Give us some additional information.  IE:  What video are you trying to play, games or movies  ?.  What video card do you have now ?   How much main memory do you have on the system  ?  Does this happen during normal computer use  ? 

I am experiencing flutter while watching video in Media center. Video source is an rg6 cable from cable co. connected to the dial tuner card that came with computer. configured for cable ready.

 

I have 4G ram

Nvidia 7950 dual 1G cards quad sli.

 

problem is intermittant, not constant, but continues sporadically without ever going away.

Try playing the video in Windows Media Player and open up the tasklist and watch the process resources while you do this. See if you notice anything unusual.

 

Can you replicate the problem in WMP?

 

Let us know,

 

Mike

Whoops--I meant to ask what would be "unusual" in the resources window?

What would be "unusual" in task list?

 

Stuttering starts and stops randomly. I can't determine a specific cause that would enable me to make it happen.

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GeorgeGreenberg wrote:

Whoops--I meant to ask what would be "unusual" in the resources window?

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The problem with intermittant problems is that they are intermittant :-)

So far all morning, no stutter. Will return to tv this eve and keep watching.

Thanks

I wonder if your anti-virus or taskschedular is coming on during playback.

 

Get back to us,

 

Mike

If you are using driver 93.71 I would suggest either one of two fixes.

 

1. Shut off SLI while watching video. 

 

2. Roll back to 91.47 this will allow you to keep SLI on.

 

93.71 doesn't support the media center extensions.  I have the same issues and found these both work.

 

 

 

 

Whoops! Interesting development -- if I open task manager during stutter, stutter stops. Don't know what that means,but as task mgr uses display it seems to be create a change that stops stutter.

 

My Nvidia driver is 9.3.1.2

 

Stutter is still there but just comes and goes randomly. Nothing unusual in task manager or resources.

 

I intend to update to vista in a few weeks and will hope it makes a difference, or if it doesn't I will probably contact Dell for help. So far I have not done that because I cannot  make stutter occur at will and assume there will not be anything for them to analyse.

 

Thanks for your input. / George

Below procedure will provide a faster boot up, and eliminate wasting memory on programs that are not in use at this time and may help in gaming as well.

http://netsquirrel.com/msconfig/  Fair reading on start up programs


Start Up Programs: Click on START, Click on Run, than put in the box MSCONFIG Click OK. Now you are in the System Configuration Utility Program. Click on START UP you see on the top of this Utility Program. Uncheck the programs from here that you do not want to start at boot up, leaving the anti virus, and any third party firewall alone. You can always go back into this program to restart them. They will not be uninstalled. Click on APPLY, than it will ask you if you wish to reboot the system. Do so. After it boots up again, you will be presented with another window from the System Configuration Utility Program telling you that you have made an adjustment. If you don't want to see this pop up each time you boot up, put a check mark in the little box in the lower left corner of this announcement.

http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php  Link to a site that can explain what you have starting up, if you do not already know, and which ones you can safely un-check. It’s a long list. Or you can Google Search for what is showing in the Msconfig program, and see what it is...

Hi George,

 

When the stutter occurs do you notice hard disk access?

 

Sounds like a possible background service is running while the system is 'idle'.

 

Try disabling all non-MS services from Msconfig and checking all your startup items.

 

See if that helps.

 

-Mike

9.3.1.2 isnt a valid driver number. Are you in the US?

 

 

Sorry--It's my age--early alzheimers I think. Its 7950-GX2  I will be more careful in future. This new to me