I recently started to experience a major lag with all my media including downloaded videos, streaming videos, video games, but not music.
The media will play just fine for a few seconds but then will either freeze or playback will be choppy.
Ive performed virus and spyware scans but nothing.

Im using an Acer Aspire 5102WLMi
AMD Turion 64x2 Mobile Technology TL50

Please help
Thank you.

Do you have the latest version of Flash?

Yes i just recently re-installed flash and made sure it was up to date

Then you need to be more specific about what you're having trouble with. If it's streaming video, post a link and we'll take a look at it. If you're having trouble with other things, you should look at updating video drivers.

Its not one thing in particular, its everything, no matter what i play theres a lag or choppy playback.
How would i go about updating the video drivers? Sorry im not very computer savvy when it comes to that stuff...

What is your video card?

I think its WDM Video for Windows Capture Driver (Win 32)

You think or you know?

Thats what shows under the device manager properties of Sound, video, and game controllers

Take a look at this.




http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/wdmoverview.mspx

Im sorry i dont understand what it is im supposed to be looking at...everything on that page to me is like gibberish...
Is there something im supposed to download...?

Oh Ok. We need to know the manufacturer of the sound card.

The only thing it says under manufacturer for all my drivers including my audio and video cards is (Standard system devices)

It should give you the manufacturer of the video card under System Information>Display. My video card is by NVidia.

Oh ok i found it, ill copy and paste the info:

Video Card
Model: ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M Series
Driver: ati2mtag.sys

It does not give a manufacturer name, but i hope this helps

ATI is the manufacturer.




http://www.dynamiclink.nl/htmfiles/info_sys/info_a/160.htm

Am i redownloading the driver because its possible that its damaged? Just curious...

I dunno. It's hard to say. It's not like it can hurt your computer. Sometimes these things can be very difficult to diagnose because you're looking for a quick fix and sometimes there isn't one. You have to try different things.

I installed it but the problem persists

You could try to adjust settings within Flash though I doubt that is the problem. Check out this link.





http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/08/16/s...ernal-websites/

did that, ran the CC cleaner as well, but nothing

I suggest you post a link of something you are trying to watch so I can take a look at it.

Its not a problem with something specific that im trying to watch its with any video or anything that uses motion picture, any video i try to watch on youtube or dailymotion for example is either choppy or freezes completely as well as any video that i play on windows media player, real player, quicktime, or divX player, it doesnt matter what i view EVERYTHING expericences the same problem

Then it could be anything. Maybe you don't have enough RAM or your computer isn't powerful enough. There is no quick fix and you're being too vague. You're going to have to send in specific examples or there's no real way to help you. We've seen this before with this kind of problem. When people make a blanket statement like you have, it's usually wrong.

Which browser are you using?
Has it always been laggy?

Ive been using mozilla firefox
I reinstalled java and it fixed the problem, im guessing something in my java program was corrupt

Yep flash and Java have been known to cause problems when both of them are on.
Read this thread.

I had a similar problem. It would up being a my firewall. Try to turn this off and see what impact it has.