| My computer stutters !
Posted: 9/27/2008 4:44:17 PM | It could be a number of reasons why your computer is stuttering. You could just have a very old computer. For example I have a Compaq brand with Intel Celeron Pentium 4 2.66ghz with just 512k on die cache and 512mb of ram and only an onboard video card
(I know it is time to upgrade).
So playing certain video formats could easily tax your computer especially if you have a lot of processes running in the background- such as active firewall, real time spyware or anti-virus scanner among others.
You may need to disable a few of those processes if you can. For example if you have firefox and too many tabs open and on flash heavy sites such as myspace and youtube then close those tabs or even better close out firefox.
If it isn't those issues then maybe you have a virus or malware you are unaware of. Get a good program to clean it up. Run them in safe mode.
Also I noticed that certain video formats give me issues on my ancient system when played with certain media players. For example when I play WMV files with VLC player, I noticed that they kind of blur at certain points and especially if I try to fast forward. But they play find with no issues, artifacts, ghosting, pixelation or stuttering when played with Windows media.
Lastly maybe your harddrive is heavily fragmented. Defragging may help | |
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