PowerDVD 3.0 + Win2k + G400 Max

[Mr. Cold]

Anyone else have problems with choppiness? (I dont get this in WinME- its perfectly smooth)

p.s. - running 5.10 beta drivers

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[Mr. Cold]

Actually I just upgraded to the 5.20 drivers and it still isnt as smooth as WinME...

Maybe its time to upgrade to a Pentium 4 processor? hmmmmmm

[Galvin]

I got the same problem, just use powerDVD 2.55, it's not the OS.

[Chucky Cheese]

i've got no problems...except that i get no video on the dual-head portion of my desktop. all drivers past 5.03 have had this problem on my system.

the readme talks about this so matrox is aware of it, thing is though you can't launce multiple instances of powerDVD...meadia player does the same thing.

...everthing else runs smooth

cc

[dZeus]

HUH? Microsoft stated that Windows is limitated to displaying overlay video only on the primary monitor!? how can you get overlay on the second monitor, even with driver 5.03 or earlier????

Maybe 5.03 did not support overlay video, so the video was not using overlay when playing back?

[inyafase]

Pentium 4? You must be joking.

But yeah, I had crazy ass choppiness when I installed PowerDVD 3.0, but not with the 2.5.5 version. I thought it was something else that I had done so I reinstalled Windows 2000, and like now there isn't any problem at all. I got that DVDmax thing to work too.

And which version of the 3.0 are you using? I tried two of them, and like the one with 6 channel (it'll say so in the setup screen) support is much better.

I am using :
PD 5.20.016
BIOS 1.9 - 19(TV NTSC)
DirectX 8.0

Some of my system specs:
Thunderbird 700Mhz
EP-7KXA
2 X 128 MB Micron RAM (2-2-2)
G400 MAX
Rainbow Runner G-series
Live Platinum
Asus 8x DVD-ROM drive

[Mr. Cold]

Galvin, the reason I would really like to use version 3.0 is for the Dolby Headphone support (which makes movies sound exceptional on regular headphones). Either way when I want to use my DTT2500 speaker set I can only do so under WinME since the SB Live! win2k drivers still dont have AC3 passthrough suppport. *sigh* Its no biggie, Ill just continue rebooting into WinME for movies until Creative Labs gets their act together.

inyafase, im using the 6-channel version..

thanks to all for the replies

[Chucky Cheese]

dZeus,

i wondered the same thing...however, on this system, with the 5.03 drivers i can run powerDVD on the dual-head portion of my desktop(..2560x1024). i am running the 5.2 drivers because i don't see it as a big problem as i don't do alot with DVDs on my system.

here is my hardware;

Motherboard: AMI MegaRUM II, dual 600Mhz Pentium III processors (installed), each with a 32/512 Cache configuration. 1 GB of PC100(CAS2), 8ns memory. Symbios Logic 53C896 U2W SCSI controllers. Intel 443GX Xeon chipset.

SCSI I/O:

Channel 1(LVD/U2): 4 Seagate LVD Cheetah 18LP, ST39103LW Ultra2 Wide SCSI-3 hard Drives, each with 1024k cache.

Channel 2(SE): JAZ 2GB internal, Plex-Writer 8/20, Pioneer DVD-303s ultra-scsi DVD reader and 2 UltraPlex-Wide 17/40 speed CD-ROM drives.

USB: USB Zip Drive, Epson Stylus Scan 2500, Intellimouse Explorer and 3com US Robotics 56K Voice Faxmodem Pro

Networking: The network adapter is a 3Com 3Cr990-TX-95 PCI 10/100 Mbps Ethernet controller.

Video: Matrox G400 Max with Dual Head. The primary display is a Panasonic PanaSync E21, .25-dot pitch, 20" viewable; the secondary display is a Samsung 17" Flat Panel Display(.264mm pitch) model 770TFT.

Multi-media: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live PCI Bus Mastering sound card. Speaker system is the Cambridge Works FPS2000 Digital speaker system.

cc

[DentyCracker]

Did y'all make sure that DMA was enabled on the DVD drive, I remember lots of choppiness with PowerDVD 3.0 when I was watching Romeo Must Die, until I enabled DMA on my Toshiba DVD (it's UDMA 33 capable, or so the BIOS claims)

[SteveC]

yes...

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Rob M.]

No choppiness here. Although it will no longer play at 1600x1200, and the ability to switch resolutions automatically is broken.

[Mr. Cold]

Funny, because every time I boot into w2k it pops up that PowerDVD dialogue for enabling DMA on dvd drives. But it always asks me to reboot, and when I reboot it pops up the box again and asks me to reboot, ad nauseum. Is this a known bug in PowerDVD 3?

Hrm, maybe I need to enable it through Device Manager??

[SteveC]

PowerDVD 3 + Win2k + G450 = jerky on my PC too (PIII-700 @ 700~910Mhz, 256Mb, BE6-II). But then again PowerDVD 2.55 was too. I used to use WinDVD2000 as that ran fine, but then I bought a 'proper' DVD player.

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Rob M.]

W2K doesn't force DMA mode. what mb do you have Mr. Cold? I found out that on my K7V with the last bios that Win2K wouldn't enable DMA mode on my cd drives no matter what. I updated the bios the other day and now I'm running fine in DMA mode.

[Dr. Matrox]

Where can I download the full Power Dvd 3 full finall?

And please don't give me the "warez is bad" shit.... (:

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