 Windows Media Player 11 Visualization, oddly poor performance |
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 Dec 15 2006, 04:23 AM
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Newbie [Level 2]  Group: Members Posts: 35 Joined: 13-November 06 Member No.: 33,272  |
My windows media player 11 has seemed to have developed a problem. Well actulally it has always been doing this. I am running a P4 (2.8GHz with 512 ram, 64MB vram), and when I try to activate the visualization in WMP 11 all it is horribly slow and pixelized. I would guess about 5 fps
Normally I would just accept this and keep saving for a new computer but the second that there is something covering even part of the visualization screen, it ups it's performance. If you put a separate window over the vis screen (even the slightest corner of a window) the performance ups to a good level and the CPU usage will drop from about 80% to 30%. This has had me confused and I was wondering if anyone else had seen this. |
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Dec 15 2006, 07:04 AM
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apt-get moo  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,054 Joined: 28-May 05 From: Hertfordshire, England Member No.: 7,593  |
Yeah, this happened to me with every version of WMP I have had on my old PC, but not on the new one. The only difference between the two that I could think would be causing it is that the old computer has an integrated graphics chip, while my new PC has a dedicated graphics card.
My laptop, however, (2.2GHz, 1024MB RAM) has integrated graphics and yet can still display the visualisations fine, even when I am running multiple other, quite intensive, applications. Presumably this is down to the extra RAM compared to the 256MB I have on my old desktop. |
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Dec 29 2006, 09:16 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 357 Joined: 8-April 06 Member No.: 21,487 |
i agree rvalkass
my laptop has 2.4 GHZ , 256MB Ram but my mediaplayer is very slow and i can not work with this action , if i can remove version 11 please guide me to unistall version 11 to version 10 thanks |
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Dec 31 2006, 04:31 AM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 660 Joined: 31-August 06 From: Singapore Member No.: 29,189 |
With regards to WMP 11, I only installed it on my desktop I bought 3 years ago, which is a 2.66 GHz and 512 MB RAM with a Nvidia GeForce 6200 128 MB Graphics Card. I don't see any problems with the visualisation in my player.
However I may have a solution, I experienced this when I just bought my Graphics card. I did not install the drivers yet and when I clicked and held onto the scrollbar in my firefox, it was lagging tremendously bad, it took 2-3 seconds for it to move down. After I installed my graphics card driver, the problem was fixed. I think you should try looking for your graphics card manufacturer and install the driver of that particular model. I am not going to install WMP 11 in my notebook though, in fact I am not going to install anything new from Microsoft (IE 7, Microsoft Office 2007, WMP 11 .... etc) till 2 years after Vista's release so that there not be any unnecessary bugs. QUOTE(PolZegerully @ Dec 15 2006, 04:26 PM)  Hello all! This is my first time on this site. I would like to tell what I really like the topic "Windows Media Player 11 Visualization". I've been reading it for a while, and I have learned so much here. So, I decided to try my luck asking a few questions... How can you IM, PM or whatever you call it to certain members? . I'd like to ask more questions about this project. By the way, nice domain name www.trap17.com. Welcome to Trap17 forums! You can PM other members by going to the my controls link at the top-right hand side or through this link http://www.trap17.com/forums/my-controls.htmle From there, you can click on compose a new message or go here http://www.trap17.com/forums/compose-new-message.html and you just need the nickname of the person you want to PM and type in your message. There! You are good to go 
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Jan 4 2007, 05:56 AM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 623 Joined: 26-August 05 Member No.: 11,160 |
I have also noticed it beeing slow and it has locked up on me a few times. Microsoft's work has been to great with their new stuff comming out. Even Vista wasn't that great in a lot of peoples opions. Windows Media player 11 had a few small upgrades like media sharing but it still kind of buggy in my opion.
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Jan 4 2007, 12:47 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 165 Joined: 17-May 06 Member No.: 23,815 |
try using a media player that works. vlc is great, even if it doesn't have all the unnecessary bells and whistles that WMP comes with, but at least it works. What do you want the visualisations for in the first place?? You can turn the off, you know...
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Jan 4 2007, 02:37 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 152 Joined: 25-October 06 Member No.: 32,191 |
Guess old computers doesn't support it...
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Jan 5 2007, 03:38 AM
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Member [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 62 Joined: 11-July 05 Member No.: 9,266 |
Hmm. WMP...
I like iTunes more. Easier to keep your collection of music, video, podcasts etc organized. Not everytime loading that library. Just one library with links to the songs in the library in the playlists. And the visualization is not that memory-intensive and pretty nice. Very simple. |
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Jan 6 2007, 06:00 AM
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Newbie [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 35 Joined: 13-November 06 Member No.: 33,272 |
Sorry it took so long to get back to this form.
Thanks for the tip on updating your video driver, I got this computer a few months ago, surprisingly updating the drivers never crossed my mind. And yea I know you can turn off the visualizations but sometimes it's relaxing just to stare at them until you are dizzy. And as for switching media players, I have come to like the WMP 11 interface, and non of the others are are good. I am sure itunes is a good media player, and i hate Microsoft as much as the next guy but I hate apple even more. |
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