Does Winamp do this in Win2K for you?

[RSI]

In Win98 and WinME, if you click on an MP3 in a folder somewhere it plays right away. Well, in Win2K it takes about an entire second. If I am in Winamp and I click open, though, and click on a song, it plays instantly.

Anybody know why it does this? Could be because I'm using a K6-2/412 & 96MB ram, but everything else seems to be fine (I run in 1280x1024 on my 15" and Banshee with 30 IEs open and ICQ, no problems [lag]), all my games run fine, and fast as well.

So far this is my only problem with 2K ... damn winamp. :|

 

[han888]

may be u need more memory?? i am not really sure, but so far win2k need more memory

 

[RSI]

Read my message more carefully.

Of course I could do with more memory, but just Winamp, no matter what, runs like that... Other things run excellently as well, but obviously if I pile up things and multitask more it will lag alot, earlier than in 98, because it's more resource-demanding...

-RSI

 

[BudB]

You might disable Winamp Agent if you have it enabled.

 

[RSI]

I do everything the same way as I do in Win98, and in Win98 it's lagless, in Win2K it isn't... That's what disturbs me.

I'll check for the agent thingy, but I doubt I have it enabled.

-RSI

Edit: Nope, the agent is not enabled.

 

[BCYL]

My guess is that extra second is used by win2k to load Winamp, therefore you don't see that delay when you open a file in winamp (cuz it's already loaded)...

Maybe the reason you don't see that in win98 or winME is because these OSs works fine with the system you have... but win2k needs more memory and resources (I know you said this already, but that's what I think)...

Keep in mind this is my guess only... I may be wrong...

 

[RSI]

Thanks for the reply.

But earlier I checked and I had ~50 or so megs free, out of 96MB.

-RSI

 

[digitalman]

one of the differences between the 95/98/ME core vs the NT/2000 core is in the hardware abstraction layer (read about it). What this does is controls how the operating system accesses the hardware. In Win95/98/ME the HAL is very thin, this allows quicker, more responcive hardware speeds. This is one of the reasons that some games run better in these 3 OS's. In NT/2000 the HAL is thicker. this offers more stablity and reliability.

that being said, when you click the song it is taking an extra second to load winamp and access the soundcard through the HAL. whereas if winamp is already loaded the process of accessing the soundcard through winamp has already been preformed when the program started.

I could totally be off, but this seemed to be a logical reason for what is going on and not just advice to add more ram....




...now, more ram is always nice though, but it has nothing to do with this. hope this helps things to make more sense. if nothing else learning about the HAL will help you understand why hardware in Win2000 is used differently then Win98/Me
dm

 

[noxipoo]

BTW in w2k, i have the winamp agent diabled but it still runs on startup. kill it in task manager.

 

[RSI]

That won't stop it from starting up every time.

-RSI