Problem with playing avi or mpeg video. Help needed

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JD

Hi

I have recently upgraded to amd64 3200+ plus gigabyte motherboard. On my old
32bit chip I didn't have this problem. I am using my old geforce fx5600 card
256mb ram.

My problem is I can play an avi video using realplayer or windows media the
first time fine, but when I try to play another video it slows down,
whichever software I use. It plays very slow then freezes. I have found to
fix this I change my monitor refresh rate, ie if it is running at 85hz I
change it to 75hz. The video then runs ok until the next time I want to play
a video then I have to do the same thing, change it from 75hz to 85 hz. It
seems that the refresh rate needs to be changed to any setting to continue
playing another video without a reboot. I have the latest NVIDIA drivers and
latest gigabyte bios and drivers cant figure out what's going on,

Any suggestions??
 
the maniacal said:
Hi

I have recently upgraded to amd64 3200+ plus gigabyte motherboard. On
my old 32bit chip I didn't have this problem. I am using my old
geforce fx5600 card 256mb ram.

My problem is I can play an avi video using realplayer or windows
media the first time fine, but when I try to play another video it
slows down, whichever software I use. It plays very slow then
freezes. I have found to fix this I change my monitor refresh rate,
ie if it is running at 85hz I change it to 75hz. The video then runs
ok until the next time I want to play a video then I have to do the
same thing, change it from 75hz to 85 hz. It seems that the refresh
rate needs to be changed to any setting to continue playing another
video without a reboot. I have the latest NVIDIA drivers and latest
gigabyte bios and drivers cant figure out what's going on,

Any suggestions??
Click to expand...

Hunt around for an earlier version of the nVidia reference drivers then
uninstall the version you currently have. The latest drivers are not always
the best.
 
ftz said:
I have a Gigabyte mobo also and a AMD64 3200+ with a FX 5600 and my avi
and mpeg files looked really bad. I tested with archived nvidia
drivers and got it working so I hope nvidia fixes this on later
releases. Working nvidia driver "66.93_win2kxp_english.exe"
Click to expand...

I had OK video with 66.93_XP but games rates were bad. Don't bother with
77.72, the video overlay has a bug for the gamma that jumps from 0.5 to 3.5
and can't be set in between.

I will be trying 77.77 as it supposed to fix that. I'm running an FX5700.

Dave
 
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