playing videos w/ x21 and 128mb RAM w/ winXP OS

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n00b1337 · #1 Post by **n00b1337** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:46 pm

i've been looking around locally for some 144-pin PC100 RAM without much success so i'm stuck playing with my x21 and 128mb RAM for now. playing videos seems to be kind of choppy. wondering how big of a difference it will make once i get my hands on a 256mb stick of RAM? is my RAM holding me back or the 4mb of video memory??

Quattro · #2 Post by **Quattro** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 1:22 am

128mb RAM is a definite bottleneck when running XP. 256 should free things up nicely.

bronevaya · #3 Post by **bronevaya** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 3:25 pm

I have 196mb in mine and videos play fine, try using a different video player, the ms media player sucks anyways.

www.videolan.org

asiafish · #4 Post by **asiafish** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:21 pm

Also go into device manager and make sure the ATA controller for your DVD drive (heck, do both of them) is set to DMA mode, if it is on PIO mode you will always get choppy playbacl.

playing videos w/ x21 and 128mb RAM w/ winXP OS

playing videos w/ x21 and 128mb RAM w/ winXP OS

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