Hey guys. I recently purchased a new computer and everything was fine at first. But lately the video playback and games aspect has been very choppy and performs like it's struggling to run. The sound is also choppy. I have an updated antivirus and scanned, no threats or anything else detected. But i know that my system can handle the performance side of things, so it's not that. I updated all the drivers since, still no improvement. Maybe it's a driver conflict or something but i can't pinpoint it and wondered if anyone else knows of anything like this happening.

These are the system specs, i hope this helps.

Operating System System Model Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600) Enclosure Type: Desktop Processor a Main Circuit Board b 2.60 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core
256 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: NF-MCP61
Bus Clock: 201 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 05/28/2007 Drives Memory Modules c,d 637.53 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
200.89 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

DVDRW IDE H16X [CD-ROM drive]
MW2725Y VIS430C SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

Seagate FreeAgentDesktop USB Device [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 1
ST3200820A [Hard drive] (200.05 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 9QE3N8MJ, rev 3.AAD, SMART Status: Healthy 1984 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A1' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A2' is Empty
Slot 'A3' is Empty Local Drive Volumes


c: (NTFS on drive 1) 500.11 GB 123.38 GB free i: (NTFS on drive 0) 137.43 GB 77.51 GB free Network Drives

Thanks in advance for any responses.

when you are trying to watch a video, open task manager, and see what teh CPU usage is please.

Ok, thank you for the reply. The CPU usage is still minimal when running mediaplayer classic. ''CPU 00 - 01'' ''Mem usage - 20,004k'' Thank you again.

Also, the readout for the bottom of the task manager is CPU usage 07 - 18% - Processes 41 - Commit charge 425m/ 4375m

that sounds about right.... ok,sounds like it might be a bug problem. Please follow the prework in my signature, and post it in a Thread under "hijackthis logs"

I am doing that, thank you for th help.