graphic card and divx

[borisha]

hi,
i have this pentium II at 400 MHz with sis620 (onboard) graphic card, 96 MB RAM (8 MB for graphic card) and i am running win2k at this machine.the problem is that divx movies are very hard to watch at my computer because it is skipping a lot of frames. what to do.? i tried divx4.0 codec and microdvd player, radlight, windows media player but things are not much better.do i have to buy a better graphics card???
thanks

[Lycia]

Have you tried these movies on another PC? It could be that the original encoding could be bad...and not related to your system..

[borisha]

yes i have tried to play them on some other pc's and they look good at some better computers (i.e. pentium III 766 MHz, 128 MB RAM, tnt graphic card.

[NDD]

New DiVX v5.0.2 codec should be faster. My friend is able to watch DiVX movies on PII-266MHz with 2MB S3 Virge/DX videocard. Be sure you turning the "quality" slider all the way down.

[$1500-P4 gamer]

Yes keep the quality setting all the way down on that sys.For better quality and high frame rates I recomend at least a P3 600mhz and 128mb ram with a G2 (more vid mem)or similar.


P.S. Sounds like it could be a ram prob. as win2k eats mem for breakfast. Have you tried a mem optimizer and then running the movies? Try memturbo or similar once. If it helps it is the lack of mem. that is the prob. This will cause stuttering in the movie. See if the HDD blinks when it is skipping. I wouldnt bother running 2k with less than 128mb and 256mb is by far recomended.:t

[borisha]

i also tried to watch these movies in win98 and situation was the same. guess it is not a memory problem. i am using microdvd player and do not know where to change those quality things...

[Bizkitkid2001]

I don't think its necesarry to put the settings all the way down. I have a pentium II 300MHz machine sitting in the corner that can play divx movies with the settings bar in the middle. But it has a 32mb vid card. So I'm not shure if there is a big defference.