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Sherwin Maxawow
11th April 2006, 01:04
Hello Milkdrop masters. I'm sorry ahead of time for making this such a LONG post, but please read over it so you understand my situation clearly, and then hopefully give me some intuitive ideas or answers to my problem. I would REALLY appreciate it. :)
As I mentioned in a recent post, how I just upgraded my whole system, with a new motherboard, CPU and a better video card.
But I cant seem to figure out why Milkdrop isnt running as fast and smooth as I used to seeing it run on my old system and video card.
My old system which I bought in 04 had no problem running at 70+ fps, with my ATI radeon 9600 Pro....which I would always set to the highest quality settings on everything, such as anti alising set to max 16 and so on. I would always set my graphics settings to the very best image quality possible....as opposed to the best possible performance because the performance wasnt effected much on any graphics applications I ever used. Plus I always appreciated knowing that I was always going to be seeing the very best textures and colors possible on my screen....even though this might not have mattered much with MD. But I could get some insane frame rates on Milk when I tried switching settings over to maximum performance, rather than max quality.....as in 120-130 fps....which personally is just too fast for my eyes. Any higher than the 70s is too high I think.

OK now you would think that the new 256 meg ram video card by Nvidia would run noticably better than my old ATI 9600 pro which had just 128 megs of ram, right? My new card is the Geforce 6600 LE in case you want to know.
But to be very honest the frame rates have been disapointing since I first tested out Milkdrop on my new system and card. It struggles during preset transitions, and on certain presets that my old system would never be phased by at all.
What the hell is up with all this is what I keep wondering???
Oh, I should also mention that two weeks before my Athlon CPU died, my comp had got a really bad virus making it impossible to open any program, file or anything no matter what, even in Safe Mode. This resulted in having to reformat my hard disk, losing a lot of valuable files and music. But finally after I finished formating and installing Windows XP, which I upgraded to XP Professional edition from Home edition, my computer still wasnt completely running like its old self. I only noticed it when I installed Winamp and ran Milkdrop being able to achieve the same consitant 70+ frame rates. I'm obessive compulsive about all the settings on Mildrop and my computer being exactly as they always were before too. But This was still on my old system, a week before my Atholon CPU went belly up. I am still using the same old hard drive now though, which I of course had to reformat again for installing the new motherboard.
The reason I mention all this is because someone once told me that they once had continual problems with a "evil" virus EVEN after they reformated their hard disk, and that it was ONLY after they used a program like "Kill Disk" to actually erase all old data that he elimated the problem. I say "EVIL VIRUS" because it must be evil, like an undead vampire virus if it can still mess up your system after you reformat it. An awful virus that could only have come out of Satan's ass. Well, maybe not that awful. but bad enough.
So do I need to do a Kill Disk? Or is their a better program that can wipe away and destroy even the most foul viruses? That is IF that really is what I'm dealing with?
I REBUKE THEE OH SATAN AND EVIL WRITTEN CODE!

Again thanks for anyone taking the time to read over this post, and for any help you can offer. :)

Sherwin Maxawow
11th April 2006, 09:56
Ok...I realize that its not an easy mystery for anyone to solve, or at the very least give some helpful insights to what might be causing the problem. Perhaps its way too vague a thing for anyone to have any answers to.
But I would be appreciative to anyone for at least throwing out a few possible causes for my low frame rates? Thanks again.

Anark1
11th April 2006, 14:03
what happens to me is it runs fine when i use 5.13 or older version of winamp, but since the release of 5.20, everything turns out to be slow

Sherwin Maxawow
14th April 2006, 10:44
I was just told by someone else the night before last practically the same thing, that the older versions are better than the new and latest versions.
Thanks for confirming this. I will definitely try it, but I almost feel like it is something more than just that. Like I did get a really nasty virus that rendered my mouse and keyboard unable to open or do anything no matter what.
But the strange thing was that even after I reformated my whole hard drive, it eventually like about a week later had the same problem not being able to click on anything and make it upen, nor have it upen or respond using the keyboard along which was just like before. This happened AFTER a complete slow speed reformat!
Then shortly after this, my old CPU died and I then got the new better board and CPU installed, as well as the new Geforce 256 meg ram video card.
Reformated it again for installing the new stuff of course, but then to my amazement.....Milkdrop was STILL struggling almost the same as before. EVEN on the new video card which has twice as much ram as the old one!
I also have had to do YET ANOTHER reformat and windows instalation just last week when it was starting to not respond again like before.

THis is what I am going to do next, sometime tomorrow.....and that is: Fdisk/MBR which is something I just learned about from someone.
More later. :) I will solve it soon.
Thank you again for the comment

Rovastar
15th April 2006, 12:46
The card you have is better than the 9600Pro but I would not say by loads it wouldn't be twice as fast. The LE is I beleive the cheapest version of the 6600 Range.

Sherwin Maxawow
23rd April 2006, 04:24
Thanks Rovastar for pointing that out to me. Because I've been trying to get an accurate simple idea about how well my new card stacks up to the other 6600 models, as well as my old ATI card. So thank you very much for the info.

Sherwin Maxawow
28th April 2006, 07:11
After I ran a through KILL DISK erasing every 160 gigs of magnetic code of my hard drive.....which took about 7 hours to do. I then decided to partition it 3 equal ways, running linux on one, and XP pro on the other two since I've never used linux before this.
Well to make a long story short....my problem with slow frame rates is no more. In fact.....Milkdrop now runs faster than ever and I've needed to cap the frame rate at a comfortable 55. I like to be able to keep up with the animation myself. 100+ is too fast for anyone to follow.

Phat
28th April 2006, 09:50
"100+ is too fast for anyone to follow."

Depends on how the preset responds to the audio really.

Also I think at about 180 fps or so presets that flash back and forth between black and white pick up this new 'solarized grey' color.