Video files keeps skipping during playback

[KoMoDo]

hey guys,

havent posted on the mech forums for a long time :-P

anyways, i come to you with a problem.
every video file i have, keeps skipping during playback for some reason, i think it started when i got my new graphics card (XFX Geforce fx 5900xt) and upgraded to the newest drivers.. not sure.
anyways, everything is running great, games, windows environment, etc...
its just that when i play clips / movies or whatever, it skips all of a sudden into a few seconds after what i just saw, and i tried Windows media player, Windows media player classic, and Divx player, they all do the same problems, if i notice the skipping (which isnt always) i usually go back with that bar thing a few secods backwards to watch what i've missed, and it doesnt happen again at the same place, but at some other point during the video. this happens every few minutes i think.

can you guys please help me ?

Thanks,

KoMoDo

[KoMoDo]

*bump* :-P

please guys, its really frustrating :-P

Thanks,

KoMoDo

[Force Flow]

What type of video format?

Does it do the same thing with DVDs?

Do you have a lot of programs running in the background while the video is playing?

Have you scanned for spyware?

[KoMoDo]

hey FF, havent seen ya in a while :-P

anyways, its an AVI format (either DIVX or XVID.. both i guess)
im not sure about other formats actually... if you can get me a different format than avi or whatever codec that's longer than like 5 minutes ill check and see how it went.
come to think of it, i do open several sharing progs once i watch movies.. i will try to close all i can.. although i did the same months ago and without any issues...
yes, i scan every once in a while, nothing is ever found, since i have AVG anti virus + spyware blaster and spybot search and destroy and also adaware :-P

Thanks, im off to a field trip in 7 hours from now... so i wont get much sleep errr.. and ill be back on thursday night, not sure if i'll even open the computer then cause of tiredness, if i wont, ill check on friday, if i will be alright, then thursday, just reply whenever u guys want :-P Thanks.

KoMoDo

[Force Flow]

Yeah, I've been offline for about a week.

If you're having a lot of disk writes, that will *definately* affect playback performance, as the video file is stored on the HDD.

[raf]

Hey, just saw this post....If you haven't already solved the problem, try defragging your hard drive, I was having the same problem and it cured it.

Randy

[KoMoDo]

will do that raf, thanks

and no, its not doing any major tasks FF, ill try defragging.

Thanks,

KoMoDo