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Okay bit of background...
Used to have an ATi HD 4830 in my main HTPC which crapped out (started getting artifacts with HA on when playing videos, as well as in other 2D content). So I RMA'd the card with XFX.
Now in the meantime I had an HD 5670 in my other HTPC (which is hardly ever used) so I decided while the 4830 was out, I'd put in the 5670. Now my Catalyst drivers were pretty old on the HTPC with the 4830 (everything worked I had no reason to update them really) so I figured the old drivers were not going to support the 5670 so I just uninstalled them before I removed the 4830.
Popped in the 5670 and installed the latest drivers. Everything worked fine but when I tried TMT3 (I have both 3 and 5) I was getting horrible stuttering on playback with audio out set to HDMI - Mix to PCM uncompressed (my receiver only supports LPCM at best) also when stopping playback I got this horrible static noise through my receiver (see below). When I switched it to send the DTS core or to DD or pretty much anything else, playback was fine.
So then I tried TMT5 and it worked fine (no stuttering)--or so I thought. As soon as I pause or skip a chapter or do anything to interrupt the audio stream, when the audio resumes (unpausing for example) I got this extremely loud (like 0dB level?) static/white noise blasted through all the speakers!
Again, switching to any other format worked, but there was a serious problem with LPCM over HDMI.
I tried swapping to Realtek's version of the HDMI driver, to no avail. Chalking it up to some driver issue, I just left it and said I'd deal with it when I got the replacement for the 4830. I just didn't bother using the HTPC for BD playback for the time being.
Fast Forward to this week when I got the return from XFX...
XFX sent me a 6750 to replace my defective 4830. Would have been nicer if they gave me a 6770 lol, but hey the 6750 is faster than and uses a lot less power than my old 4830; not to mention the 6750 is physically a lot smaller too. As everyone knows the 6750/6770 are just 5750/5770 cards with newer BIOS (to support BD3D and whatnot).
So I get around to installing this card (I again removed the drivers when I took out the 5670 as AMD had one revision newer now).
Well guess what? Same exact problem. This time I tried about everything you can think of, and NOTHING has solved the problem
I found this thread (among others on google):
http://www.avsforum.com/t/1281518/arcsoft-tmt-and-loud-static
But there's no solution there. This seems to be a somewhat common problem but I can't't find the fix for it. Anyone know what is going on here and how you fix it?
Used to have an ATi HD 4830 in my main HTPC which crapped out (started getting artifacts with HA on when playing videos, as well as in other 2D content). So I RMA'd the card with XFX.
Now in the meantime I had an HD 5670 in my other HTPC (which is hardly ever used) so I decided while the 4830 was out, I'd put in the 5670. Now my Catalyst drivers were pretty old on the HTPC with the 4830 (everything worked I had no reason to update them really) so I figured the old drivers were not going to support the 5670 so I just uninstalled them before I removed the 4830.
Popped in the 5670 and installed the latest drivers. Everything worked fine but when I tried TMT3 (I have both 3 and 5) I was getting horrible stuttering on playback with audio out set to HDMI - Mix to PCM uncompressed (my receiver only supports LPCM at best) also when stopping playback I got this horrible static noise through my receiver (see below). When I switched it to send the DTS core or to DD or pretty much anything else, playback was fine.
So then I tried TMT5 and it worked fine (no stuttering)--or so I thought. As soon as I pause or skip a chapter or do anything to interrupt the audio stream, when the audio resumes (unpausing for example) I got this extremely loud (like 0dB level?) static/white noise blasted through all the speakers!

I tried swapping to Realtek's version of the HDMI driver, to no avail. Chalking it up to some driver issue, I just left it and said I'd deal with it when I got the replacement for the 4830. I just didn't bother using the HTPC for BD playback for the time being.
Fast Forward to this week when I got the return from XFX...
XFX sent me a 6750 to replace my defective 4830. Would have been nicer if they gave me a 6770 lol, but hey the 6750 is faster than and uses a lot less power than my old 4830; not to mention the 6750 is physically a lot smaller too. As everyone knows the 6750/6770 are just 5750/5770 cards with newer BIOS (to support BD3D and whatnot).
So I get around to installing this card (I again removed the drivers when I took out the 5670 as AMD had one revision newer now).
Well guess what? Same exact problem. This time I tried about everything you can think of, and NOTHING has solved the problem

I found this thread (among others on google):
http://www.avsforum.com/t/1281518/arcsoft-tmt-and-loud-static
But there's no solution there. This seems to be a somewhat common problem but I can't't find the fix for it. Anyone know what is going on here and how you fix it?