Graphics Problems [BFG GeForce 7600 GS OC 512MB DDR2 AGP]

[PaulJohno]

Hi guys,

I've had my card for two days:
"BFG GeForce 7600 GS OC 512MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (AGP) - Retail"

It appears to play fine with games and when running day to day programs on the PC. However, when I try to play a video file the PC slows down and I don't get anything apart from sound. When I hit the cross to close Windows Media Player 11, the screen then flicks black several times, before reloading back on the desktop very slowly indeed. It takes about 45seconds for all the icons to reload.

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

[PaulJohno]

A quick update on the previous post...

First off ive tried using another player apart from Windows Media Player 11, and I still get the same problem. Secondly, the CPU usage goes to 100% when I get this slowdown. I dont know if this is anything significant. Furthermore, before this card I had an ASUS Radeon 9200 SE, which wasnt a very good card, but i never had any problems playing movie files.

If anyone has ideas, please reply.
Cheers.

[pullmyfoot]

what are your complete system specs? oh and by the way you kinda wasted your money buying 512mb of ram on that video card since its a mid range card that can NEVER use so much ram. it probally would not even be able to fully utilise 256mb of ram

[JLK03F150]

Sounds like you need a codec. You can try this codecs pack from majorgeeks (Fla was much faster than Tx for me). It might help your problem.

[PaulJohno]

I'm completely satisfied with the card as far as gaming is concerned - so i dont mind paying the money. I'm just trying to solve the problem with the videos.

Here's some specs:

Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600)
ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7N8X2.0 REV 2.xx (Desktop)
2.10 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
- 128 kilobyte primary memory cache
- 512 kilobyte secondary memory cache
1024 Megabytes Installed Memory
- Slot 'DDR1' has 512 MB
- Slot 'DDR2' has 512 MB
- Slot 'DDR3' is Empty
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS [Display adapter]
WDC WD1200JD-00GBB0 [Hard drive] (120.03 GB) -- drive 1, s/n WD-WMAET1183563, rev 02.05D02, Smart Status: Healthy
WDC WD200EB-00CSF0 [Hard drive] (20.02 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WTAAV4560183, rev 04.01B04, Smart Status: Healthy

Let me know if you need any other information.

[PaulJohno]

Originally Posted by JLK03F150

Sounds like you need a codec. You can try this codecs pack from majorgeeks (Fla was much faster than Tx for me). It might help your problem.

Hi JLK03F150,

I've already downloaded numerous codec packs, including this one.
Unfortunately I still get insane CPU usage and slowdown from running small video files.

[pullmyfoot]

are you sure its not cuz your computer is just getting old? try reinstalling media player. and scanning your system for spyware and other crap. ok i didnt read that last post... try spybot or something

[PaulJohno]

Put it this way, my PC was running fine using an older graphics card 3 days ago. Since upgrading to a new graphics card I'm having problems in one are - playing video media. Apart from that its perfectly fine.

My PC has daily virus, spyware and adware scans, so I know it's not that.

[pullmyfoot]

try new drivers? maybe the video card drivers are really sccrewed up and are blooging down the CPU

[PaulJohno]

Hi pullmyfoot,

I think you may have just solved my problem. I installed the latest driver for the graphics card last night, and this is the first time I've played a video. I'll do a rollback now and see if reverting to the original drivers (provided on CD) solves it. Watch this space.