bryanstubbs

Just for the sake of completeness and in case anyone else has similar problems here is the solution! As soon as I connected the laptop to the internet. Auto updates immediately loaded 39 updates. Immediatley the image behaved perfectly with no stopping on either battery or mains power. I don't know which of the 39 updates did the trick but one of them did. I had already checked I was using the latest drivers. However there were still problems with the sound occasionally slowing down particularly when there were rapid image transitions. My son got to the bottom of this for me. I had already switched off power management options on the laptop but unknown to me there is a "Powermizer" system with the nVidia graphics card. As soon as we swiched this off the sound was and is perfect. Maybe I can get back to making sequences now!

The saga continues! I 've tried what you all recommended. The images still stop if no soundtrack. Running from task manager shows plenty of memory etc. Running from battery with no mains attached runs successfully with slight glitches on the sound. I've just transferred all the images and soundtrack for one sequence from my desktop to my laptop and built the exe file on the laptop with PTE v5.1. It runs smoothly even with the mains switched on! Any one know what's going on? I'm still suspicious of the sound though. There are very slight occasional glitches that are not on the original soundtrack built with audition.

O.K. Ken and Lin I've run dxdiag again and hit the display button. The following is returned: Device: Name:NVIDIA GeForce 8400M Manuf:NVIDIA Chip Type: GeForce 8400M GS DAC Type: Integrated RAMDAC Approx Total memory:512MB Current Display mode: 1280X800 (32bit) (60Hz) Monitor :Default monitor Drivers: Main driver:nv4_disp.dll version:6.14.0011.7431 (English) Date: 04/03/2008 WHQ Logo'd:Yes Mini VDD:nv4_mini.sys VDD:n/a DDI version:9(or higher) DirectX Features: DirectDraw Acceleration:enabled Direct3D Acceleration Enabled AGP Texture Acceleration Enabled Notes: No problems found To test DirectDraw functionality, click button To test 3D functionality click button Does this tell us anything?

First of all let me thank you all for trying to help with this annoying and perplexing problem. I do definitely have a 256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS (64 bit) Graphic card in a vostro 1510 laptop. I am reading GeForce 8400M GS from the nvidia control panel on the laptop at the moment. Now whether this is some cut down version of it, I can't tell or whether Dell have "sqeezed" it in and that is the problem!! I have run a few other of my sequences on the laptop all of which run quite happily on my Dell dimension 2400 desktop with integrated intel graphics. One old sequence from about 3 years ago has now run without fault 3 times on the laptop. In all the others the image stops in various places and the sound carries on to the end. I have noticed that the sound occasionally slows down slightly and then catches up or there is a slight glitch in the sound on the sequences that don't run properly. I have run the dxdiag software and that does not show a problem. That is where we are at present. I'm going out to cut the lawns!

Can't do this yet Ken. Have to wait till my wireless router arrives later this week. However the sequences I have tried have run successfully on several other computers. I'll give Beechbrook a go later.

I have just bought a new laptop and am having problems trying to run pte sequences I have run successfully on a lower spec desktop. I have bought a Dell Vostro 1510 with 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS graphics card. What happens is the sequence sometimes stops on an image. The soundtrack continues to the end with the same image displayed. At the end of the soundtrack it returns normally to the desktop. I am running XP Pro on the laptop. The only clue I have is that sequences seem to run normally when I run the laptop from the battery but not when I run it attached to the mains. However this could be a coincidence. I haven't done more than a half a dozen runs. The two sequences I have been trying were made on a 4 yr old Dell dimension 2400 with on board graphics and made using pte v4.48. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I understand nVidia GeForce 8600M GT is fine with PTE V5 but is there any experience out there using nVidia GeForce 8400 GS? I am about to buy a laptop with the 8400 graphics card in but would like some reassurance before I take the plunge.

Many thanks to both of you for your suggestions. We'll try them out.

I wonder if anyone has had a similar problem to the one we have at present on our Leeds AV Group computer? When a show of several PTE sequences is being run from a menu created in PTE, on some occassions at the end of a sequence the computer hangs and will not return to the menu. The individual sequences run OK and on other computers they run OK from the menu. The problem seems to be random, it does not happen with every sequence. The club computer has been checked for viruses etc and all seems well. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Bryan Stubbs