Disappointing video performance in 2010 MBP

[askywalker]

I have a 15" 2010 MBP. I got it well spec'd, with 7200 drive, 8 GB ram, best CPU...

First thing I did was bootcamp. Went smoothly - did a 400 gb partition for Windows 7. The drivers all installed fine and Windows 7 does alright.

My Windows Experience scores:
Processor: 6.9
RAM: 6.9
Graphic: 6.4
Gaming graphics: 6.4
Hard drive: 5.9

Things look good... But I am having trouble playing hidef content - VLC is choppy on a bunch of files that play smooth as silk when booted into Mac OS - and actually even play ok on my old Santa Rosa 15" MBP. Quicktime is also slow

I have always found VLC to be very solid. (actually use it on the Mac side for this test as well). I tried playing with the hardware acceleration toggle, and it does seem better with it disabled - anyone else having issues playing hidef media on the windows side of this MBP?

 

[johnhw]

Have you tried installing the drivers yet?

Had the same problem, inserted the OS X Snow Leopard disk (or your OS X Install disk), rebooted, everything works well.

 

[askywalker]

Yes - I installed the drivers from the disc.

What are your Windows Experience scores? Much different than mine?

 

[johnhw]

Yes - I installed the drivers from the disc.

What are your Windows Experience scores? Much different than mine?

(gfx card did ruin it)

but yours should be better since I only have a 9400M gfx card

 

[askywalker]

(gfx card did ruin it)

but yours should be better since I only have a 9400M gfx card

Thanks. My scores are fine I guess - so it must be something strange with VLC or with my video drivers. I wonder if others are having this problem that have the same video card - it is happening to all my 1080p video files - stuttering and video choppiness.

I will turn off the hardware acceleration in VLC and try watching most video content from the mac os - so no big deal I suppose...