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    Lag playing HD videos in full screen?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by nehcrow, Aug 1, 2011.

  1. nehcrow

    nehcrow Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've used VLC, MPC-HC and they both feel jerky and laggy in full screen... what's up with that? I thought this laptop can handle 720p and 1080p but they just feel laggy, anyone know a solution to this problem?
     
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    What power settings are you using?
     
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    nehcrow Notebook Enthusiast

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    Balanced. The default on a new copy of windows
    I reinstalled with a fresh copy of windows, could this be a missing driver problem or...?
     
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    Try high performance and see if it plays smoothly but balanced should have been good enough I think. Are you running more programs in the background?
    Computer>system properties>device manager> see if you have all drivers installed from there (if you're missing a driver you will see a yellow icon)
     
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    Ok so apparently, the graphics card in my XPS 15 (nVidia GT 525M) can't handle madVR :S
    once i uninstalled it from my computer, everything plays smoothly...
    Weird... anyone else have troubles with madVR on their XPS 15?
     
    nehcrow, Aug 4, 2011
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