[hardvark]

I just recently bought a HTPC off a forum member and have updated it for Blu-ray, ie; added a LG blu-ray burner,4 gigs of ram, TMT3 . It has a duo core 5200 I believe and a gigabite 8500 videocard.

when I first got it back form the computer guy at work it would only play a few moments and would reboot/crash/something crazy

and give me a "video driver failed " message or something so I went to the envida site and downloaded the newest driver . That seem to fix it for the most part but it still seem to fail once or so in some movies ,is the 8500 borderline for blu-ray? seems to play with less trouble from hard drive than disk

 

[renethx]

8500 GT is good enough for BD movies. Exactly what movie(s) does it fail to play?

 

[hardvark]

Troy failed off disk 1sn or twice off disk 0 times played off hard drive files ,love actually 1sn or twice of disk,some movie play alright off disk...thought card might be borderline maybe fault under difficult load and maybe need something 'Beefer"

 

[renethx]

Maybe the lack of VC-1 decode is the cause?