Display Performance Problem ?

[aviwil]

I have a Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 on a HP Pavillion dv600 laptop with a 1.80 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and 2MB memory and Vista Home 32 Premium . I don't play games on it . I rarely ever have any display problems . Worst thing may be if I skip forward on a HD movie , it can be a bit jumpy/scrambled before it "resyncs" . One problem I do have however , is if I view an Adobe pdf file from , say some magazine article , and then magnify it , say 100 % , to enable me to read it , if I scroll down or accross , it just get's stuck , and I have to wait a good few seconds for it to catch up . A similar thing happens if I open a large disc saved web page from say , Wickepedia , even without magnification - if I view the Wickepedia page on the actual web site , then I don't get this problem .
Is this a display card problem , or is there some setting somewhere which will rectify it ?
Thanks .

 

[habbakuk87]

How much system ram do you have?
The sync problem may be because media player you is unable to buffer the video or you have a slow hdd or a fragmented hdd.The adobe problem most probably is because of low ram.

 

[aviwil]

Thanks habbakuk87 . the specs I entered above should read 2 GB and not 2 MB .

 

[habbakuk87]

You are welcome and that is good amount of RAM,go into your BIOS and increase the amount of RAM that IGP can share with the system(around 256MB or 348 MB I believe).Also, download and install the latest driver for graphics card and rest of the system.Use the latest version of whatever software you use to play your HD content.My suggestions are using coreavc(payware) or ffdshow(free,get latest version from http://www.xvidvideo.ru/content/category/1/4/5/ + get media player classic).Also see if defragging the HDD helps.

 

[aviwil]

Thanks habbakuk87 for those tips . I still have not tried the BIOS fix . For everyone's info , I was advised by someone to use Foxit instead of Adobe Reader , and , amazing all the pdf problems disappeared ! Smooth easy reading of pdf files - no problem .