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Windsor
11-11-2001, 01:01 PM
Like the title says, I'm getting choppy DVD playback with my HP 9900 drive and ATI 64mb DDR card. Its beyond me why, though, cause I have plenty of ram and computing power...

Any suggestions? I'm going to try to d/l Directx 8.1 to see if it'll help... This is Win2k, btw.
SpeedEng
11-11-2001, 01:07 PM
right click on desktop goto settings hit advance then go to performance and check hardware acc.

hope this helps
Apex
11-11-2001, 02:20 PM
Check your device manager. Your IDE controller should be set to DMA.
Windsor
11-11-2001, 06:52 PM
Apex got it right. I installed another DVD player from HP and it changed it to DMA, and unknowingly, I fixed the problem:). Thanks guys, but now, can someone explain what DMA means, and what it does?
spigidygak
11-11-2001, 09:18 PM
DMA: Direct Memory Access. What this basically does is move its data from ram directly to the drive, making it faster by bypassing the cpu.