Help with upgrade on AIW 9700 Pro please...

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati (More info?)

I have an AIW 9700 Pro that I bought awhile back and I wanted to
upgrade to the latest drivers & MMC, but the disk got broken that came
with it. I know what you are thinking, that I'm trying to find the
8.1 disk. No, not that.

I understand from the many posts I've read that you do not need the
MMC 8.1 CD if you want to install another DVD software decoder. I
have PowerDVD, but the last time I tried to update the driver suite,
skipping the DVD player, PowerDVD would only skip badly and not play
very well at all. I have a P4-1.8. Is the ATI DVD codecs necessary
in order to play DVD's in hardware mode in other apps? Should I have
installed PowerDVD again after the upgrade? Do I need a later version
of PowerDVD?

I have never used the DVD player in ATI, always preferring the
PowerDVD, that works quite well with my Dolby Digital system, so I
don't care if I have the ATI DVD player, but if I can't get a 3rd
party DVD player to work, I guess I'll have to go locate the disk to
buy somewhere. I kinda hate paying $25 for something I already had to
get something that I already use.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati (More info?)

On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 22:23:52 -0400, ShadowWind <shadowwind@gate.net>
wrote:

>I have an AIW 9700 Pro that I bought awhile back and I wanted to
>upgrade to the latest drivers & MMC, but the disk got broken that came
>with it. I know what you are thinking, that I'm trying to find the
>8.1 disk. No, not that.
>
>I understand from the many posts I've read that you do not need the
>MMC 8.1 CD if you want to install another DVD software decoder. I
>have PowerDVD, but the last time I tried to update the driver suite,
>skipping the DVD player, PowerDVD would only skip badly and not play
>very well at all. I have a P4-1.8. Is the ATI DVD codecs necessary
>in order to play DVD's in hardware mode in other apps? Should I have
>installed PowerDVD again after the upgrade? Do I need a later version
>of PowerDVD?
>
>I have never used the DVD player in ATI, always preferring the
>PowerDVD, that works quite well with my Dolby Digital system, so I
>don't care if I have the ATI DVD player, but if I can't get a 3rd
>party DVD player to work, I guess I'll have to go locate the disk to
>buy somewhere. I kinda hate paying $25 for something I already had to
>get something that I already use.
>
>Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
There's no basic reason why Power DVD shouldn't work as a standalone
with your card, SW; it should come with all the required codecs.

It might be a good idea to uninstall the DVD player before upgrading
your display driver, though, then reinstalling it. Did PowerDVD work
Ok before you did that?

I found that the version of PowerDVD 4.0 (it doesn't say, but that's
what it is) that came with an ASUS 9600XT I had always played a little
jerkily; it improved a lot when I dled and installed the free v4
upgrade from PowerDVD's site. Which version of PowerDVD do you have,
and was it included with something else or a purchased version?

patrickp

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati (More info?)

On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:56:59 +0100, patrickp
<patrickp@acoustibop5.co.uk - take 5 to email me> wrote:

>On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 22:23:52 -0400, ShadowWind <shadowwind@gate.net>
>wrote:
>
>>I have an AIW 9700 Pro that I bought awhile back and I wanted to
>>upgrade to the latest drivers & MMC, but the disk got broken that came
>>with it. I know what you are thinking, that I'm trying to find the
>>8.1 disk. No, not that.
>>
>>I understand from the many posts I've read that you do not need the
>>MMC 8.1 CD if you want to install another DVD software decoder. I
>>have PowerDVD, but the last time I tried to update the driver suite,
>>skipping the DVD player, PowerDVD would only skip badly and not play
>>very well at all. I have a P4-1.8. Is the ATI DVD codecs necessary
>>in order to play DVD's in hardware mode in other apps? Should I have
>>installed PowerDVD again after the upgrade? Do I need a later version
>>of PowerDVD?
>>
>>I have never used the DVD player in ATI, always preferring the
>>PowerDVD, that works quite well with my Dolby Digital system, so I
>>don't care if I have the ATI DVD player, but if I can't get a 3rd
>>party DVD player to work, I guess I'll have to go locate the disk to
>>buy somewhere. I kinda hate paying $25 for something I already had to
>>get something that I already use.
>>
>>Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>There's no basic reason why Power DVD shouldn't work as a standalone
>with your card, SW; it should come with all the required codecs.
>
>It might be a good idea to uninstall the DVD player before upgrading
>your display driver, though, then reinstalling it. Did PowerDVD work
>Ok before you did that?
>
>I found that the version of PowerDVD 4.0 (it doesn't say, but that's
>what it is) that came with an ASUS 9600XT I had always played a little
>jerkily; it improved a lot when I dled and installed the free v4
>upgrade from PowerDVD's site. Which version of PowerDVD do you have,
>and was it included with something else or a purchased version?
>
>patrickp

I have 4.0 and I will check on the update. I never even thought to do
so because it worked fine with the ATI card on mine. You are probably
right though, I should have uninstalled it and then reinstalled after
the update. Probably got confused. Will try the update again (after
backing up the drive) and see if I can get it to work.

Thanks for your reply...