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Somehow, through some act of god, I got the jaggies/horizontal tearing to go away with Powerdesk 5.13 and the Cinemaster engine 1.029. Quite frankly, I'm scared to even touch it, because it _is_ working. But, I'd like to talk to other people, and see if we can figure out a common thread here--why it suddenly started working for me, since it did not before.
Here's what I've done recently to the system, in order:
Mystique 8Meg G200 running on P2-400, 128Ram,
on Bx6 motherboard with AGP set at 1/1
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Reinst of Win98SE.
Reinst of ATI 3.1 player package, which does install 1.028 engine (I think.) Tried it out, jaggy city--ugh.
Played with Region Selector, but none of the settings seemed to help. Changing resolutions had no effect, changing color depths had no effect.
Install Celeron 366, clock it at 83Mhz X5.5 (458Mhz.) Just for the hell of it, set AGP at 1/1 and force AGP 2X with Powerdesk. To my chagrin, it worked (I don't think I've ever run this card at 2X AGP.)
At some point ATI got screwed up, so I reinstalled the 3.1 package. It acted (during the install) like it was installing the DXMedia components, but I don't know for sure if it did. Before it rebooted I dumped the files for the 1.029 engine into the system dir, and rebooted.
Tried out a DVD, and it isn't jaggy anymore.
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So, as you can see, there are quite a few variables here, and I don't want to toy with many of them because the playback DOES look good
So, anyone who wants to work on this with me lemme know. Drop me email at cswan@connectria.com, or let's discuss it here...I'd like to figure out what exactly I did to get it working, lest it puke on itself again.
Here's what I've done recently to the system, in order:
Mystique 8Meg G200 running on P2-400, 128Ram,
on Bx6 motherboard with AGP set at 1/1
--------------------------------------------
Reinst of Win98SE.
Reinst of ATI 3.1 player package, which does install 1.028 engine (I think.) Tried it out, jaggy city--ugh.
Played with Region Selector, but none of the settings seemed to help. Changing resolutions had no effect, changing color depths had no effect.
Install Celeron 366, clock it at 83Mhz X5.5 (458Mhz.) Just for the hell of it, set AGP at 1/1 and force AGP 2X with Powerdesk. To my chagrin, it worked (I don't think I've ever run this card at 2X AGP.)
At some point ATI got screwed up, so I reinstalled the 3.1 package. It acted (during the install) like it was installing the DXMedia components, but I don't know for sure if it did. Before it rebooted I dumped the files for the 1.029 engine into the system dir, and rebooted.
Tried out a DVD, and it isn't jaggy anymore.
---
So, as you can see, there are quite a few variables here, and I don't want to toy with many of them because the playback DOES look good
So, anyone who wants to work on this with me lemme know. Drop me email at cswan@connectria.com, or let's discuss it here...I'd like to figure out what exactly I did to get it working, lest it puke on itself again.
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