tawd Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 Whenever I try to play video (VLC,WMP11, or Winamp) while running utorrent the files skip and halt frequently. Trial and error tells me that it somehow has to be related to utorrent. This doesn't make any sense to me because of utorrent's small footprint. I am running XpSP2 with 256MB pci-e vid/amd 3500/1g memory. This is more than enough. I really can't imagine utorrent causing this problem, but it really seems like the only solution. Utorrent runs, problem exists- turn off utorrent, problem disappears. Has anyone else had this weird experience?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 Are your hard drives running at full speed and in DMA mode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tawd Posted November 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 Thanks for your response. It says DMA if available, and DMA mode 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 Get Process Explorer from sysinternals.com, File > SaveCopy and paste the process list in the .txt file that you save from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tawd Posted November 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 Process PID CPU Description Company NameSystem Idle Process 0 95.38 Interrupts n/a Hardware Interrupts DPCs n/a Deferred Procedure Calls System 4 smss.exe 508 Windows NT Session Manager Microsoft Corporation csrss.exe 564 Client Server Runtime Process Microsoft Corporation winlogon.exe 588 Windows NT Logon Application Microsoft Corporation services.exe 656 1.54 Services and Controller app Microsoft Corporation svchost.exe 816 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation svchost.exe 864 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation svchost.exe 940 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation svchost.exe 1000 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation svchost.exe 1092 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation spoolsv.exe 1352 Spooler SubSystem App Microsoft Corporation aswUpdSv.exe 1692 ashServ.exe 1764 avast! antivirus service nvsvc32.exe 1832 NVIDIA Driver Helper Service, Version 81.85 NVIDIA Corporation ashMaiSv.exe 732 avast! e-Mail Scanner Service ALWIL Software ashWebSv.exe 1300 avast! Web Scanner ALWIL Software alg.exe 1564 Application Layer Gateway Service Microsoft Corporation svchost.exe 1384 Generic Host Process for Win32 Services Microsoft Corporation StarWindService.exe 2624 StarWind iSCSI Target (Alcohol Edition) Rocket Division Software lsass.exe 668 LSA Shell (Export Version) Microsoft Corporationexplorer.exe 1272 1.54 Windows Explorer Microsoft Corporation rundll32.exe 1608 Run a DLL as an App Microsoft Corporation ashDisp.exe 1616 avast! service GUI component StatBar.exe 1640 StatBar Globe Software firefox.exe 2884 Firefox Mozilla Corporation utorrent.exe 2244 1.54 vlc.exe 1580 VLC media player VideoLAN Team procexp.exe 3616 Sysinternals Process Explorer SysinternalsI have a 15gb (OS files) C:, 300gb IDE d:, 300gb sata E: (where the video is), a 300gb sata F:, a 1g USB card G:, and DVD burner H: and a VD I:. This is a fairly fresh install (I reformatted and installed prior to this post, but the problem still exists) and I've tried Bitcomet. Problem does not occur with Bitcomet, but I like Utorrent more, and, well, I hate not knowing why this happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 Have you tried exiting statbar to see if it helps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tawd Posted November 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 I tried exiting statbar and while I was originally typing "thanks, that worked!" the same halting returned and as consistently. It goes so far that typing/backspacing in FF is halted. I know FF has leaks, but I restart it enough to keep it @ or ~ 100mb max. According to statbar (when I was running it, I was at a constant 3-400mb mem usage and 0-10% CPU usage (browsing, Word, etc...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 =TMy next guess is that it has something to do with Avast, or maybe something you configured in Avast... Can you try uninstalling (yes, uninstalling, not exiting) Avast to test that theory? If you're worried about catching a virus in between, just don't visit any website while you're testing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dikkememmen Posted December 5, 2006 Report Share Posted December 5, 2006 Avast and utorrent don't go well together. Had some CPU overload problems. Terminating ONLY the process that gobbled up the cpu resolved the problem. Even just exiting avast, or using its own features to disable some services, did not help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinhead Posted December 5, 2006 Report Share Posted December 5, 2006 man, i'm so glad that i found this thread! Thanks a lot, dikkememmen for the avast info.i was with a problem that the OS was constantly freezing for 2 seconds with utorrent running. Even that was just 2 seconds, it happens each 1 minute or something. It was bothering me a lot. After i closed the P2P protection from avast everything looks fine now. Well, so far. thanks again for the info. BTW, thanks to all utorrent developers for their efforts. I really like this torrent client! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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