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Full-screen movies in WMP are choppy...drivers or what?

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Hender

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I just noticed today that every time I try and watch a movie in Windows Media Player and switch it to full screen, performance of the movie becomes REALLY choppy. I thought it was just something with DivX (I'm using the 4.0 Beta3 codec), but then I noticed it was doing it on MPEG's, too. Example movies that are screwing up: Jew Lew's "The Killer Bean 2" and the Quake movie "Escape from the Bastille". My system is a Duron 750, 512 MB DDR-SDRAM, GeForce2 Pro 64 MB, Windows 2000 SP2. I tried switching video drivers when I noticed that it was MPEG's as well as AVI's that were becoming choppy, so I went from the 12.41 drivers to the 14.10 drivers, but the results were the same.

Anyone have any ideas? I'm using the latest version of Windows Media Player 7, and I'm back to the 12.41 Detonator3's. I've tried fooling with the Performance settings in WMP, but no change. I know the movies themselves aren't screwed up because I can play the same movies on my PIII 800 laptop full screen and they play just great. I can play QuickTime4 movies at full screen, which is interesting, because those are more CPU-intensive than DivX and MPEG's.
 
what version of wmp are u using? did u recently upgrade? i still use 6.4 without problems, i have heard veeeery bad things about wmp 7 (bloated, slower, screws up mp3s). other than that, maybe lower ure desktop res to 16bit (less of a mem hog).

anyway, bump for the best short: Killer Bean 2!!!

cheers
 
I'm running WMP v7.0, the latest version. I am running at 32-bit color depth, but I tried 16-bit with the same results. The movies ran perfectly on my PIII 550 with a Voodoo3 3000 AGP--same movies, same version of WMP v7.0--on my old computer, but not on my new one. This one's just baffling me.
 
If it works on the laptop, then try and replicate the laptop's settings in your desktop. A laptop's color depth is less than 20 . . . usally runs at Hi-Color (16-bit) at 800 x 600.

Do you use the same betaware on the laptop?
 
All the WMP settings are the same (they were the default settings), and my laptop is running at 1400x1050x32, so the resolution is actually higher on the laptop.

Yeah, the DivX codec is the same version.
 
I'm more interested in watching these on my monitor since they aren't MOVIE movies, but rather short clips that last a few minutes. DVD movies play just fine.
 
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