Choppy video play

[joe giraffe]

Hi,

When I attempt to play any type of video or video games at full screen or doublesize resolution, the display becomes slow and choppy.

Is there a way to check whether this is due to the computer being slow or due to videocard incompatibility?

My friend who gave me the PC says it's the latter case, but I am not so sure. The PC is a Pentium II 333 MHZ, with a 128 RAM, which I believe is quite slow to run WinXP.

Anyone have any suggestion for checking?

Thank you.

[NOTEKY]

Considering P4 processors are now over 3.3GHz (the .3 being what you have), I
doubt it's the latter too!

NOTEKY

"joe giraffe" wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> When I attempt to play any type of video or video games at full screen
> or doublesize resolution, the display becomes slow and choppy.
>
> Is there a way to check whether this is due to the computer being slow
> or due to videocard incompatibility?
>
> My friend who gave me the PC says it's the latter case, but I am not so
> sure. The PC is a Pentium II 333 MHZ, with a 128 RAM, which I believe is
> quite slow to run WinXP.
>
> Anyone have any suggestion for checking?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> --
> joe giraffe
>

[joe giraffe]

My old pc was a Pentium 200, with also 128 RAM, but it played full screen videos without problem. The OS was Win98.

Should I uninstall WinXp on the new PC and install Win98?

thanks

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

It's about the bare minimum specs for running XP.... and you're trying to
play games and videos.

Do yourself a favor. Donate the PC to your local Goodwill store and save up
for something a little faster!

Or remove XP and go back to Windows 98se or ME.
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging



"joe giraffe" > wrote in message
...
>
> Hi,
>
> When I attempt to play any type of video or video games at full screen
> or doublesize resolution, the display becomes slow and choppy.
>
> Is there a way to check whether this is due to the computer being slow
> or due to videocard incompatibility?
>
> My friend who gave me the PC says it's the latter case, but I am not so
> sure. The PC is a Pentium II 333 MHZ, with a 128 RAM, which I believe is
> quite slow to run WinXP.
>
> Anyone have any suggestion for checking?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> --
> joe giraffe

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

If you have a second copy of 98 yes, you can install it. However if the old
copy of 98 came with the old PC, you cannot install it, it belongs to the
old PC.

Windows 2000 would also work... and better than any of the 9x systems.

But it really is an old PC and not fast enough for today's applications.
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging



"joe giraffe" > wrote in message
...
>
> My old pc was a Pentium 200, with also 128 RAM, but it played full
> screen videos without problem. The OS was Win98.
>
> Should I uninstall WinXp on the new PC and install Win98?
>
> thanks
>
>
> --
> joe giraffe