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My Toshiba Satelite laptop cannot handle playing videos very well. The computer is not extremely old and I already used the recovery disk so there aren't any viruses or spyware so its running pretty well. The problem isn't exactly with playing DVD-videos, its more with playing video files and streaming video online. The problem isn't with my internet connection because its fast and I can't play video files off my hard drive either. The problem I have is that the videos play and all but they skip a lot. They also make my computer run really slow. Even when I'm playing small 20 second videos. Someone made a good suggestion that I should try going into the computers setup and changing how much memory is used for video but I can't find that option. Here's the specs:
Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP2
System Model: Toshiba Satellite 1800
Processor: Intel Pentium III, ~1.1GHz
Memory: 240MB RAM
Video Card Name: Trident Video Accelerator CyberBlade XP Ai1
Display Memory: 16MB

First of all, where it says 240MB under specs that is RAM memory not hard drive memory, folks. Just wanted to make that clear. Alsom, the answers that I'm getting require me to buy extra parts. I'm looking for a way of tweaking settings or something in that form. Even if I wanted/needed to upgrade my graphics would that be possible with a laptop. I didn't know that the Toshiba laptop that I have could be modified like that?

sorry to say that there isn't going to be much you can do about a computer with those stats. you mention not wanting to buy anything but the memory really needs upgraded. and there isn't really anything you can do with laptop video cards.
there isn't really any settings you could change to make it work better. either add more memory and hope it helps. or you need a new laptop.

with todays techoloalgy you laptop is obslete it might help if you upgrade your ram to 1 gb and you upgrand you graphics card to ati radeon 800, make sure you have proper software to play videos of you hard drive. for better get new laptop

Well, to start... definantly upgrade your RAM to at least 1gb .. 240 ram is very slow. your video card also needs to be upgraded. that would correct it for now

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