New m15x, but still LOW FPS!

[dellusional-viper]

Hi everyone,

My old laptop screen has just died, so I thought perfect time to buy a new laptop.

I found this Alienware m15x for a good price with the following specs:

Intel i7 Q720 1.6 Ghz Quad-Core
4.gb DDR3 RAM
Nvidia GTX 260m 1GB VRam
250GB 7,500rpm SATA HDD

After it arrived, and installed Windows 7 Ultimate x64 with Resolume 3.1.3, and started loading a few 3-4 second clips I bought of Resolume. Running a 640x480 compisition, with 3 layers, 6 videos on the deck, of which 3 are playing, I get a measly 10-12 fps: and thats just connecting it onto 1 monitor at 1024x768 through VGA! I've tried dropping the resolution to 400x300 to see if there would be a jump in the frame rate, but nothing, still 9-13 fps. The only rise in frame rate i get is when I deselect a layer so only 2 layers are playing, then it jumps to about 17fps, then when i deslect another layer it jumps to about 22fps with one running layer.

I can't actually pin-point what would be causing this because with my previous laptop:

A 5 year old AJP:

Intel Core-Duo 2,4 Ghz, 4GB RAM, Nvidia 8800 GTM 512mb VRAM, 360GB SATA HDD.

I was able to run up to 4 decks with about 16: 2s-3min clips, and the only time I got a drop in my frame rate was when I was switching decks, then it would drop from about 26-28fps to about 15fps which wasn't too bad.

If anyone can help me with this that would be AMAZING because I just got this yesterday, but I have a small gig tonight!

Thanks

[dellusional-viper]

Oh and I have just installed the Nvidia System Monitor to see how much of the G-Card was being used and its says for playing 2 layers = 8% and 3 Layers = 12%, so it doesnt seem to be running of the card at all!

[sleepytom]

what codec are your clips? make sure you have a good decompressor installed for your chosen codec - sounds like your running mjpeg on the built in windows decompressor to me.

[dellusional-viper]

I'm running the DXV Codec, with Resolume made .mov's.

[Joris]

When you say 'Resolume made .movs', do you mean videos recorded with Resolume's recording function?