Windows Aero + Itunes = Problems for my Asus?

I've had an Ipod for a while, had itunes on 2 laptops with Vista 32 with no problems. Got a new laptop, Asus n80vn-X5 with Vista 64, and when using Itunes, music stutters and video does also(playing form C drive). I've google searched this and came up with nothing solid. Last night I started Itunes in compatability mode(vista basic) and it worked perfectly. I could see if there was an issue with Windows Aero and the nvidia driver it would cause video stuttering, but the audio too? Watched the sys resources and still had plenty of ram left and cpu wasn't even close to being maxed out.
Changing from Windows Aero to Vista Basic is just changing display properties right? All of the special vista aero effects?

Laptop has 2.4ghz processor, 4gb ram, 9650gt vid card, 320bg 7200rpm drive.
All drivers updated. Even tried Dox's nvidia drivers. The Toshiba that ran it perfect was a budget laptop, integrated graphics, slower hdd, Vista 32 .

 

It sounds like iTunes has a problem.

 

I notice issues with iTunes and Vista 64 on my machine too. Whenever I open iTunes the screen kinda flickers as I open and close windows. Definitely screws up something graphically, some sound issues too here and there. Im back to WMP lol.

 

ditch iTunes. it sucks.
but wait..Apple forces you to use iTunes if you have iPod..ah well.
just use it for sync.


go for Media Monkey or jetAudio for everything else. and install CCCP.

 

Thats why, and when, I use it . But I sync very rarely, once so far actually (since I got this computer/2months), so its fine.

It REALLY freaks my computer out, the one thing I love is the new visualizer in iTunes 8+..WMP has idiot visualizations.

 

try winAMP then. AVS > ALL.

 

Went back to original factory installed nvidia driver from the driver cd, problem fixed. But also did a bunch of other things, but thing the original driver did the trick. Must be something in certain nvidia driver versions that dont get along with itunes/aero.

 

Its because your CPU or GPU isnt throttling to the correct speed properly causing it to stutter.

 

Even after changing back to the factory installed nvidia driver, it seems that over time, aero bogs down, making windows animations lag. Now that I know the problem is with aero, I researched this and found if you go to mouse properties and change the pointer from aero to none, it clears up that issue also. My Sager with the 8800mGTX's doesn't do this, but it's also using 32 bit Vista.

 

Put rockbox on your iPod, toss iTunes, problem solved =]

 

Nice, clean solution: http://www.getsongbird.com/.