[Help] Problems with GeForce4 Ti 4400 and WMP

[Dartigan]

System Specs:

Abit AT7-MAX2 Mobo
Running latest BIOS (DD)

AMD Athlon 2600+ @ 2.13 GHz

1 GB Kingston DDR333 RAM

2x Western Digital "Special Edition" 80GB 7200RPM (8MB Cache) on RAID-0 Array

PNY Verto 4400 (GF4 Ti 4400)
Running WinXP Detonators:
Version: 45.23 Release Date: August 13, 2003 WHQL Certified

WinXP SP1 /w all pertinent Windows Updates installed.


The Problem:
I have been trying to watch some of the High Definition trailers for Windows Media Player 9 (link) to no avail. The video does play, but it drops frames something horrible. On WMP9, the sound is fine, but the video is garbage. I downloaded Zoom Player (link), and the video is better, but the audio drops out.

I went into Display Properties > Advanced > GeForce4 Ti 4400 Properties > Performance & Quality Settings - and changed Image Settings from "High Quality" to "High Performance." That helped a bit, but the video is still unwatchable.

I tried changing the priority of WMP to "High" through processes, and then to "Real Time." That also improved it a little, but I'm still dropping ~50% of the frames. Even with WMP set on "Normal" priority, my CPU usage spikes from 0-1% to 100% on viewing the video.

I'm running a clean system; I keep nothing in msconfig or startup. So, no worry of any other programs hogging the CPU.

If anyone has any ideas/suggestions as to why I can't watch these trailers or how I may be able to correct the problem, please let me know. I exceed the hardware requirements to view them, so it's gotta be a software problem somewhere.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Dartigan]

^^ Bump

 

[StraightPipe]

Welcome to Anandtech!

(hey jeff)

/shoots into dark

what size are the trailers (MB)? sometime with large ones my system will do that, but thats usually after 60mins+, and that was before i went to the exact same RAID0 setup your on (Xcept adaptec 1200a PCI RAID card)

you can try Divx player (but dont get the one with adware, it comes w/ gator)

if you cant get the free one off there site let me know i thik i kept a copy of the install file

is your antivirus messing things up?

also, it could posbly (slim posbly) be the actuall file, try redownloading it.

Edit: have you got a link to the file?

 

[Dartigan]

Here's a link to the trailers: (link)

I tried several of them (redownloaded as well). The 6.4 Mbps T2 one ran the best, of course, but still not like it should have.

I have the DivX player already, but no longer have the trailers. I'll snag them later as I'm dead tired now. As for my antivirus, I run it manually, so it sits disabled 99% of the time.

 

[NYHoustonman]

It says they recommend ~9800pro...But man, thanks for the links, that is hella high quality...

 

[StraightPipe]

ugg, my dsl just go shut off, so i'm limited by my use at work/school, but it should be back up this week, i'll let you know if i can watch them smoothly with my 9700.