I've read that there are significant differences in how Win7 handles
video over Vista. At least on the 2D desktop.
Brian Weeden wrote:
I've got Windows 7 on my laptop and I love it. The problem is that this
video bug with XBMC is with Vista. And I'm pretty sure that Windows 7 is
going to have the same problems since it is basically Vista polished up.
The bug is really annoying. Any 24 fps HD files have this jerky playback
that's just noticeable enough to be annoying. There's a smoothvideo feature
that was incorporated into the latest release of XBMC but for some reason
Vista doesn't like it.
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Brian Weeden
Technical Advisor
Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org>
+1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
+1 (202) 683-8534 US
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Stan Zaske <[email protected]> wrote:
Maybe a dumb question, but have you tried Windows 7? Seems to work pretty
good for me after I got rid of the crappy Microsoft WHQL Radeon drivers and
went with Catalyst 9.5.
Brian Weeden wrote:
Ugh. Fraking Microsoft.
Guess I'll have to go with XP64 as the Vista video bug was the whole
reason
I downgraded in the first place.
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Brian Weeden
Technical Advisor
Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org>
+1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
+1 (202) 683-8534 US
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Greg Sevart <[email protected]> wrote:
32-bit XP doesn't support GPT disks, which is required for >2TB volume
support. You'll have to use Vista (x86 or x64) or XP x64, or break the
array
into <2TB virtual disks (in Areca terminology, make several <2TB volume
sets
residing on the same RAID set).
Greg
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware-
[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 5:28 PM
To: hwg
Subject: [H] Windows XP and 4TB partition
I just reformatted my HTPC from Vista back to XPSP3 due to an issue
with
24fps playback in XBMC. The problem is XP isn't recognizing my
NTFS-formatted 4 TB RAID array. It was working just fine under Vista
32-bit
and the RAID management software shows that it is just fine. Drivers
for
the RAID card (Areca 1220) are properly installed and working.
I know there are issues with XP 32-bit and booting from drives larger
than
2TB but I didn't think that also applied to non-boot arrays (my boot
drive
is a 80 GB SATA).
Thoughts?
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Brian Weeden
Technical Advisor
Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org>
+1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
+1 (202) 683-8534 US
