Video plays slowly, causes sound to stutter

Hello,

When playing back certain video files in windows xp, the video plays slowly
but the audio plays at the correct speed. The video is slightly off, and
this causes the sound to stutter while the video catches up.

This is a new development, but one that I cannot seem to trace the cause for.

I have reinstalled codecs, and even installed windows media player 11 to try
to cure the problem.

This happens in games such as battlefield 2142 demo, Oblivion, Gothic 3 etc.
I know that Oblivion uses .bik files, but I don't about the other games.

Can someone explain how this happens, and give me a way to cure it?

Thanks,

Dan

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"DPolwarth" <DPolwarth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6336E88A-95B8-441B-AA1E-8D42ABBA4EDF@microsoft.com...

> Hello,
>
> When playing back certain video files in windows xp, the video plays
> slowly
> but the audio plays at the correct speed. The video is slightly off, and
> this causes the sound to stutter while the video catches up.
>
> This is a new development, but one that I cannot seem to trace the cause
> for.
>
> I have reinstalled codecs, and even installed windows media player 11 to
> try
> to cure the problem.
>
> This happens in games such as battlefield 2142 demo, Oblivion, Gothic 3
> etc.
> I know that Oblivion uses .bik files, but I don't about the other games.
>
> Can someone explain how this happens, and give me a way to cure it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan