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Originally Posted by RIKKI TIKKI
Dave,
I've been having an issue with the lyric sync also, and I believe it is maybe the video card giving me the problem. Check and see how much video ram you have. Can you restart the song (restart button) and have the lyrics and music re-sync? Also, have you have updated your video card drivers? Maybe one of the newest drivers is the culprit. Are both of your computer systems having this problem? Are both your systems the same? I am in the process of re-evaluating the drivers I updated when I made all the changes that 4.xx required, if I can figure it out, I'll be back to let you know!
Rick
Rikki Tikki Karaoke
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64mB ram is not very much at all when trying to force video and visual effects on a computer. Also, most laptops video card is "shared" ram, which means some of that 64 mB is also shared with the computer.
I am guessing that on a laptop you may need close to 256 mB "dedicated" ram for good operation in video use.
Sometimes you can uncheck "graphics" acceleration in your preeferences and that seems to help, but then again it has been known to disallow other video functions at the same time. This is my experience with mixing videos for DJ'ing and VJ'ing at night clubs.
For some reason laptops are notorious for "bad" video mixing, may have something to do when they tend to heat up, they actually "remove" ram from the machine as a cooling effect. ,i.e., using less ram produces less heat, and that combined with shared ram from the video card. The FX7300 Nvidea has been singled out as causing videos to freeze in laptops using dj programs.
The 8000 series has not been recommended either.
I spent two years on VJ forums trying to get my laptop to run videos properly, very difficult. I ended up buying a shuttle (Mini-PC) with a 256 mB "deicated" video card ATI. ATI has been recommended for "better" video usage in laptops as well.