Delay in Playing Sounds

Hi all. Whenever I use Windows Media Player to play an album that is stored on the hard drive, for the last 15 seconds, it will stop and start. I think this is as it is getting ready to play the next track, it is loading it, and consequently, the one currently playing suffers. On my PC, which is seven years old, it never used to do this, and the laptop that I am on, is a lot more powerful. Going from a 1.5GHZ processor to 1.8, from 512MB RAM to 1GB etc etc. It doesn't just do it with Media Player. For example, when playing poker, as the cards are dealt, the sound effect for that, there is a delay in playing each card. Any ideas?

 

Hello enrique,

You're not saying which player version you have.

In the meantime, a link to WMP10 troubleshooting guide with links to other versions and KB articles.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/10/troubleshooting.aspx

Regards - Charles

 

Ah, yeah, it's the latest one, number 11.

 

Hi enrique,

See if the WMP11 problem/solution linked to helps with yours:

http://blogs.msdn.com/saveenr/archi...ps-stuttering-in-windows-media-player-11.aspx

Regards - Charles

 

Worked an absolute treat, thanks for that Charles. Just had to disable the enhancements.

 

Hi enrique,

Thanks for the post back Good to know the link was usefull.

Regards - charles