Winamp skips and stutters when playing MP3 – what can I do?
Winamp will skip at times on the best of machines, especially when a dialup network connection is established, for example. But if skipping occurs more frequently, the problem is probably caused by one of two things: a) Your PC is too weak to really handle playing MP3 whilst doing other things – that is the CPU is too slow, there is not enough memory, and / or the disk I/O is too slow… or: b) Some other driver on your machine, most likely your video driver, is hogging the bus, and interfering with your MP3 player. If the problem is case b, then MP3 will probably play ok if you do nothing, but will break up as soon as you start moving your mouse, scrolling, etc. About the only solution for this is to either fiddle with the settings in your video driver or to use a different video driver (either download a new one from the vendor of your video card, or use one of the Windows generic ones, which will reduce your video performance but probably fix your MP3 problem). If the problem is cas
