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Video playback is jerky
Motherboard - Asus P5N-D
CPU - QuadCore Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 2400 MHz (9 x 267)
Memory - 8 Gb (3.326 Gb in XP)
Video - NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT (256)
I am currently triple booting XP Pro 32 bit, Vista Home Premium 64 bit and Windows 7 RC1 (Build 7100) 64bit.
Experience Index is 5.2 in Vista, 5.3 in Windows 7.
I have an ATI TV Wonder HD600 PCIe tuner card. I can record TV in all three operating systems. I have Cyberlink PowerCinema 6 and the latest version of SageTV. PowerCinema will not work in Windows 7. Windows Media Player *does* work but records in some god-awful format which can only be viewed in Windows 7. SageTV works in all three OS's. Since Sage works in all three and records in mpeg2 format, I'll use it for my example. Using Media Player Classic or GOM for playback, any of the recordings made in any of the operating systems will play back flawlessly in Windows XP.
In Vista or Windows 7 the video playback is jerky although the sound doesn't seem to be affected.
Also just *watching* TV in Vista or Windows 7 is jerky. By Jerky I mean the screen will freeze up momentarily and then jump ahead to where it should be, although the sound continues normally.
So what do I need to be looking at? My Vista OS was originally 32 bit, but I still had the jerkiness problem. I actually thought upgrading it to 64 bit might cure it, but it didn't.
Interestingly the playback is flawless in Windows XP which only accesses about 3.5 Gb of my 8 Gb total.
Are the newer OS's just that much more bloatware?