Issue with video card

[z_killemall]

Well, the thing is simple: I got a mobo with a PIV 1.7 for free, so I took the rest of the stuff from my old PIII, including my GeForce 2 MX 400 PCI video card.
The big deal is that the card isn't working well anymore. Some games look great for the graphics it can handle (i give GTA San Andreas and NFS: Most Wanted as examples that everyone knows), but video playback is awful (like 1-2 fps on most of the games and about 10 fps on media players:banghead:). BTW, I downloaded the latest drivers from nVidia and it's the same thing.
I'd like to know if the trouble can be from the graphics card, the mobo or XP, I'm interested because I'm updating my computer soon and I was going to sell the video card (I have some people interested on it and I can sell it for more than 50 bucks :icon_bigg), so i need to know if it works ok (I'd like to have it working until I get the new one)
Thanks a lot in advance.

[opethfan]

It's probably a software problem. Try formatting (It'll do a world of good anyways) and try everything again.

[z_killemall]

I formatted 4 times in the last month because of different issues, always with the same results :shrug:

[Mark30001]

How much RAM is on your PC? Sounds like the card may be dying.

I'd really like to know where you can sell a Geforce 2 MX 400 PCI card for more than $50, because I wouldn't mind getting rid of my old Geforce 4 MX 420 AGP card.

[z_killemall]

ATM I have 320 MB of PC133 DIMM RAM (I didn't want to buy new stuff for this PC, I'll buy a new one soon)
BTW, I'm selling it at this price only because it's a PCI model (here in Uruguay the FX5200 is at the same price). There are very few PCI 64 MB cards and lots of refurbished PCs (old PIII and PIV Compaq, Dell and HP PCs sold for low prices but without PCI-E or AGP ports) which need that kind of cards. Anyway, buying cheaper stuff from other countries here ends being more expensive that buying it right here (damn taxes), so you can imagine I'm really fucked up 'cause I need to pay really high prices for everything...

[madhatter256]

What are the video formats and at what resolution are they?

DVD playback on some more recent DVD software such as: PowerDVD or InterVideo eat up tons of CPU resources and RAM. They load up more protection schemes.

Also, if you are trying to play high resolution divx, xvid, .h264 (is that the proper way of saying it?), etc. Those require speedier RAM, and a better CPU, especially if they are high resolution from at least 480p and up. The PC i use at work has a 2.0ghz P4 with a 9200Radeon and 512mb PC2100RAM, and it was unable to play such formats, especially .h264, very well. The playback was choppy and out of sync.

I'd suggest you start saving your money for a new PC.

[z_killemall]

It can be the trouble, I'm editing a movie (I've mentioned it somewhere in the boards) and the video output I use is DivX in a 1600kbps approx. bitrate at 720x480, 29.90 FPS. Now that I think about it, the fact that it won't play the videos well makes a lot of sense to me...
Anyway, they're not made to be viewed on a regular PC, as soon as I finish editing every scene, I'll compile them in DVD format, so they'll can be played on most computers / DVD players.

BTW, I've tried NFSU2 on this computer yesterday (it worked great in my old PIII) and I'm having problems with the videos which I didn't have on my previous PC (they look really awful, like 1 or 2 FPS). I have no idea of what can it be :banghead: