows 7 x64 on an AMD X2 5600+. I never had any trouble until upgrading to Windows 7. Then my full screen video (Hulu, YouTube, DVDs, etc...) was really choppy.
I installed the latest version of DirectX and now everything is fine. It seems that (at least in my case) DirectX wasn't properly installed, or it didn't properly register with the latest nVidia drivers and by going to http://www.microsoft.com/directx and installing the latest DirectX, my choppy video issues went away.

I hope this helps someone.


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