Slow Media Player

Logla · Jul 1, 2003, 03:54 PM

Since I got my last Radeon card (9700Pro) I noticed that visualisations (particularly the battery group) in Media Player suffer from very slow, stuttery performance. This does not change until I right click on the screen or bring any other window to the front and the performance increases dramatically. It doesn't seem to matter how big the window is that I bring to front but only occurs when media player is a large window on the screen. This never ever happened when I was using nVidia cards.

Any thoughts?

Judas · Jul 1, 2003, 09:05 PM

Fresh install of Windows? A video card is a VERY significant change in hardware and software. Expecially when you go from one brand to the next...

Logla · Jul 2, 2003, 06:09 AM

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Originally posted by Judas
Fresh install of Windows? A video card is a VERY significant change in hardware and software. Expecially when you go from one brand to the next...

Several fresh installs. The machine has been rebuilt several times since I moved over to ATi. The result is always the same. I've noticed that its always ok in fullscreen mode, just slow when I maximise the window.

Judas · Jul 2, 2003, 12:08 PM

do you have good exhaust? (might be getting hot or something)

Logla · Jul 2, 2003, 01:17 PM

The cooling is fine. Its air cooled but there are 3 intakes and 2 exhausts and the system temp never reaches more than 35degrees. Definately not a temprature issue.

Judas · Jul 2, 2003, 03:32 PM

i can only think of one other possible problem... faulty hardware.... But i'm not sure if it's a really big concern if all the problem may be that media player is running slow... Your choice... you could take it back and get a replacement and see if it still happens...

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Jul 2, 2003, 04:05 PM

ask catalyst maker... he might now

NucleuZ · Jul 4, 2003, 09:00 AM

I suggest you use WinAmp instead...lots of nice visualizations available!

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Jul 4, 2003, 09:08 AM

Wait before you go off and reinstall windows take in consideration that my friend that is running a 3200+ with a 9800 is haveing problems with the Windows Media vizzy as well.....i dont know why.

sinjin · Jul 4, 2003, 09:58 AM

wmp is a bloated piece of crap. you might just have too many processes active while running it.

Logla · Jul 4, 2003, 11:20 AM

Na, not the processes. Even with things at a bare minimum it does this. Its as if there is no video driver installed and everything video runs a bit slower.

Shrink · Jul 4, 2003, 11:35 AM

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Originally posted by Logla
Na, not the processes. Even with things at a bare minimum it does this. Its as if there is no video driver installed and everything video runs a bit slower.

The bug with stuttery visualizations has been reported to ATI and they are aware of it. As far as I know, there is not yet a fix (though you may want to make sure you are running the latest 3.5 Catalyst drivers and disable theater mode in the overlay options).

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Jul 4, 2003, 11:36 AM

Logla does it look like its rendering it? Cuz that what my friends does on his 9800

Logla · Jul 4, 2003, 11:49 AM

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Originally posted by Sourcer_2002
Logla does it look like its rendering it? Cuz that what my friends does on his 9800

When you say rendering it do you mean like its drawing one or two frames/images every second.
If so, thats what its doing.

Judas · Jul 5, 2003, 01:10 AM

After getting used to winamp and whatnot, it's rather a nice change from window media player.. it's a good consideration...