Re: Hardware acceleration freezes video and Windows

[Zarax]

Did you try updating your video card drivers?

"Tarjei" <Tar...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:68DBD8E5-D779-4731...@microsoft.com...
> If I attempt to watch video with hardware acceleration set any higher than
> the second lowest setting ("Disable all but basic accelerations. Use this
> to
> correct more severe problems"), Windows XP will freeze completely sooner
> or
> later. In other words, I can possibly watch video (in Media Player 9) for
> a
> while, but at some point Windows will freeze, and I have to use the reset
> button to restart the computer. I suspect the problem might be related to
> DirectDraw and Direct3D, since these are the additional settings disabled
> by
> setting hardware acceleration to the second lowest setting.
> The Direct X diagnostic tool informs me that "Direct3D funtionality not
> available". Could this be related to the problem?
> My display adapter is NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX/MX 400.
>
> I need hardware acceleration at the maximum setting, any ideas?
>
>
> --
> Tarjei Olsen

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[Tarjei]

Yes, I updated the drivers for NVIDIA GeForce2 yesterday. It didn't make any
difference. However, what I just noticed is that with hardware acceleration
on the third lowest setting ("Disable all DirectDraw and Direct3D
accelerations, as well as cursor and advanced drawing acceleration. etc"),
not the second, most videos will work and WIndows will only freeze
sporadically (or if I go into full-screen mode), but some videos that seem to
have better quality make Windows freeze immediately. I think they may use
another codec; in fact Media Player tells me that these need another codec,
however on the third lowest hardware acceleration setting (or higher) it
doesn't ask for another codec (but crashes instead).

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Tarjei Olsen