Because it's not a DX9 card. MS put into MCE designs for video support by using Video Mixing Renderer Filter 9 as it's base renderer. MCE is the ONLY windows OS to use VMR9 at it's heart, as all other OS do not use it; and even MCE only uses it inside the 10' interface.
But in the MCE interface, it relies on VMR9 to do all rendering work - and that requires DirectX9 compatibility. Links for more info: -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 11:42 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Interesting MCE bug On 3/25/06, Jin-Wei Tioh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wait a minute... you're running MCE 2005 withe GF4 Ti4400? > Thought that wasn't possible (seeing as MCE 2005 uses VMR 9). > > Wouldn't the minimum be a GeForce FX or 9x00 (x=5,6,7,8)? > It's a perfectly fine video card with onboard MPEG-2 processing. More than what SHOULD be needed for simply playing DVDs and video files. Why wouldn't it be supported? -- Brian
