I have a intel 2.4 cpu and 512mb memory with a r9500pro video card,
Should I be able to play the trailers that are 720p? For the life of me I can't get any of them to play smooth. Tried with of course WMP9 and then in zoom player, both very very choppy. Also when I play them nothing else is running in windows.
otherwise 2.4 is more then fast enough for 720p, I have heard of people runnign it fine on athlon 1600s. What OS? you got directx9 installed? try updating to the latest video drivers. do you have multiple monitors on this machine? (if so turn all but one of htem off and try again).
I do have XP sp1 with directx9 with cat 3.2 for the radeon.
The card is running now at 4x but i can up it to 8x(never tried)
The hard drives are set to auto udma mode...
During play back the cpy hits 100%
I only have my pj hooked up to the htpc using default monitor driver.
one small thing, when it does play a bit I do notice some small I guess you can say digital noise? maybe a small light darkish snow over the picture? I see this alot on dvd's too. could this be removed or is it always going to be there ?
I couldn't get smooth playback in WMP9 on my 2 GHz P4, but then I tried with the Sonic CP 1.5 player and it was smooth as silk. Also remember to disable ffdshow before viewing.
My P4 Celeron 1.8 plays all the wm9 trailers smooth as silk with Zoomplayer on my Radeon 9500 with DDR2700 and 3200. DDR ram is plenty good enough. RDRAM blew their chances and dual DDR & DDR2 will make their misery short (imo .
I too was surprised when my P4 1.9ghz with 256 rdram system (i850 chipset) worked flawlessly on any of the demos on MS's website. I use XP Pro with basically all non-crucial services running. And this is with wmp9.
On a freshly installed XP system with no ATI driver downloads I get some strange ghosting, like some weird looking fractal-like macro blocks.
This is on a 2.4 Ghz P4 with 768 MB rdram memory and a Radeon LE card. I don't know if the Radeon LE supports fast writes.
This does not occur on WM9 material I encode myself.
- Tom
edit: Before I go all crazy installing new stuff, I'm currently running DirectX 8.1 and the Radeon drivers from my XP CD. Anybody know if an update to either of these is required to play wmv files. I can play WM9 files in avi's just fine.
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