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Problem with playing avi or mpeg video. Help needed
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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?? |
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JD Wrote: 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?? I just built an athlon 64 pc myself with a chaintech mainboard and 2800+ athlon 64 cpu. I won't go into the specifics because this is obviously not an issue particular to certain 64 bit hardware. I used an asus nvidia geforce 5200 128 mb card for the video. I have the same problem on this system. I haven't tested the video with a 32 bit system, but I reformatted the drive and reinstalled windows, this time letting the video run off of the default driver installed by windows xp, which is nvidia geforce fx5200 (microsoft). This is the driver windows had already in its database. For some reason, I was not able to uninstall the nvidia drivers that came with the card and install this one manually. It would only install during initial windows setup. I installed all my graphics intensive programs afterwards to check performance and everything was good. (Maybe not quite as good as before with the nvidia drivers installed, but quite good.) I ran some tests ripping a dvd to divx avi format and did not have the problem as before. It only occurs when I install the official nvidia drivers for the card. The latest updated drivers on the web are no help and changes in nvidia settings do not correct it. Changes in windows media player settings are also no help. There is apparently a compatibility issue with the nvidia drivers and the athlon 64 platform. (By platform, I mean the problem could be in the cpu, the chipset, or the chipset drivers.) If you just want to be able to watch video properly, you can use the divx player. It works just fine. (divx.com) If you want it all to work right, you may have to reinstall windows and skip installing the official drivers. I guess nvidia will eventually work this out, but they haven't yet. -- rdbrooks |
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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" -- ftz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ftz's Profile: http://www.64bit-world.com/forums/member.php?u=1161 View this thread: http://www.64bit-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1895 |
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"ftz" wrote in message ... 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" 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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Dave Wrote: "ftz" wrote in message ... 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" 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 77.77 didn't work for me. This is really annoying. I thought I was upgrading my PC and added a 200GB HDD and a DVD Burner in addition to the new Mobo and AMD 64 chip. Big dissapointment. I've stuck with nvidia but wonder if I should follow ATI for my next card? Any suggestions??? -- ftz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ftz's Profile: http://www.64bit-world.com/forums/member.php?u=1161 View this thread: http://www.64bit-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1895 |
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I loaded up 77.77 again on top of the 66.93 install and it works just fine now. Strange!!! I guess I'll have to remember that if I rebuild later. Figured I better try the new ones again since I got bad performance on CS Source with the 66.93 driver (Like you mentioned). Thanks Marc -- ftz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ftz's Profile: http://www.64bit-world.com/forums/member.php?u=1161 View this thread: http://www.64bit-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1895 |
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