Video Choppy In Media Player

[DieselPUmp]

I've been watching movies from my harddriver in windows media player and every little while the video gets choppy and the frames almost stop, then resumes normal playback.

Any ideas as to why this is happening?

I'm running a 7900gt with 84.21 forceware drivers.

Thanks

 

[Jersey13]

I've got the same problem: AMD X2 3800 processor, XFX 7900GT video card, Asus A8N-SLI Premium motherboard (which I regret buying instead of waiting a little longer for the A8N32-Deluxe, btw). Whenever I watch video, it seems like every 10-15 seconds the video just starts getting choppy, clears up, then gets choppy again, etc. It's really annoying. This didn't happen when I had my 7800GT in this machine, so I'm hoping it's just a driver issue that'll be cleared up soon once they release some updated drivers. Sometimes setting the affinity to one core or another helps with certain video glitches I've seen, but that's usually just in games and not with WMP. Give it a try, can't hurt.