5793 poor Blu-ray playback

Does anyone else have problems with their Blu-ray playback? I was watching the Band of Brothers Blu-ray and it would run beautifully for 20-30 mins then it would get these "choppy spells" for lack of a better term. It would get choppy for a few secs, then stop, then do it again. Only thing that would stop it was restarting the laptop.

I made sure to turn off ALL programs running in the background and I even tried using different drivers, but neither of these worked.

Oh and I'm using the free Blu-ray software that came with the laptop, CyberDVD or something, not sure since I'm at work and my laptop is at home. I even tried reinstalling the software but same problem. I had it accelerated with the Intel dashboard program and tried taking it off, but that didn't help.

I did notice that once when I had the task manager open that my CPU spiked to 70%-100% when it happened but all the listed processes were running at 0% except for the CyberDVD which was nowhere near 100%, more like 10%-15%.

Any ideas?

 

Oh and I don't know if this is related at all but I went and downloaded nTune to try and overclock my gpu to see if that helped. Well I downloaded it, installed it, then the first time I tried launching nTune, the whole laptop locked up and I had to manually reboot it. The laptop then started locking up after every rebook and I ended up having to restore it via a restore point while in safe mode.

This happened the day after the Blu-Ray problems.

(I should mention that I have watched one other Blu-ray movie before this, and it worked fine).

 

set Power Options to max performance.

set Powermizer in Nvidia Control Panel to max performance

 

I just purchased the same notebook, Sager 5793, and while setting it up found an update for CyberLink PowerDVD ! I would try that next.

Oh and btw, just sent my notebook back to Sager, after having it for 8 days..............Bad GPU !

Not a happy camper !

 

Yeah I updated Cyberlink as well already. I'm hoping that setting the Powermizer to max performance works. I'll know this weekend when me and the old lady sit down to the next episode of band of brothers.

 

That would be an Nvidia problem, not sagers.

 

Err...........will still put some of the blame on Sager !

From their homepage :

"Every component of a Sager PC is checked, then rechecked, to ensure system integrity. Then each computer is tested for a full 96 hours, in two separate procedures, to certify system excellence. Sager's state-of-the-art testing facility ensures that your portable PC will perform to Sager standards."

Had my notebook for eight days before gpu expired !

Will put it through the ringer, when I get it back !

 

I tried again over the weekend and the playback was perfect. Not as nice quality wise as it was before but performance was perfect. Thanks!

 

i get a choppiness when i play back my dvr's, but it doesn't happen on my regular dvd player or desktop dvd (non blu ray) burner.