[Help]Why my computer moves slowly when watch vid.

[brucewong]

Hi guy lately my computer moves and reacts very slowly just when i watch any kinds of video files...AVI,RM,RMVB,etc...can you guys help me out and find out what cause this problem?Divers or hardwares?

Thanks

[gwai lo]

system specs? operating system? slow as in..the video? or the programs that operate while the video is running?

[Saadu]

I had that on my dad's gateway 999 p3 with intel's onboard drivers. even though i had installed the drivers, windows media player 10 did something which messed up the video playback. so i had to reinstall the drivers twice to get it to work. if that doesnt help, try force installing directX.

[stncttr908 Veteran]

If it's an older PC (which I'm assuming) then watching videos with certain codecs (divx, xvid) will take up quite a bit of its processing power.

[rbet]

^true. DivX movies crawl on my Celeron 500Mhz PC.