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  1. 12th Aug 2002 06:59 #1
    moo2u2
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    Hi, i have a pretty old laptop PII with 96MB Ram, running NT. It plays vcds, dvds, and movies on disk in general slowly and jerkily. Is there anything i can tweak to have faster playback? Thanks
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  2. 12th Aug 2002 08:57 #2
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    Make sure DMA is ticked on the Drive properties in system.
    Also if yer go to mulitmedia I think it is. Then performance tab. Go to drives and alter the read ahead cache. Try turning it down to 0 or experiment with it
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    Well i cant find either of them, but thanks anyway. Remember i am running NT, so maybe these aren't on there, or maybe im looking in the wrong place.
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  4. 14th Aug 2002 07:26 #4
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    I said it slighty wronng
    try his 1 - Control panel - System - Device Manager - Go to drives - right clcik on it and go to properties - Then settings - Enable DMA.

    If that doesn`t work
    2: Control Panel - System - Performance Tab - File System Tab - CD Rom Tab - Turn CDRom cache down to nothing..
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