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howlmoon#

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 🧟 .

THANK YOUUUUUUU!!!!

~Julian

...and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Jaak#
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.
I allready like U...
anubis2003#
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#
I'd say he's most likely a) not using overlay mode b) using a much higher fullscreen res.
Fish-face#
or...

to butt in, you could also buy an athlon XP2600 - faster and cheaper than 3.06 HT! 😁 *multiple grins* 😁
Magic.X#
Update: An Athlon XP 3000+ if at all! 😁
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 😛 )
Zevensoft#
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#
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#
Or you can spend 200 $ for a hydrogen and water cooling system that keeps your amd2400+ at 20 degrees celsius.
Magic.X#
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#
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 😛
dirkdeftly#
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 😛 *drool*
anubis2003#
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*
Jaheckelsafar#
Won't happen on the Xeon processors. They aren't backwards compatible. Now the Optetron... (sp?)
Magic.X#
Originally posted by Zevensoft
Get the computer to near-absolute zero and watch the THz 😁
Won't be possible because *puts on teacher suit* electrons move at light speed if you shrink the length of a cycle so damn low, the electrons wont be able to pass through the CPU within one cycle.

See, we're physically limited. 😢
Magic.X#
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#
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"?