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I cannot get a smooth video quality of my 3D screensavers. What is causing my problem ?

I recently installed 3D screensavers software on my computer,and I can't get a smooth video quality. I have tried everything including purchasing a video card, adding more memory to my hard drive. I even replaced my hard drive and the problem still persists. My motherboard has been checked by a technician and he says the problem is not there. Somebody help me in resolving my problem

Public Comments

1. You replaced your hard drive and video card for your screen-saver? You need to prioritize.
2. First of all, screensavers are not video, or at least I've never seen one that is. They are often animated, using Flash technology if newer or Bitmap if older. That said, even those methods of animating a screensaver can be quite smooth considering what they really are. Of course, real movies are also deceptively smooth considering they are actually just projections in rapid sequence of a series of stop motion photos. Anyway, it sounds to me as though your problem may not be hardware- but rather software-related, except for one long shot, namely if your motherboard has video built into it then that could be creating the problem. Barring that, I'd check to see if any one or more of the following could apply in your case: 1. the hard drive is too full, slowing everything down; 2. your computer is just too old (or perhaps intentionally limited in its abilities like a Celeron or Atom) to handle a video-like screensaver; 3. you have too much other stuff running on your computer while the screensaver is on--whether it's defragging and virus scanning in the background or just indexing your files, it may be too much especially if you only have one CPU core, so be sure to not only check Microsoft's Task Manager to see what's been running, but try alternative programs as well such as Anvir Task Manager and then stop or disable as many things as you possibly can if you want to see a smoother image; 4. your screen resolution could be set wrong, causing your computer to have to re-process it all on the fly as it is being displayed, creating backlogs and catchups because it's probably not being buffered like Windows Media Player and its competitors do in order to eliminate such artifacts; 5. it's just possible that you have a memory mismatch problem, so a Mem Test, Tuff Test, and/or the like would probably be in order to see if anything turns up in this area. 6. Your memory could simply be full, forcing Windows to use virtual memory instead which means the hard drive and that is a lot slower than using the actual memory chips. If none of the above helps at all, re-submit the question listing everything that you've done, as you will probably get a completely different person if you do have to ask it over again. Now, a favor if you don't mind, I'd like to hear how it turns out on your end, which is another way of saying, Please post your results back here. I'd appreciate it very much if you would so I can come back here when I can for a status report.