Video/sound skipping on m70vn

Hello.
I've had Asus m70vn for some time now and I have noticed frequent frame skipping (or how should I call it) while watching movies. Sometimes it is accompanied by sound skipping as well. This is happening in every video, but if I'm only listening to music in Winamp, the problem is not so common (maybe one skip in a long time, because of overload).
Skipping was also present in game (Racedriver GRID) but when it appeared, I just restarted the game and it was perfect from than on.
I have updated nvidia drivers and the problem remains.

 

Depending on your RAM and HD resources, playing media (any kind) will use a lot of RAM. If you have no way to reclaim unused RAM from the system that wasn't returned, RAM resources become critical and your system will then use your HD as virtual RAM device. The combination of low RAM resources and the system using your HD to compensate is what causes the slowdown and skipping effect, sometimes even resulting in a freeze.

When you start a program, it needs a specific amount of RAM in order to load and run. However, when you shut that program down, the amount of RAM that the program needed and was allocated by the system isn't returned back to the system at 100% - there is always less RAM given back than is used. Over time if you haven't restarted your system, or you don't have a utility to monitor/reset the RAM when resouces reach critical levels, RAM resources will continue to decrease over time until the system needs to use your HD to compensate.

If you have a 32 bit system, there's a great program called Memory Boost that monitors your available RAM and reclaims RAM from the system that wasn't given back. You can set the upper and lower limits too. I used it (still do) for years on my older desktop when RAM prices were really high and I only had 1/2 a gig of RAM, but I ran programs that were RAM intensive. The other great feature is that it will list the programs / processes running and give their RAM usage so you can tell which is the offender, and what program a process belongs to so you know if it's okay to shut down or not.

While you can use it in a 64 bit system, I've found it doesn't work completely due to the differences between system types. But it's still a good monitor of system resources since the icon is in the System Tray if you wish to put it there.

Memory Boost is available at this link, and has a free 15 day trial of the full version. Give it a try and see if it helps your problem, which I'm betting it will.
http://tinyurl.com/8kcy34

PM me if you need help setting it.

 

The thing happens even at fresh restart, so I don't believe that this should be the problem. But I have alson noticed, that when the skip appears in movie, the disk usage goes to 100% for just that moment when the skip appeared. I have also been changing pagefile, but with no success. What else should it be?

I am running my system with 4gb's of RAM and 64 bit Vista..