Core i7, i5 & i3 LGA1156 Processors Thread: Clarkdale Supports HD Audio Bitstreaming! - Page 28

I would have to say so does TMT3, at least in my experience so far. It won't even play DVDs. Get nothing but black vertical lines across the screen. WMP doesn't do this. Tried the trial of PDVD9 and it seems to work fine for DVD and Blu ray. Haven't had much time to really test it yet.

I'm not used to the display settings for this IGP, I would assume refresh rate equals FPS? I really didn't have much experience with this setting for the nvidia 9300 igp. Should this be set to 24hz for Blu ray if the TV will accept it?
The default setting when using extended desktop to a Panasonic LCD is 30hz
which seems to work O.K. with PDVD for DVD and Blu ray.

Thanks.

This is exacty what happened to me as well. Coming out of S3 mode adds the analog audio devices I had DISABLED in the BIOS.

This is on the Intel DH55TC motherboard.

TMT3 played BD folder, with blocky start and slight stutter. With disk had a difficult start.
Played DVD, again hesitant start.

It has a difficult time dropping in and out of Aero. On other system, 7/32 TMT3 does not drop out of Aero for some reason. When Aero is disabled, TMT goes to full screen then windowed and same when closing down. Sometime freezes 10/30 seconds.

TMT3.160 Intel drivers on disk. 7/64 i3 530

These are the versions of the Blu-Ray payers I tried, both exhibiting the same 24p tearing:

TotalMedia Theatre 3 Platinum version 3.0.1.161
PowerDVD9 version 9.0.2201.0

Below you can find the rest of the configuration. I assembled the hardware, installed the OS, updated the BIOS and drivers, installed the Blu-Ray players, played The Dark Knight BR, and immediately got the tearing in the opening sequence.

MB: Intel DH55DC
CPU: Intel i3-530
MEM: 2GB DDR3 1333
SSD: Intel X25-M G2
BRD: LG CH08LS

OS: Windows 7 32 bit
BIOS & Drivers: Latest from Intel DH55DC support site

TV: Pioneer LX6090 and Philips 52PFL9632

So far everyone who has complained about tearing has a i3.. anyone with a i5 that exhibits this?

No tearing here but I use 60.

Adding another Gig ram solved hesitation and improved Aero dropout.
Now will try WinDvd2010.

How many gigs of ram are you at now total?

Anyone know if its possible to mount a Scythe Big Shuriken on the DH55TC motherboard or any of the other available motherboards without blocking any of the RAM slots?

2, I started with 1 since I was borrowing from another system.
DDR3 1600
WinDvd2010 was a little quicker than TMT3. No folders is annoying.

No tearing for me on i3 so far. Definite stutter on PDVD but no tearing. This was during my brief testing at 50 and 24Hz on Friday.

More testing tomorrow.

Wo0zy

I see people still complaining about swapped rear/ side channels in a 5.1 setup on both ATI and nVIDIA threads. Nice to see the Intel drivers offering both configs (2x 5.1 options) for those people that don't know better.

Haven't tested the incorrect config yet but test tones played through a correctly wired AVR after selecting the 5.1 config for "sides"

Wo0zy

Can you test this with "The Dark Knight" Blu-Ray? The opening sequence is has a full-screen 16:9 scene, that consistently tears for me.

Of note is Dolby Digital Plus is in the supported list.

Also add that there are no EDID issues like I have with the ATI 5750 with Realtek Hdmi WinDvd2010 bitstreams. Come on TMT3!

I could install Big ShurikeN both on DH55TC and P7H55D-M EVO without interference with RAM and other components, but setted RAM earlier than cooler because of its huge fins.

I'll have to purchase it first. Will see about that tomorrow.

Wo0zy

Yeah. Looking good. Also hoping the TMT update is a good one.

Need to work on the AVR switching issue I reported earlier but other than that things look good so far.

Hopfully I'll get a good amount of time with it tomorrow

Wo0zy

I have noticed one problem, but I don't know whether it is TMT3 or the Intel drivers or something else. When playing the BD of Braveheart, the movie itself is fine, but the opening trailers are pretty messed up. The trailers are compressed in the X direction, covering only the left half of the screen or window, and on top of that, it is completely green! I'm not sure what happened to the red or blue. Can anybody else confirm this? (TMT3 160, W7 64 bit, Intel graphics drivers 15.16.6.2025, 24fps)

I've got the hdmi to the AVR and monitor on vga and it's vga. My Xbox does vga better.

What I want to do is add a 4670 so I can have digital output to the monitor.

Any experiences with that?

As stated earlier, Corel is very good with Intel, but just lacks the options ArcSoft kept.

Using 60 here. 2 stutters initial Paramount opening. Otherwise smooth playback for the last few minutes. Of course TMT and WinDVD each want playback.

Doing a quick glance at newegg, the Scythe Big Shuriken doesn't list LGA1156 in its compatibility list. The mounting holes for LGA1156 heatsink/fans are different from LGA1366.

Are you planning on populating all 4 DIMMs? On the DH55TC, the DIMM closest to the CPU should not be used if you have only 2 DIMMs. The next one over, and the one furthest away are the ones to populate if you have 2 DIMMs.

I did mount a Tuniq T-120 Extreme (very tall) in my DH55TC, and it did clear the ram, but barely. If you have tall ram with extra fins, it probably would not clear. I can't install or remove ram from the closest 2 DIMM slots unless I remove the Tuniq heatsink.

I have seen this also on the "Kung Fu Panda" Blu-Ray. I think I "fixed" it by changing a TMT3 option (Hardware decoding, Force Deinterlacing, something like that). I'm not near the PC right now, so I can't check.

No mate. Not tried anthing like that yet. Thought I'd read (but haven't tried) that simultaneous HDMI and DVI worked with clarkdale/H5x?

May have missed the point here as it's getting late. If you can clarify for the morning I'll be happy to test for you.

Wo0zy

Ahh, now I see it very clearly. It is like the top 4 rows of pixels are a couple of frames behind the rest of the picture.

I think that everything else that I've watched was at least slightly letterboxed. Then I threw in a TV show on BD that is exactly 16:9, and it jumped out at me.

This is with a Core i5 661, and it happens both in 24fps and 60fps.

Edit: Now here is an interesting twist. I get this top 4 row pixel lag when AnyDVD-HD is disabled, but it plays beautifully when it is enabled. I had just disabled ADVD to see if that may have been causing that green trailer issue with Braveheart, and I didn't enable it before I started playing a full 16:9 title.

For some reason, after a few blinks vga is gone. had to hot swap to hdmi.

No DVI and hdmi at the same time, only vga and digital. But currently, that has crapped out.

Yup. Turn off hardware acceleration in TMT3 and the problem goes away.

I have tested this and although it features the two types of config and plays them out of the correct speakers, it doesn't work correctly from TMT. Although it isn't a TMT issue as it does the same with a 5.1 WMA in Media Player. It might be different for you :P

I can confirm this. I'm using it on my GA-H55M-S2H board with no problem. It's also very quiet.

Finally got my i3-530 and Intel DH55TC combo up and running today.

My observations so far,

the good:

-bitstreaming with windvd 2010 does indeed work

-WASAPI with jriver's MC14 works
I tried 2.0/16/44.1, 2.0/16/48, 5.1/16/48, 5.1/24/96, 2.0/24/192 and a DTS encoded tracks and all played as soon as I set buffering to 0.44s.

the not so good:
-a few drop outs while watching Terminator Salvation.
I set the video output to 24 Hz and it appears to output proper 23.98 as my preamp processor's OSD (Integra 9.8) was disabled.
4 times during the movie, playback stuttered for several seconds and I heard some kind of "digital noise", then playback resumed.

-MC7: can't get MC7 to work in exclusive mode. If I want to play music through MC14 with wasapi or BDs through WinDVD with bitstreaming I have to enable exclusive mode, but if I want to watch TV through MC7 I have to disable exclusive mode and mc7 decodes Dolby Digital and output multichannel, sigh. With my ATI card I had to make sure "Disable all enhancements" wasn't checked, but it does not seem to make a difference with the Intel GPU. Does anyone know how to get MC7 to work properly?

/Anders