Full Screen Video Poor Since Vista

Hi,

Has anybody experienced very poor performance when running videos (including DVD) in Full Screen mode through WMP (or any other app) since upgrading to Vista?

Other problems include .avi video and audio out of sync. (Audio runs normal speed, video 1/2 speed)

I don't remember having these issues when running XP.

I have a dv2040tx (bought Nov 06)

Vista Home Premium 32-Bit
1GB RAM
Nvidia Go 7200

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

I also have this problem I think that Vista is running so much stuff in the background that it is causing the system to overheat and perform poorly

 

I have had the same problems, but not during playback. The video is really choppy in dvd previews and menus, while the audio has no problems. The movie itself plays fine. If not in fullscreen mode I don't have these problems.

I have vista, t7200, 2 gb ram, geforce go 7200

Using quickplay or windows media center, there are no issues at all. So, there is some issue with vista/windows media player/geforce 7200. Unless somebody with the intel gpu has this problem, my guess is that it has to do with the nvidia card.

 

me too, thats why im back to XP. vista is garbage

 

I had a similar DVD stuttering issue that I resolved by changing the Power option in Control Panel to either "balanced" or "max performance". I don't think DVD's like "max battery".
I also notice that widescreen format DVD's look MUCH better than fullscreen format DVD's, regardless of the DVD playing software used. Sounds like an NVidia driver issue?

 

Ahhhh!! RockyM you star!

It was my power settings all along. I thought if I was plugged in I'd just go to "perfomance". Should have checked that really.

Haven't tried the .avi issue yet...

Thanks, you've made my laptop soooo happy!