Did your video card have at least 512 MB of ram for the visualizations? Microsoft adopted Lil Jon as the standard benchmark in media player visualization performance, so you know your vid card needs enough RAM and timings to perform. Mine is liquid cooled so the heat-crunk ratio is under 2.1 when the bass hits. The audio performance staggers when playing Lil Jon, so I'm thinking I'll upgrade to 10.3 soon but for now I can play Usher just fine so I don't need more performance.