Lag in Smoke On?

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necigrad
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Lag in Smoke On?

Post by necigrad » Fri Nov 24, 2006 4:33 am

I know it's not the .mpeg, but I get a lot of lag on my 1.8 AMD with 1.25gb RAM, especially in the last 1/4 of the show. Are others having this problem? Would burning onto a DVD and playing back as DVD help? Is that possible?

BTW, WAY better then I remembreed :-)
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Re: Lag in Smoke On?

Post by Lawndart » Fri Nov 24, 2006 7:52 am

necigrad wrote:I know it's not the .mpeg, but I get a lot of lag on my 1.8 AMD with 1.25gb RAM, especially in the last 1/4 of the show. Are others having this problem? Would burning onto a DVD and playing back as DVD help? Is that possible?

BTW, WAY better then I remembreed :-)
You may see lag if your computer doesn't have the latest windows media player update/codec, not enough free memory (physical + virtual) and/or too many background applications running.
  1. Download an update (or just new codec's) to your player.
  2. Check your virtual memory so that other programs can be "pushed" into the page file while your player is in use.
  3. Check your task manager and see how much else you have running in the background (tasks)? Note anything that seems to hog a lot of memory and terminate it (unless it's a required Windows task).
  4. Type in "msconfig" under "Run..." in the start menu and temporarily disable everything under the "Startup" tab. This will free up many resources and should allow the movie to playback smoother. If it does, then you can also get to the bottom of which task/program is causing it by the process of elimination.
Hope this points you in the right direction!

Burning it to a DVD would likely solve the stuttering problem you're having; however, unless you have software to burn and a player that can playback HD DVD you will lose a lot of pixel quality when downgrading to DVD standard. That standard is 480p (vertical pixels), while Smoke On is currently 720p. It will look decent, but a little blurrier than the wmv file(s) we released.


Thanks for your comment! :D
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Post by necigrad » Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:54 pm

"Upon further review" (yeah football season :-)) the lag is my computer. I've been having HDD issues on my laptop since I bought it but "nothing is wrong". Formats fix it for a while, so...

I was thinking about burning it to DVD and playing it on the laptop. I would imagine playing it as a DVD would reduce the CPU power needed. Not sure if I'm thinking right though.

Either way, it was better then on the widescreen, and if my desktop can handle it it'll be 5.1 or 6.1 :-)
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