Computer geek question coming at ya. lol

[Carl East]

I've recently downloaded some small movies, but in order to run them I have to turn everything else off, because my processor is only a 350mhz pentium II. What I'd like to know, is there a way to optimise my player for maximum efficiency. So that it takes up all available memory in order to play these movies comfortably.

Thx in advance.

Carl

 

[Guest]

Only thing I can think of is to turn all the pogram running off.

And get unconnected from the Net. Empty the bin, temp memory, and spam.

And the stories which you can't quite finish writing to the final form.

And them poems nobody's gonna read!

 

[Liar]

I've recently downloaded some small movies, but in order to run them I have to turn everything else off, because my processor is only a 350mhz pentium II. What I'd like to know, is there a way to optimise my player for maximum efficiency. So that it takes up all available memory in order to play these movies comfortably.

Thx in advance.

Carl

What's your OS version?

#L, renegage tech support

 

[Carl East]

Re: Re: Computer geek question coming at ya. lol

What's your OS version?

XP Liar.

Carl

 

[Liar]

Re: Re: Re: Computer geek question coming at ya. lol

XP Liar.

Carl

Then you have easy access to a performance meter, and process manager. I don't know what it is called in English, but it's the thing that pops up when you hit Ctrl-Alt-Del. There you can shut down all kinds of apps running in the background to free up system resources. Takes a little savvyness to know which ones that are ok to kill. Rule of thumb would be: Anything that is tagged SYSTEM, rundll32.exe and explorer.exe should always stay.

XP itself might actually be a part of your problem. It's pretty good and stable, but hogs memory and CPU jiuce. On a 350 MHz PII, I'd suggest running Win 98 instead, if you can get hold of it. (Athough, if XP works fine otherwise, it's really too much trouble to remove it.)

#L

 

[Carl East]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Computer geek question coming at ya. lol

XP itself might actually be a part of your problem. It's pretty good and stable, but hogs memory and CPU jiuce. On a 350 MHz PII, I'd suggest running Win 98 instead, if you can get hold of it. (Athough, if XP works fine otherwise, it's really too much trouble to remove it.)

#L

I think I realized that myself, but as you said it is stable. I have got Win 98 and Win me but I always seemed to get problems with them. What I've done about my player problem though is whenever I want to view a film that I've saved on the hard drive I turn everything else off. That does make a difference, of course what I really need is a decent setup like the one I had before becoming homeless.

4.0 mhz/ 1000mb ram / 19" screen/ and a display card that blistered along at 256mb. God that was a machine and half.

Carl

 

[Weird Harold]

What I'd like to know, is there a way to optimise my player for maximum efficiency.

I'm not sure how to find the right place to adjust them, but somewhere onyour system ar settings for the buffer size and whether to use hardware acceleration for each of the different media types.

In Window 98 it's in the "system" icon in the Control Panel, in the Device Manager Listing. Right Click on each CODEC and select properties.


It sounds like you need to increase the buffer size and use as much "hardware acceleration" as your hardware will support.