Windows XP, VV 2g and bad playback.
FadeToBlack
wrote on 8/12/2001, 9:45 AM
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Rahl
wrote on 8/12/2001, 4:31 PM
I have Windows XP, and everything has been working great so far. I just installed RC2, and had previously worked with RC1. Maybe what you should do is uninstall Vegas, then trash the it's folder that's located in your Program Files, and then re-install Vegas cleanly.
I am pretty sure I have a computer that is a lot weaker than yours. I have a AMD 6-2 550mhz, with 320 ram and 30 gigs of hard disk with a SoundBlaster Live value card and a 3dfx Voodoo Banshee card (16megs). In a month and a half I haven't had any problems at all with Windows XP. No crashed nothing. It even seems like everything is working a lot better.
Another suggestion would be to check you system hardware see if there's any conflicts.
Also, Is DMA compatible with your hard drive?
What kind of AVI compression have you used?
Give me your computer specs... I might be able to help in that departement.
I am pretty sure I have a computer that is a lot weaker than yours. I have a AMD 6-2 550mhz, with 320 ram and 30 gigs of hard disk with a SoundBlaster Live value card and a 3dfx Voodoo Banshee card (16megs). In a month and a half I haven't had any problems at all with Windows XP. No crashed nothing. It even seems like everything is working a lot better.
Another suggestion would be to check you system hardware see if there's any conflicts.
Also, Is DMA compatible with your hard drive?
What kind of AVI compression have you used?
Give me your computer specs... I might be able to help in that departement.
Rahl
wrote on 8/12/2001, 4:42 PM
Also you should try doing a defrag on your system, that might help...
jboy
wrote on 8/12/2001, 5:06 PM
Just out of curiosity, you guys running XP, what's the advantage over win2k, especially since, from all I've read, you've got to boost your cpu speed 30% for the same level of performance ?
FadeToBlack
wrote on 8/12/2001, 6:00 PM
billybk
wrote on 8/12/2001, 7:03 PM
Open the "System" manager in the "Control Panel".
Open the "Hardware Device Manager" and click on the "Hardware" tab. Double click on "Hardware
Device" to open the "Device Manager" screen. Go to
and click on the + sign and right click on "Primary
IDE Channel". Select "Properties", select "Advanced Settings" tab. Depending on how you have your drives configured, for Device 0 Transfer Mode: select DMA.
Do the same for Device 1 if applicable (I cannot since
that is used for my CDROM drive). Repeat the process
for the "Secondary IDE Channel". I would then go ahead
and re-boot the computer. This should solve your problem. The other thing to check is to make sure your
BIOS settings for your IDE drives are set to "Auto" detect. You really should not have to do this as they
normally default to this, but then you never know.
Anyway, I've been using XP(RC1) since last month and I
really like it a lot. As far as performance issues, having never used W2K, only WinME and Win98, I got a
14%-18% performance increase just from switching my
OS to XP. The way I look at it, W2K was the beta for
XP, since XP is really just an extension of W2K without
a lot of the growing pains W2K had when it first came out.
Billy Buck
Open the "Hardware Device Manager" and click on the "Hardware" tab. Double click on "Hardware
Device" to open the "Device Manager" screen. Go to
and click on the + sign and right click on "Primary
IDE Channel". Select "Properties", select "Advanced Settings" tab. Depending on how you have your drives configured, for Device 0 Transfer Mode: select DMA.
Do the same for Device 1 if applicable (I cannot since
that is used for my CDROM drive). Repeat the process
for the "Secondary IDE Channel". I would then go ahead
and re-boot the computer. This should solve your problem. The other thing to check is to make sure your
BIOS settings for your IDE drives are set to "Auto" detect. You really should not have to do this as they
normally default to this, but then you never know.
Anyway, I've been using XP(RC1) since last month and I
really like it a lot. As far as performance issues, having never used W2K, only WinME and Win98, I got a
14%-18% performance increase just from switching my
OS to XP. The way I look at it, W2K was the beta for
XP, since XP is really just an extension of W2K without
a lot of the growing pains W2K had when it first came out.
Billy Buck
Rahl
wrote on 8/12/2001, 8:27 PM
The problem might actually be with the Maxtor hard drive itself. I have two HD in my system, A Fujitsu 10gig (which DMA is accesible with ease) and a Maxtor 20gig (that stays in PIO mode). But even in Pio mode, I still don't get the same problems that you are having with video playback.
FadeToBlack
wrote on 8/12/2001, 8:49 PM
Former user
wrote on 8/13/2001, 1:00 PM
GG,
DMA Mode is off by default in Both Win 2K and Win XP. The easiest way to get things going is download XTeq Setup 6.1 from www.xteq.com.
This little freeware app is great and among other things, it allows you to enable DMA under Win 2K or Win XP. Look under the Hardware item...
Cheers,
Bruce
DMA Mode is off by default in Both Win 2K and Win XP. The easiest way to get things going is download XTeq Setup 6.1 from www.xteq.com.
This little freeware app is great and among other things, it allows you to enable DMA under Win 2K or Win XP. Look under the Hardware item...
Cheers,
Bruce
FadeToBlack
wrote on 8/13/2001, 2:18 PM
billybk
wrote on 8/13/2001, 4:07 PM
CG,
You should always, and I mean always do a clean
install of an OS. I have never experienced a problem
when doing a clean install, but I have heard of many
problems from people trying to install an OS over the top of an existing OS. When you start to co-mingle OS's
you are looking for trouble. Save yourself alot of potential headache and do a clean install. If you want to keep your exiting OS, XP will create a dual boot
for you on an existing partition. It is real easy, and
it guides you thru the process. But to do it, when you
install XP, you must already have an existing OS already installed. I had WinME already installed on my
computer. I had an empty partition on one of hard drives and installed XP to that partition. XP took care
of the rest. Now when I boot up, I am given the option to use WinME or XP. Very nice indeed.
Billy Buck
You should always, and I mean always do a clean
install of an OS. I have never experienced a problem
when doing a clean install, but I have heard of many
problems from people trying to install an OS over the top of an existing OS. When you start to co-mingle OS's
you are looking for trouble. Save yourself alot of potential headache and do a clean install. If you want to keep your exiting OS, XP will create a dual boot
for you on an existing partition. It is real easy, and
it guides you thru the process. But to do it, when you
install XP, you must already have an existing OS already installed. I had WinME already installed on my
computer. I had an empty partition on one of hard drives and installed XP to that partition. XP took care
of the rest. Now when I boot up, I am given the option to use WinME or XP. Very nice indeed.
Billy Buck