11-11-2001, 02:01 PM
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Choppy DVD playback
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. |
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11-11-2001, 02:07 PM
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Commander
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: NYC
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right click on desktop goto settings hit advance then go to performance and check hardware acc.
hope this helps |
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11-11-2001, 03:20 PM
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Check your device manager. Your IDE controller should be set to DMA.
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11-11-2001, 07:52 PM
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Commander
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thanks
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? |
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11-11-2001, 10:18 PM
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Admiral
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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.
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