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Adam Netzel
I am running a Dell Dimension 4500 w/P4 2Ghz, 512MB RAM, nVidia
GeForce 4 Titanium 4200 (64MB Video Memory). For whatever reason, my
DVD's and any high bit-rate videos are now playing improperly. The
audio and video both jump and skip. Here is what I have already done
in an attempt to fix:
- I initially attributed it to the DVD player, but when I tried
playing the Halo 2 "HUGE" trailer, it did the same thing.
- I have tried different versions of Windows Media Player to no avail.
- I thought it might be spyware, but there different pieces of
software (Spyware Blaster, SpyBot Search and Destory, Ad-Aware) and an
antivirus check (Norton, latest definitions) came up clean (except for
a minor DSO exploit that I'm constantly fixing).
- Checking the Processes under the System Manager revealed no foreign
or unfamiliar processes
BUT, finally, I checked the Performance tab, and, although I show
anywhere between 250 and 300 MB of available physical RAM - even when
playing the video, my pagefile usage ballooned up to 250MB! At system
idle, it currently uses 161MB of PAGEFILE, whil saying that 300MB of
physical RAM is available. I downloaded MemTurbo, but all it did was
free up more physical RAM without affecting pagefile size. Regular
system performance is unaffected - only video playback is a problem,
and then, only large video files with high bitrates. I don't get it,
and I don't know what else to do. Please help!
Adam
GeForce 4 Titanium 4200 (64MB Video Memory). For whatever reason, my
DVD's and any high bit-rate videos are now playing improperly. The
audio and video both jump and skip. Here is what I have already done
in an attempt to fix:
- I initially attributed it to the DVD player, but when I tried
playing the Halo 2 "HUGE" trailer, it did the same thing.
- I have tried different versions of Windows Media Player to no avail.
- I thought it might be spyware, but there different pieces of
software (Spyware Blaster, SpyBot Search and Destory, Ad-Aware) and an
antivirus check (Norton, latest definitions) came up clean (except for
a minor DSO exploit that I'm constantly fixing).
- Checking the Processes under the System Manager revealed no foreign
or unfamiliar processes
BUT, finally, I checked the Performance tab, and, although I show
anywhere between 250 and 300 MB of available physical RAM - even when
playing the video, my pagefile usage ballooned up to 250MB! At system
idle, it currently uses 161MB of PAGEFILE, whil saying that 300MB of
physical RAM is available. I downloaded MemTurbo, but all it did was
free up more physical RAM without affecting pagefile size. Regular
system performance is unaffected - only video playback is a problem,
and then, only large video files with high bitrates. I don't get it,
and I don't know what else to do. Please help!
Adam