Shuddering, stuttering, skipping - any media i play on the puter

[Grimmlok]

very annoying.

If I'm watching a video file on any media player.. or watching a youtube video.. or even playing a video file off a dvd in the drive.. or listening to something on itunes..

every 45 seconds to a minute there's a 1 to 2 second shudder, or stutter while it's playing. Audio, video, either or both together, they both do the same thing.

I've watched the CPU usage spike a bit each time, but for the life of me i can't figure out what's going on.

I have enough resources.. 4 gigs of ram, 3 gig core2 duo processor.. i turned off everything else, but it still happens. What could the puter be doing that it needs that much processing power every 45 seconds?

any comp nerds have any ideas?

[burnt_toast]

do you have a spyware prog or adware? could there me something devious hiding on your computer making it spike occasionally?

[Grimmlok]

ran a spyware scan, didn't find anything.. my online content scanner didn't either.. turned that off just in case it was running a scan every so often.. still happened. Virus scanner too, turned that off to see.. still happened.

I went back through my list of installed stuff, but i don't have anything that would run in the background. My processes aren't crazy either.

*scratches head*

[burnt_toast]

can you watch to see which process is causing the spike? might be hard to spot though...

[Grimmlok]

yeah, i tried that.. goes too fast

i'll give it another go later on. Still, it didn't do this when i bought it...

[FierceKiten]

Could be your video card, you might need to update the driver. Make sure you have the latest direct x installed or maybe you need to check internally. Somtimes the culprit could be dust.

[Grimmlok]

hRM..video card drivers..it's an onboard, and i installed the ones that came with it. Time to check the company website.

i'll take a look into that. direct X too.

[Grimmlok]

update: i checked the drivers for my videocard.. EHHH, from 2007.... update thank you.

Things seem to be better now.

[FierceKiten]

your welcome.

[B.C.]

This was happening to my pc. Drove me nuts, I couldn't watch any videos. My daughter finally re-installed the drivers(?). I thought about asking about this a few weeks ago. Did you get it fixed?

[Grimmlok]

i would check to see if there are newer drivers for whatever you have. They have to continually update them to adapt to new technologies.

[Lobelia]

Your Celine Dion is worn completely out.

Try playing something else for a change.

[B.C.]

Celion Dion

It's working fine now as far as watching youtube etc...but not sure about the cd drives. My daughter was going to check them out. I couldn't get a cd to play...not sure if it's o.e. or the drives. I have a new friend to help me.

[A*O]

Ref malware - I run a (free) thing called Malwarebytes Anti-Malware that's pretty good. My 'puter geek friend recommended it and if you run it once a week or so it seems to pick up most nasties.

Alternatively Grimm, you could wave your wang at the monitor and scare it into submission.

[Grimmlok]

I use spybot for malware.. picks up trojans, tracking cookies, stupid adbots...