[RESOLVED] Questioning again(forgotten)

[Catolicus]

Ok, sorry, but I forgot something.

Does anyone a good vid card? At current I have a Voodoo 2 2000, and really good video skips.

(I swear, its not that softwear gets out real fast, its the fact everything advances to far for the peoples current softwear and isn't trully usefull anymore.)

Watching a video at the beginning of a game(Star Trek: New Worlds. Video animation for the intro is extremely good), it skips horribly. And its not the audio because when the video is not playing or is changing scenes the audio is perfect.

Any suggestions?????

-- Catolicus

[J_Man]

I would look at either your CD-Rom Drive or the disc it's self. If it's only movies that skip, you probably have a scratch or your CD-Rom is slipping. On the other hand you may have another program running in the backgroud (such as findfast, diskeeper etc..) that is interfering with the playback. Lastley, check your swap file size. If it is too small, your PC must wait to load the next part of the movie, hence the skip.

I hope one of these sort out your problem

[MrBumpy]

If the video is skipping or choppy, it's usually becuase the data rate too fast for the computer speed or the Hard drive speed.

If you have an older P55 (166/233) processor or a slow hard drive, then avi's/mpg's that are encoded poorly (i.e. high datarate) can't be processed as quickly as they need to be to display smoothly.

The Voodoo3 2000 is a perfectly capable card and is *not* the bottleneck in the system.

Plus, given ST:NW is a total crap game, it wouldn't suprise me if they didn't encode the opening movie correctly.