Well, I thought the requirements were a helluva lot higher! I've got a 6600gt as well btw and I'm running it perfectly with no slowdown since I updated media player classic: home cinema mod. This is only in regards to a few trailers... and other downloaded content. Maybe if I had a blu ray player it would be slower read from the disc..
Still I'm rather happy, vlc couldn't cope well with it at all.
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Cool, I'll have to tell my brother to try Media Player classic cause at the moment his overclocked 2.4Ghz 3000+ struggles playing 1080p video in VLC (720p videos run fine).
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I think new drivers let your video card handle some of the load of the video instead of just letting the CPU take it hard.
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I think new drivers let your video card handle some of the load of the video instead of just letting the CPU take it hard.
Yeah, only problem is he has a X1800XT 512MB which is now "legacy" according to AMD/ATI and the latest driver supported for it is 9.3. Funny thing is, this "legacy" videocard still plays nearly all the latest games at near max settings.
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The performance will mainly depend on the codec used. While you will be able to run MPEG2 1080p content just fine, with those CPUs, you can forget about AVC/H.264 , the standard used for blu-rays. DivX/Xvid might as well be problematic at these resolutions.
Also, in order to decode standard blu-ray discs, you will need any graphics card with HDCP output capacity, which more or less started with the GF7600 GTS. I don't know the series for ATI/AMD.
well i didnt know how to check the codec on media player classic. but gspot and vlc recognised it as avc/h2.64! 1920x1080! I feel like i'm cheating, I won't have to upgrade my comp till diablo 3 comes out now
This was with the home cinema version btw, dunno if plain classic wil handle it.
Oh ok didn't see that bit, as I'm clearly not a pirate, I guess I will need a slight upgrade for the discs. I kid not on the results though, vlc was screwy, but the cpu never hit 100% acording to task manager. Classic had it always at 100%, but with absolutely no slowdown in the application which I find quite bizzare as I'm used to my pc being vey sluggish at anything when its maxed out. Also I've never overcloked in my life.
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