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Sudin36

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Theater mode screen refresh slows down significantly
« on: October 04, 2007, 09:36:04 am »

    How can I prevent the Theater mode screen refresh from slowing down?  Standard mode is okay, however, many times when I switch from standard mode to theater there's a long time for screen refresh in each of the menu selections of the theater mode.  I have sidebars on my desktop.  Sometimes, their presence affect the speed of the theater mode screen refresh, sometimes (when removed) they don't.  I 've no other applications running in the background.  Thanks for your help.
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Re: Theater mode screen refresh slows down significantly
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2007, 07:40:14 am »

TheaterView uses 3D graphics.  The graphics card you use could be slow in drawing.  Updating the drivers for it might help.  Or switching cards.
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Sudin36

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Re: Theater mode screen refresh slows down significantly
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2007, 08:16:24 am »

     I'm using a ATI AIW 9600 video card with the latest catayst drivers installed.  Sometimes the theater mode screen refreshes fast.  Then, there's other times when it slows down very significally.  I've never in the past had any problems displaying 3-D graphics with my ATI card.
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Re: Theater mode screen refresh slows down significantly
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2007, 09:10:09 am »

I have the same problem (system specs below).  Does this ever happen in standard view for you with thumbnails? 

CPU: Athlon 64 X2 4600+(65W) Windsor 2.4GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Processor
MotherBoard: GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3 AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 ATX AMD
Video Card: GIGABYTE GV-NX76T256D-RH GeForce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Supported Video Card
Power Supply: XION PowerReal XON-600F14T-201 ATX12V 600W Power Supply 100 ~ 120Vac/200 ~ 240Vac
Memory: CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X2048-6400C4
Sound Card: HT OMEGA CLARO 7.1 Channels 24-bit 192KHz PCI Interface Sound Card
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Sudin36

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Re: Theater mode screen refresh slows down significantly
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2007, 09:00:14 am »

No, it has never happen in standard mode.  Hopefully, I will be replacing my video card soon.  Thanks for your response.
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Re: Theater mode screen refresh slows down significantly
« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2007, 09:21:08 am »

you could try the following:
go to options> theaterview> advanced and disable 'use high quality drawing' and put the framerate on forinstance 25fps
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Re: Theater mode screen refresh slows down significantly
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2007, 10:29:10 am »

No, it has never happen in standard mode.  Hopefully, I will be replacing my video card soon.  Thanks for your response.

I have one machine with a AIW 9600, but I haven't been using MC on it for a long time.  I can try it out though, if it'd help.
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Re: Theater mode screen refresh slows down significantly
« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2007, 11:04:23 am »

The high quality drawing feature can really slow it down.  I need to try it again because I have one of the latest cards from ATI now.  Before, nothing I had would run very well with that enabled.

I bet it's something else on your computer.  Maybe malware?
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