Well maybe its worth a shot then.

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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 8:34 PM, Stan Zaske <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> ---------------------------
>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------
>>>> 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?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------------------------
>>>>>> Brian Weeden
>>>>>> Technical Advisor
>>>>>> Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org>
>>>>>> +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
>>>>>> +1 (202) 683-8534 US
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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