I have this geforce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express and my videos hiccup and skip through the whole time. I have 3.46ghz single core with 2gb ddr2 ram. is my processor not right or is the video card shot. it really skips bad when i'm watching videos on the internet. i updated drivers and all and it's still not working right/ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130062
There are several things between your video card and the internet, like your hard drive and your internet connection. Among the things that can cause what you are describing 1) Slow internet connection (video stream can't keep up) 2) badly fragmented hard drive 3) Other applications/tasks competing for I/O or CPU cycles Can you play a DVD? Can you play a video stream that has been completely buffered to your hard drive?
i have a good connection. I get around 800kbs a second on my downloads. i have an antispyware program called superantispyware. that takes up alot of memory, plus i have zonealarm. i haven't defraged i'm gonna try that in a minute. i still have a regular ide hard drive. should i use another app. to defrag or can i just use the windows defrag.
"Can you play a DVD? Can you play a video stream that has been completely buffered to your hard drive? " I would verify these two things before defragmenting your drive.
i used a pc optimize app and it found over 1,000 errors in the registry. it skips here and there now but not as bad as it did before. i just want it to stop doin it completely because the computer @ my work isn't faster than mine, but yet it plays all videos fine. no skips.
No point installing more crap just so you can defrag unless you want on the fly & that won't be free ,besides the defrag utility is nothing more than a fancy interface that uses windows own engine to do the job..lol..best way for a complete defrag is in safe mode but before booting to it set page file to 0 & set hibernation to None reason being you can't defrag either,would'nt hurt to do a disk check at this time too,doing both more than a couple times a week especially the frag part will reduce the amount of time it takes the next time do it more if you install,download & delete a lot of stuff,if you find after doing the defrag & reset of pagefile things seem a bit boggy do a restart & it should run smooth as Can't really help with the video thingy that's a matter of trial,error ,hair pulling & finally hit with a sledge hammer Be very careful when using so called optimization programs,make sure you read what you're deleting not all entries are from dead programs or links,i've been down that road grrrrrr,for true optimization or a faster running pc & if your running xp there are registry edits that can be made to make things move along,use the web search if you want to know more,i think it was tech republic or cnet that had an instruction on it,it works quite well especially paging windows to ram,instead of hard disk etc
i'm sure about how to set the page file to 0. you're saying that everything has been trying to run off the hard drive and not the ram?
Just so we're clear none of what I've said will fix you're main issue. An hdd cannot be defragged properly while the pagefile & hibernation files are in place,they're the green bits you see in the graph,once defrag is finished you have to reset the pf back to it's original size or larger tho you'll get much better performance if the pf is placed on a slave drive instead since you're not trying to read & write at the same time on the one drive,the page windows to ram or at least a part of it will be faster than if attempting to read off the hdd etc,however if you run say windowblinds or certain GUI software to make the desktop look pretty you may not be able to page kernel to ram,the link below shows how to do it,tho for the menu speed use tweakui powertoy from microsoft it also has a stack of other functions as well & xdntweaker would be a good add on as it allows adjustments that tweakui doesn't do,neither of these two apps once setup will require any ram or cpu power in the taskmanager,basicly set & forget (for the record i do all of what i've said except for page windows kernel as i'm running object desktop) http://kadaitcha.cx/performance.html EDIT: That link has even more tweaks than what i'd used & seen from tech republic including a faster & apparently better defrag utility which is open source & only 200kb in size,the site explains things better too
