Upgraded my sytem - please tell me why i drop frames like ma

[mole]

Hello there - can someone please help?

My former setup was this:

Athlon T-bird 900 with 133FSB
on an Abit K7 (not raid)
I have two HD's,
8GB Maxtor 5400rpm
20GB Western Digital 5400rpm
512MB PC133 ram
ATI RAGE FURY PRO 16MB (for capture and all)
Soundblaster16 ISA

I was able to capture at 740x480 with the PICVIDEO Mjpeg codec no problem. I don't recall losing a frame at all.

Now I've upgraded the MB, Processor,soundcard and Vidcard to the following:

Athlon T-bird 1Gig with 266 FSB
on an ASUS A7V133
and an ATI Radeon DDR 64MB
Ensoniq PCI
all other stuff is the same - same HD's etc

I was told a while back that the ISA card was a bit of a bottleneck - but anyhow - now I have all this new stuff - and I figured it would whoop ass compared to what I had, but to my dismay, Virtual Dub DROPS FRAMES LIKE MAD! At 740x480, the CPU usage is only at around 28-30%, where it used to be around 40-50% - but i'm dropping frames like crazy. I have DMA enabled (mode2 on one drive, mode 4 on the other) - i have just defragged everything.
Is there something i could be missing?
Maybe a BIOS setting?
Please help. OH By the way - when i say dropping frames like MAD - how is 209frames in 9 seconds?
Thanks - MOLE

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[jeex]

its probably that ati card ye got in yer piece

[mole]

I agree that ATI may have some issues - but i refuse to believe that's the problem - my old ATI was off to a shaky start - it needed some tweaking - but it worked out after all.
Besides - why would an older card work better than a newer one with twice the memory?

[mole]

woops - posted twice

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[gadget]

my gosh jeex, how could you even post that last note on the web? aren't you ashamed of yourself?

[twolf]

Hey mole what capture prog you use..I sure would like to figure how to get that high resolution without dropping frames...t

[mole]

I usually use Virtual Dub to capture
like i said - with my old RAGE FURY PRO it captured fine...

[mole]

Just making another post so this will show up on the main page - anybody have any ideas? Sefy? Baldrick? Anyone?

[mole]

COOL! I got it! I just updated the driver to the latest XP driver, instead of the win2k driver!
The driver that comes with the XP CD didn't work, and i didn't see the other "official" driver before - yes! Now i can even capture PICVideo at 20 quality - where before i could only capture at 19
now i don't lose a frame at all... sweet.

[gf]

I had a problem with my system and I was trying to overclock my system, anyway I left my pci delay to DISABLE and it should of been ENABLED. Hope something like this helps.

[XanaXManX]

I have the same set up as you and I am haveing a simalar problem where did you get the Driver and are you using Windows XP

[mole]

yep - i'm using XP - i just got the driver at http://www.atitech.com in the downloads section - it cleared everything up

[Hollywood004738]

depending on your MOBO bios you will need to "Load the Optimized Defaults". Mine didn't have the optimized ones loaded-dropped many frames until that. Now 0 dropped. And I only have an Athlon 650mhz