howlmoon

11th February 2003 19:49 UTC

a new newbie with what I'm sure is an old question
Okay guys, please forgive me in advance for asking what I'm sure has been asked and answered too many times:

I just got Winamp 3 and a video cable to output the visualizations to my TV. Only problem is that when I go fullscreen (TV on or just the computer's monitor), the patterns slow down to a crawl and don't keep any kind of sync with the music.

I'm not very good with computers, so if someone has the time to help me understand how to speed up the full-screen patterns, I'd really appreciate it. And please note, use small words :igor: .

THANK YOUUUUUUU!!!!

~Julian

...and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Jaak

11th February 2003 20:45 UTC

Set pixel doubling (it will make avs uglier but faster) then buy 2400000000 GHz processor and then U can run AVS smoothly everywhere...

...and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

anubis2003

11th February 2003 20:50 UTC

Search the Forums. This has been answered before(several times). You will find all possibilities for speeding up AVS, but the only one which will make a notable difference is to buy a computer with a better processor(i.e. PentiumIV 3.06GHz).

Zevensoft

11th February 2003 21:56 UTC

I'd say he's most likely a) not using overlay mode b) using a much higher fullscreen res.

anubis2003

11th February 2003 22:11 UTC

I'd say B. A doesn't make nearly as much of a difference.

Fish-face

17th February 2003 12:08 UTC

or...
to butt in, you could also buy an athlon XP2600 - faster and cheaper than 3.06 HT! :D *multiple grins* :D

Magic.X

17th February 2003 14:57 UTC

Update: An Athlon XP 3000+ if at all! :D
But i wonder how much boost an Athlon 64 will give to AVS!
(maybe Nullsoft can't publish AVS 2.6 cause they're busy recoding it in 64 Bit :p )

Zevensoft

17th February 2003 21:47 UTC

1) AVS will never see 64-bit EVER.
2) HT is not to be underestimated.
3) With AMD you get what you pay for, hope you have your fan and warranty ready.

dirkdeftly

17th February 2003 22:12 UTC

Besides the fact that Pentium is slower in general, I've been told AMD is a lot better for AVS.
That and - hey! - ever heard of a cooling system? Fuck overclocking, just freeze yer damn comp. I heard somebody stuck his 586 in a freezer full of alcohol and played Quake fullscreen at full speed.

Phaze1987

18th February 2003 11:44 UTC

Or you can spend 200 $ for a hydrogen and water cooling system that keeps your amd2400+ at 20 degrees celsius.

Magic.X

18th February 2003 12:22 UTC

Or even better, a fluid Nitrogen Cooling System - It'll freeze your AMD's Ass off! But you can't pay that kind of stuff - unfortunately :(

Phaze1987

18th February 2003 15:05 UTC

Or you can buy a damn fast CPU to run AVS at 30+ fps and a medium size cooler to keep it at 50-55...Also keep the case open :p

dirkdeftly

18th February 2003 20:17 UTC

Dude...this is all it is: a freezer, and about five cases of high-proof (I believe that's the term used for %age of alcohol) vodka. Find some way to purify the vodka if you really want to. Now run some cables through your freezer door - insulate them properly! - and stick your comupter in there, with the bottles of alcohol sitting all around it. If you've got one of those big-ass freezers it's even better because you're probably not using all of it :)

Anyway, that'll take your computer down so damn low, if you had a decent proccessor you could run Water Cube at 640x480 with a 320x240 DM at full speed :p *drool*

anubis2003

18th February 2003 21:08 UTC

How about doing this with on a computer with dual Intel Xeon 2.8Ghz processors.

*me drools at thought of any of UnConeD's presets on 800x600 with this*

Zevensoft

18th February 2003 21:22 UTC

Get the computer to near-absolute zero and watch the THz :D

Jaheckelsafar

19th February 2003 02:40 UTC

Won't happen on the Xeon processors. They aren't backwards compatible. Now the Optetron... (sp?)

Magic.X

19th February 2003 07:28 UTC

Originally posted by Zevensoft
Get the computer to near-absolute zero and watch the THz :D

anubis2003

19th February 2003 07:45 UTC

Smaller CPU's then. What is the maximum frequency we can use then?

Magic.X

19th February 2003 08:43 UTC

Ummm... lets see:
At 5 Ghz Light moves 5,994 cm far per cycle.
At 1 Thz it would be only 0,2997 millimeters.

But its not really exact as the speed of electricity is a bit below lightspeed, depending on the matereal it has to go though.

dirkdeftly

20th February 2003 05:13 UTC

Bad pun time!

If you use the IUPAC naming system for elements, "pentium" would be the fifth element - boron. I don't think I need to say more about that one.
Now the new "Xeon" processors are quite close to "xenon" - a noble gas (that won't combine with anything). Hey kids! Can you say "software conflict"?

Magic.X

20th February 2003 07:02 UTC

"SOFTWARE CONFLICT"

Yeah, i can!!! :up: