Re: Hardware Acceleration

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stack wrote:
I have problems with wmm freezing, especially when I have
a long project (1/2 hour). I read at PapaJohn's about
changing the Hardware Acceleration to 3. I did that and I
found it cut the loading time in half, however, I noticed
all the pictures were now pixelated. It I keep it at the
3 setting will that affect my final project that I want
to burn on a DVD? I think not, but I want to be sure. It
is driving me crazy when it freezes after a couple of
edits and then I have to wait 15 minutes for it to load
again at the #6 setting. Thanks for any help.
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If reducing your Graphics Hardware Acceleration improved the issue...you need to update your Video Driver.

Might be worth a try to search the support website of your Graphics Adapter's Mfg.
for updated drivers.

Once you have the updated driver installed...
return your acceleration to full.

Other improvements may be realized if
you do some routine maintenance:

Running Disk Cleanup, Error Checking and Defrag on a regular schedule is a good idea.

(310312) Description of the Disk Cleanup Tool in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310312

(315265) How to Perform Disk Error Checking in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315265
(check the two boxes..."Automatically fix file system errors" and "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors") the utility will run
the next time you restart your computer.
(run error checking repeatedly until it finds no errors)

(314848) How to Defragment Your Disk Drive Volumes in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314848

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