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abbor
10-09-2005, 05:37 PM
A friend of mine's computer was running really slow, so I told him I could fix it..

I thought that the only thing I needed to do was to format the system disk, and reinstall windows, as I always do when my own computer does this to me...

But the problem isn't fixed... I installed the same divx, and xvid codecs that I use myself, but the videos lag as hell.. It's the same with every media player I use..

The strange thing is that his computer is a lot better than mine... In PCMark he got 2600 points, and I only got 1600...

What can be the problem?
AlienDB7
10-09-2005, 06:13 PM
Did you update the video card driver as well as DirectX? Check the cpu usage during playback, it may not be cpu related.
abbor
10-09-2005, 06:16 PM
Yeah, I installed the newest version of the video card driver, and DirectX 9.0c...

Another thing, his pc was better than mine on all points in pcmark, except from divx- and wmv-playback... He was down on 19 fps in divx... :?
nthfinity
10-09-2005, 06:39 PM
do a hard drive benchmark, see if thats the problem
abbor
10-09-2005, 06:49 PM
okay... what benchmark program do you suggest? I only have the shareware version of pcmark, so I wanted to know if anyones better before visiting astalavista..
nthfinity
10-09-2005, 07:00 PM
astalavista..

my recomendation is dont go there without full real time virus can on... very useful, but very dangerous site...
i havent used one in a long time, but this seems reasonable
http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/english.html?/be_hdd.html
abbor
10-09-2005, 07:17 PM
I know man.. :wink: I never say yes to installing things like crack.exe, which I apparantly 'need to install, to be able to do this and that,' and I always have antivirus on.. So no problemo... :wink:

And thanks for the prog, I already downloaded one of those, and I'm happy with how it works..
AlienDB7
10-09-2005, 08:30 PM
If it's slow on DivX and WMV playback, perhaps it's the video card or soundcard. May I ask what video card or sound card he has? If they're on board (built-in) ones, they could be source of the problem.

Just last week, I had frame drop and audio corruption problem from my TV Tuner recordings. Turned out it was problem with the on board nForce 2 audio. Switched to my other Envy24HT-S card and it's been working fine since then. Okay I did have 3 sound cards in here so it can be a special case :oops:
nthfinity
10-10-2005, 12:14 AM
Okay I did have 3 sound cards in here so it can be a special case

no kidding, but you are the Alien 0X, and your rips are simply the best... so you must have a few pretty good ideas