I can run Winamp and Neverwinter Nights (highest everything) with Winamp (real-time quality), and it's fairly smooth (I have an XP 2700, and a 4200RPM hard drive). I once tried it with WMP, and everything was incredibly choppy, not to mention that the sound skipped/cut out.dciscouts said:Winamp is waaay better than Windows Media for about 98% of what I'm trying to do for the pure fact that it isn't the resource hog the WMP is... Winamp hovers around 5% of system resources where WMP can go anywhere between 40% and 85%!!! grr...