P4 & Divx

[thanish04]

Hello everyone... my system is P4. 2.4A Prescot with 1m L2 cache... 512 dual ddr.... creative riva tnt 32 ( i'm not a gamer)... my question is... i recently did a comparisons with my bro's pc which is 256mb ram barton 2500+ overclocked to 3200+.. geforce 2 gts... we tried to run 4 divx clips at the same time... he's is running smoothly... but mine jerks when open the 4th clip.. i just wanna know wether the graphic card have impact on performance when playing divx..... i also tried with mine overclocked to 3.0ghz but still the same.... any suggestions....

 

[Spitfire_x86]

Most possibly, your graphics card is holding you back

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[peteroy]

tnt cards are from 1998 and are weak weak weak.

DivX was invented in 2001 as far as I remember.

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[Ned_Flanders]

TNT2 Cards are teh l337est!!!

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[Guest]

6 years ago ;-) Diamond V770 Ultra was hot! Woot 125mhzCore/150mhzmem Wooot! Dont forget the 300mhz ramdac.
Buy a cheap vid card it wil be faster...

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[etp777]

To the best of my knowledge, the DivX decoder solely relies on CPU, not your video card(though I'd still replace your video card if you play games, or plan to). I'd look into other problems, particularly something like a memory leak/slow swap file access, as you say it doesn't happen until the 4th clip, rather than that it's always slow.

 

[endyen]

Make sure your memory is running at 133, async sucks.

 

[Crashman]

I overclocked a TNT2 to 185/166 (DDR333) and it passed an MX200 in every test I through at it. Remember the MX200 had the same RAM as the TNT2, but at 64-bits instead of 128!

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[thanish04]

hello there....

thank u guys for all the replies... i'll try to oc my tnt2 and see... how it fares.. and wats the average points for alu test and multimedia benchmarks in SiSoft SANDRA u guys got if any of u usung p42.4a.....

 

[Vapor]

You do realize you have one of the best OCing chips available...right? A swift bump to 3.2GHz should most likely solve your problem...and if it doesn't, it's your TNT2 slowing you down.

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[thaloc]

I don't think Your problems are CPU-related.
1. It may be vid card, but not its speed but capabilities to display overlayed video. Some old cards have great problems with it, for example i815 integrated graph chip. My brother had one , it sometimes needed even 15s to switch to overlay, and some codecs/players where not able to use overlay at all.He solved his video-watching problems by buying cheapest GF4MX (he had Celeron 1200 CPU). BTW my VERY old CL5446-based video card (it was PCI graphics card with integrated TV-tuner) did not had any problems with displaying overlays. My later TNT M64 had, but moving to GF2MX helped. I don't think any new card should have any problems with overlay now.
2. Problem may be with codec itself. I use ffdshow codec to decode almost everything, and once I had problems with some clips encoded with newest versions of divx/xvid (video was very choppy, like showing every second frame). Downloading newest version of ffdshow helped . If you compare two machines by playing video clips, make sure they use the same codes, cofigured in the same way (deblocking and deringing are very CPU-intensive).

BTW my P4 2.8 Northwood is able to decode 1024x576 (biggest avi I got video with ffdshow postprocessing set to max without lagging, but ffdshow _is_ very fast. I know this becouse on my sister's Celeron 500 (with original Creative's GeForce 256 DDR regular DivX codec lags terribly with hi-res video, and ffdshow does just fine.

 

[thanish04]

Thanks alot for all the replies....

 

[jihiggs]

well, i just tried 4 divx movies at the same time, resized to quarter screen. all 4 play just fine, near as i can tell the audio is fine too. my system is an xp 1700 and a radeon 9500pro.

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