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[justaguy]

Hi all. My father in law's rig was suffering. Poor performance in general and the video was choppy when playing mpegs. Formatted c: and reinstalled Win98. Performance is back where it should be-mpegs still blow. The status bar at the bottom of media player will actually skip a second or two at a time making the rendered file look like cartoons with 1/3 of the drawings taken out.

His hardware:
AXP 2000+
Epox 8RDA+
Radeon 9200 (unsure which model)

The drivers appear to be ok as the games I tested worked fine. DirectX??? Help?

Where there's a will, there's a way-even when it comes to screwing up.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by justaguy on 11/15/03 10:27 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[justaguy]

No help from you guys? Somebody's gotta know how to fix this...

Where there's a will, there's a way-even when it comes to screwing up.

 

[coylter]

how much ram and what is the ram speed

My own beast: Athlon 2700xp+ , Radeon 9800pro (oc: 410/370) , 512mb ddr400. SO MUCH faster than my father pIII 550......

 

[HarrY]

ok........not the bightest of answers
but may be something is wrong with the codec's

 

[justaguy]

PC 2700 @ 333DDR FSB Dual-Channel ---TBred running synchronous w/10 multiplier.

2x256

Simpletech Ram-cheap, but no problems other than movie playback. I'm thinking maybe it is a codec issue-that would explain why a game works and not an mpeg or avi.

Where there's a will, there's a way-even when it comes to screwing up.

 

[Willamette_sucks]

I get that once in a while, but it's file specific and has to do with corrupted downloads. I'm not sure what videos you're trying to view, but try dloading an mpeg and see if it's file specific.

If not the only thing I can do is recommend that you commit suicide. Sorry.

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Me: cause I know I can provide.
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[justaguy]

It's not file specific=saved files to a zip disk and they run correctly on another machine.

Suicide--that's pretty harsh. It's not even my computer!

Where there's a will, there's a way-even when it comes to screwing up.