Have a laptop with really choppy video.

[Ryan]

Have an old panasonic toughbook CF73 J. Loaded windows 7 on it. It was was too slow. I re-loaded it with xp sp3. It is not the original start up disc. I had to look for the audio drivers online and downloaded the video driver as well. When I play a movie it is very very choppy and unwatchable. I loaded VLC media player. It was choppy before I loaded the video drivers. It there something I am forgetting?

 

[TurboDave]

Trying to do too much with too little.

 

[Ryan]

It was originally an XP computer. Upgraded to win7. Was too slow, so I downgraded it to XP again but not the original factory load, just a full version of xp sp3.

 

[87granny]

Your video card may be out of date and even though you updated the divers is may not have enough virtual memory to run what your asking it to i ran into the same issues with my old desk top i play truck sims and my old setup was slow and choppy a good video card starts at $300 and up so i baught a whole new setup with 4g memory just in the video card runs super smooth and fast now, you may be able to just replace the video card if your laptop has enough power to run one of the higher end cards

 

[Ryan]

I tried to play a DVD and it displays "No codec" I downloaded an xpcodec. If I play a video file, it is choppy. The DvD plays well on VLC but no video on win media player. Strange.

 

[SuperSix]

Try K-lite codec pack - the basic package is fine. Also - make sure you have the latest video drivers - download them from the chipset manufacturer's website, don't use the default Windows ones or the ones that came with the restore/driver discs.
Download K-Lite Codec Pack

Looks like that uses the Intel 915GM chipset - drivers here:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Sea...tel®+915GM/GMS,+910GML+Express+Chipset+Family