i installed windows vista home premium on my laptop...ive noticed that movies on the internet and windows media player studder...does anyone else have this problem and how can i fix it...

 

I'm sorry.....




Sorry I cant help either, not going to vista just yet.

 

What are the specs on the laptop? If you don't know the specs what make/model is it?
Did you have XP on it before and did movies work well then?

 

i have a Sony Vaio K Series...it has a pentium 4 processor 3.2 gigahertz, 512 Ram, 70 Gig Hardrive...i had XP and everything worked fine on it...everything works fine on Vista except for this...

 

I don't have Vista so you can take what I suggest with a grain of salt. I would try turning off some of the Vista eye candy first, if that doesn't help look in the Display properties and see if you can find a place to adjust the Graphics/Hardware Acceleration setting.
512mb of ram is actually below the minimum requirements for Home Premium. If it was me I would add more ram if I was intent on keeping Vista and running it the way it was meant to be run. Not saying that's your problem, I would just at least try to meet the minimum requirements. Actually I would double what MS suggests but I've been called crazy before for suggesting that.

 

Nope your right on track with what everyone is saying, Vista is a memory hog and many are saying you need closer to 2GB of ram to run it and any other memory hog program like Photoshop for example smoothly.

Edited to add:
Yea your at 1/2 the minimum microsoft suggests....
You need to atleast double your ram to run Vista

 

Could also try updating the video drivers. Does that one have the ATI video?

Yes PSS-Mag, that's what I've heard too. Something like 800mb just to see your desktop. If I ever upgrade to Vista I think I'll double my ram to a full 4gb.

 

Vista takes about 2 gig to run smoothly. I have Vista 64 ulimate on my Acer Ferrari 3ghz AMD 64 Turion with 1 gig ram and it ran but it wasn't buttery smooth like XP pro.

 

If that has the ATI chip I'm not even sure if there is an updated driver for it or if there is, which one it would be. I don't think it would help much though either way. I think the ram is bottlenecking you. Probably better off turning off all the extras you can.

 

I ran 98 until 2-3 years ago, it seems like I just learning to tweak XP to perfrom to my liking. I only have 2 that are Vista compatable and yes I'll max theer memory out too if I ever decide to upgrade them to Vista. I dont see it hapening though. I'll get vista in a coule years when I upgrade to new machines.

 

i just checked all the drivers and they are all up to date on everything...i will double my RAM and hope that fixes everything...what a good name for ram...

 

You probably need to install new codecs. Check out download.com for codecs, and you should find what you need. I use Cole 2 media codecs on my Vista Home Prem. machine and it fixed my probs.

 

I'm thinking of going over to the darkside........remember me telling you about getting a laptop? Well, it's gonna be a MacBook. If I like it, then I will go 100%

 

I'd go if PC wasn't so much darn cheaper, I loved the macs at my old job.

 

I'm at a crossing in life.......


After many years of upgrading, replacing RAM, HD's, video cards, NIC's, mother boards, CD/DVD ROM's, power supplies, CPU's, heat sinks, fans, fighting hackers and viruses, F'n with MicroDump's **** poor attempts at OS's and software........you know what I'm talking about, I've about had it.

I want something I can depend on.....not WORK on.