SOLVED HP 2133 Slow Video Performance

[mojoman]

Hello Everyone

So, as you see in the title, i have a very bad video performance. I have read from people that are able to watch the 720p-Trailer from Transformers on the 2133, but i am not. I have installed the Goomplayer (which most people recommend) but i still have those video lags. I also have lags when watching youtube vids. I know its a different pair of shoes, one is flash and the other one is a file, but both lag.

It's the 1.6GHz model, was shipped with linux and i upgraded to XP Sp3 by an nlited XP Professional CD directly. I have the latest drivers (November 15th) from Via installed, Video and Chipsetdrivers and everything, but i really have no idea, why this one is not working!

Video driver says (translated from german)

Bios Version: 91.00.02.08

S3-Driver
Show Driver: s3gigp.dll 6.14.10.0146-20.04.01o (DX 9)
Miniport-Driver: s3gigpm.sys 6.14.10.0146-20-04-01o
OpenGL ICD: s3gigpgl.dll 20.04.01o

DirectX 9.0c
DirectX Media: 6.05.2600.5512
So if anyone has an idea, what i could do next, i would really appreciate that.

Kind regards from Switzerland

moe

[mojoman]

Hello Everyone

So, as you see in the title, i have a very bad video performance. I have read from people that are able to watch the 720p-Trailer from Transformers on the 2133, but i am not. I have installed the Goomplayer (which most people recommend) but i still have those video lags. I also have lags when watching youtube vids. I know its a different pair of shoes, one is flash and the other one is a file, but both lag.

It's the 1.6GHz model, was shipped with linux and i upgraded to XP Sp3 by an nlited XP Professional CD directly. I have the latest drivers (November 15th) from Via installed, Video and Chipsetdrivers and everything, but i really have no idea, why this one is not working!

Video driver says (translated from german)

Bios Version: 91.00.02.08

S3-Driver
Show Driver: s3gigp.dll 6.14.10.0146-20.04.01o (DX 9)
Miniport-Driver: s3gigpm.sys 6.14.10.0146-20-04-01o
OpenGL ICD: s3gigpgl.dll 20.04.01o

DirectX 9.0c
DirectX Media: 6.05.2600.5512
So if anyone has an idea, what i could do next, i would really appreciate that.

Kind regards from Switzerland

moe

[gregw]

I've had very good performance from KMPlayer. Maybe you could install that and see if it works. I have not tried playing 720P video on my 2133 yet, but will try to download the Transformer 720P trailer here to see if it works for me.

[gregw]

I've had very good performance from KMPlayer. Maybe you could install that and see if it works. I have not tried playing 720P video on my 2133 yet, but will try to download the Transformer 720P trailer here to see if it works for me.

[mojoman]

Hy Greg

Thx for your recommendation. I have just found out, that these were the wrong drivers... Now i have:

Bios Version: 91.00.02.08

S3-Driver
Show Driver: s3gigp.dll 6.14.10.0164
Miniport-Driver: s3gigpm.sys 6.14.10.0164
OpenGL ICD: s3gigpgl.dll 20.07.01k

DirectX 9.0c
DirectX Media: 6.05.2600.5512

This is the Driver from November 14th. But why does my Device-Manager still say, that the Driver is dated October 2008???

Youtube-Videos are now playing close to 25fps, some short lags still, but viewable. Not in Fullscreen.

[mojoman]

Hy Greg

Thx for your recommendation. I have just found out, that these were the wrong drivers... Now i have:

Bios Version: 91.00.02.08

S3-Driver
Show Driver: s3gigp.dll 6.14.10.0164
Miniport-Driver: s3gigpm.sys 6.14.10.0164
OpenGL ICD: s3gigpgl.dll 20.07.01k

DirectX 9.0c
DirectX Media: 6.05.2600.5512

This is the Driver from November 14th. But why does my Device-Manager still say, that the Driver is dated October 2008???

Youtube-Videos are now playing close to 25fps, some short lags still, but viewable. Not in Fullscreen.

[luvit]

mojoman, do you have multiple tabs opened? i found lag with firefox, even more terrible with multiple tabs.
i found great performance on videos using google chrome... even with multiple tabs opened.

[luvit]

mojoman, do you have multiple tabs opened? i found lag with firefox, even more terrible with multiple tabs.
i found great performance on videos using google chrome... even with multiple tabs opened.

[mojoman]

Thanks for the tip. It really is not that bad when only one tab is open. I think it is even close to normal, say "viewable".

I just runned Geekbench and had 551 points. This is 6 points less than another bench i found but this could be because of firewall/antivir/msn/whatever.

I am now able to watch the transformers 720p trailer with media player classic and the k-lite-codec-pack with a very small lag. meaning that this should now be ok. I am not going to watch 720p movies anyway but was just wondering about that.

All i need to know right now is: Do others also have around 551 points in geekbench and are all my drivers installed correctly. I also downloaded the HyperionPro-Drivers and used them for instance for the "CPU-AGP-Bridge". They seemed to not install properly...

Thanks for every answer. We have 7 2133's here and all of them seem to have the same problem. I read about deinstalling sp3, applying a patch and installing sp3 again. But don't really think that it has to do something with this...

[mojoman]

Thanks for the tip. It really is not that bad when only one tab is open. I think it is even close to normal, say "viewable".

I just runned Geekbench and had 551 points. This is 6 points less than another bench i found but this could be because of firewall/antivir/msn/whatever.

I am now able to watch the transformers 720p trailer with media player classic and the k-lite-codec-pack with a very small lag. meaning that this should now be ok. I am not going to watch 720p movies anyway but was just wondering about that.

All i need to know right now is: Do others also have around 551 points in geekbench and are all my drivers installed correctly. I also downloaded the HyperionPro-Drivers and used them for instance for the "CPU-AGP-Bridge". They seemed to not install properly...

Thanks for every answer. We have 7 2133's here and all of them seem to have the same problem. I read about deinstalling sp3, applying a patch and installing sp3 again. But don't really think that it has to do something with this...