Cover Flow Lags/Choppy

Hi
I use iTunes 8 on quite a high spec pc. (dells xps m1730, core 2 duo 2.4 ghz w 4 gig ram on vista home premium - sli 8800m GTX) The cover flow is a bit laggy like it's running at only 5 fps. On my Windows XP laptop with lower spec it flows smooth. Now my Vista machine is very fast in everything else & from a gaming perspective is great so I find the poor cover flow on iTunes strange (everything else on ITunes is fine). Even cover flow in the iTunes store browsing films etc lags. Is this a common problem? Maybe vista is a culprit? It's not a major problem but is definetely an annoyance.

I don't know the solution to your problem but "not messing with your graphics card drivers" is not a good philosophy to have, particularly if you play games on it like you say. A good deal of the problems you'll have with anything on your computer are driver issues and not updating drivers is a good way to let problems crop up.
Pretty much any response to any graphics related issue on any tech support forum anywhere begins with "do you have the latest drivers?" And since you said you don't and/or don't know, I'd go check it out.
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Message was edited by: Full-Throttle

Full-Throttle wrote:
I just recently upgraded my computer to Windows Vista Home Premium (32-Bit). I preformed a clean install and every program I have tried so far (Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2142, Age of Empires 3, Halo: Combat Evolved, Microsoft Office XP, etc.) have worked fine, however, iTunes is having some problems (7.4.1.2). First, cover flow does not work right. It can get it to run, but it is super slow. It ran very smoothly on Windows XP, now on Vista it skips every over album cover and is very choppy. It seems like it is running at 3 FPS. Also, none of my videos will play in Quictime or iTunes. The strange thing is I can play the same videos in VLC and GOM and they work great. I just went to nVidia's web site and installed the latest drivers and my games runs fine so I don't think it is a driver issue but I am not sure.
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My mac is the new Mac book pro 15.4 inch screen and I connect my mac pro to external display e.g. Samsung LCD monitor 24 inches.
The bug is that I can not PROPERLY view full screen (in external display) for some application e.g. iTunes, and Front Row.
- When I use iTunes, I can not properly view Cover Flow view in full screen (in the external display screen) except the case of mirror display.
- For Front Row, I can not view full screen in external display but only my mac display.
However, for other DVD or VDO players, I can view movie on external display in full screen and I still be able to do other works on my mac screen.
Please let me know how to solve it.

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so as I see it people with this problem have 3 options
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