I've been thinking of adding a blu-ray drive to my PC so that I can join in the madness that is trying to play HD content reliably on a PC (I guess I don't have enough stress in my life). I'm currently using my PC to play DVDs on my television, with a Geforce 7600 GT. I'd be upgrading the card to something like a n 8800gt (I want to be able to play games too).
The issue is, right now I'm running Windows XP, and really don't want to have to switch to Vista. I'm aware of the cluster f*** that was Nvidia driver support for hardware acceleration in XP back in 2007, but I thought it had all been worked out. However, I've read some recent posts about Nvidia hardware features such as motion-adaptive deinterlacing and others not working in Windows XP.
So what is the status of driver support and hardware acceleration in Windows XP? Is Nvidia still broken? Does ATI fare better?
Thanks for the help!
The issue is, right now I'm running Windows XP, and really don't want to have to switch to Vista. I'm aware of the cluster f*** that was Nvidia driver support for hardware acceleration in XP back in 2007, but I thought it had all been worked out. However, I've read some recent posts about Nvidia hardware features such as motion-adaptive deinterlacing and others not working in Windows XP.
So what is the status of driver support and hardware acceleration in Windows XP? Is Nvidia still broken? Does ATI fare better?
Thanks for the help!
