Thread: My music is choppy

Well I'd suggest running a CPU monitoring tool to see if you are running out of CPU power. I've seen some P133 laptops that didn't have enough CPU power to play mp3s and move them mouse believe it or not!

Try going under system properties, the performance tab, the graphics system button
and there adjust the Hardware acceleration. Keep turning it down until you get skipless music. Win95/98 basic drivers for many graphics cards didn't handle the system resource tasking very well (PCI cards especially) and will take almost all of your system performance to JUST MOVE a some pixels around your screen. At the lowest setting you should get skipless music from a P5-75 even if I'm not mistaken (don't quote me on that) and I can vouch for an AMD K5-133 (about an Intel 486DX4-100 equivalent) playing under win95/98 fine with winamp after playing around with the settings for system properties and with Winamp's default settings for buffer & task priorities [it'll skip once in a while when win95/98 decides to choke a bit] under DOS though it plays just fine with absolutely NO skipping =) best of all DOS doesn't care if you just kill the power suddenly heh heh.

hope this fixes your problem.

-Frank Grayson

I tried your suggestions but they didn't work. So I found a DOS player (MpxPlay) and ran it from within Win95. It worked, no skipping. Although I'd prefer not to boot to win, MpxPlay doesn't recognize my soundcard without it. Any suggestions? Thanks.

What kind of soundcard do you have? Have you tried to get dos drivers for it from www.driverzone.com or www.windrivers.com ?

Oh yeah. Haven't thought about that. I just downloaded the driver and I'll install it later. I'll reply with the rusults in a few days. Thanks Meatballman.