Geforce 5200 or Radeon 9250 (NOT 9200! 9250) both cards can be found sub $40.
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From: "Brian Weeden" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:26:17 -0600
To: "The Hardware List" hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Interesting MCE bug
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> On 3/25/06, Jin-Wei Tioh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot
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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
Because the GF4 is a DirectX 8 part, and I guess MCE requires the fully
programmable pixel pipelines DX9 provides.
Greg
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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 proc
At 08:06 PM 3/25/2006, you wrote:
Sometimes when I go to load a video file in MCE it will freeze. When
I remote log in to see what's going on using VNC is when its gets
really intersting.
---SNIP---
I am using an nVidia GeForce ti4400 video card with nVidia 81.98
Forceware drivers. I have MCE
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Subject: [H] Interesting MCE bug
> Sometimes when I go to load a video file in MCE it will freeze. When
> I remote log in to see what's going on using VNC is when its gets
> really intersting.
>
> I can CTL-ALT-DEL and kill the MCE shell giving the
It's your video / capture drivers and probably has something to do with
video overlay. This sort of thing happens all the time with ATI AIW etc. It
is a bitch to solve with ATI. I make my builds with sequential images, and
then backup the OS every two weeks, just so I can go back to a working
v
Sometimes when I go to load a video file in MCE it will freeze. When
I remote log in to see what's going on using VNC is when its gets
really intersting.
I can CTL-ALT-DEL and kill the MCE shell giving the remote desktop the
standard windows desktop. But onscreen the TV is still showing the
froz
