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For my wife's birthday, I decided to install a blu-ray player in our HTPC so that we could watch a newly purchased blu-ray. Well, it was ridiculously choppy, so I then installed a video card. That didn't help.
Now, with both the blu-ray player and the video card removed, all video is extremely choppy and out of sync with the audio. It doesn't matter if it's an HD video or a standard def video. MKV or AVI. They are all equally choppy. And these were videos that we watched before the install/uninstall and they worked just fine, no choppiness at all, perfect playback, just the night before. Here is my current setup -
E350IA-E45
4 GB DDR3 1333
Zacate-FT1 APU with built-in Radeon HD 6310
AMD Hudson M1
1TB WD10EARS HDD
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
The first video card that I installed was a GeForce 8600 GT that I have laying around. That was choppy, so I figured it was underpowered. Then I went and bought a Radeon 6450. That was also choppy, though at this point, I guess the problem could have started with the install of the GeForce, I really don't know.
The Blu-Ray was an external USB ASUS drive.
I have uninstalled all of the software from the Blu-Ray drive and the Nvidia card. I have uninstalled the Radeon drivers using this - http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/disp...load.html, and reinstalled the version of drivers that worked before. I also tried updating to the newest drivers.
I uninstalled and reinstalled CCCP, both the version that was working previously and the newest version. I also tried running things without CCCP, and it changed nothing.
I also reset the BIOS to its optimized defaults.
I even uninstalled and reinstalled the audio drivers.
Browsing and boot speeds are not affected.
I have confirmed that the problem exists not just in XBMC, but also in WMPC. I only came to you guys because it's issues with which you might have experience, and I figured you were my best bet for a solution. I apologize if I posted this in the wrong area.
I did notice that when I disabled hardware acceleration within XBMC, the choppiness and slowness was similar, just far more exaggerated. Is it possible that the OS is somehow trying to use the wrong type of acceleration? If so, how would I fix that?
Edit for additional troubleshooting - I also just ran the driver uninstaller on the Nvidia drivers in safe mode. It reports that they were successfully deleted and it no longer detects them.
It's not overheating, I checked.
DXDIAG detects the card correctly and reports that hardware acceleration is enabled.
I cannot change the hardware acceleration settings under "Display" and "Advanced". I assume this is because CCC takes over those duties.
Edit Again - Also tried disabling ITC processing, enforce smooth playback, and every option under "Quality" in CCC. No bueno.
Think that searching for every tag from Nvidia and the BD software and deleting them from the registry might help? Grasping at straws, I know, but I'm down to reformatting otherwise. I already went through MSCONFIG and made sure there was nothing loading at startup that didn't belong. Undecided
Now, with both the blu-ray player and the video card removed, all video is extremely choppy and out of sync with the audio. It doesn't matter if it's an HD video or a standard def video. MKV or AVI. They are all equally choppy. And these were videos that we watched before the install/uninstall and they worked just fine, no choppiness at all, perfect playback, just the night before. Here is my current setup -
E350IA-E45
4 GB DDR3 1333
Zacate-FT1 APU with built-in Radeon HD 6310
AMD Hudson M1
1TB WD10EARS HDD
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
The first video card that I installed was a GeForce 8600 GT that I have laying around. That was choppy, so I figured it was underpowered. Then I went and bought a Radeon 6450. That was also choppy, though at this point, I guess the problem could have started with the install of the GeForce, I really don't know.
The Blu-Ray was an external USB ASUS drive.
I have uninstalled all of the software from the Blu-Ray drive and the Nvidia card. I have uninstalled the Radeon drivers using this - http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/disp...load.html, and reinstalled the version of drivers that worked before. I also tried updating to the newest drivers.
I uninstalled and reinstalled CCCP, both the version that was working previously and the newest version. I also tried running things without CCCP, and it changed nothing.
I also reset the BIOS to its optimized defaults.
I even uninstalled and reinstalled the audio drivers.
Browsing and boot speeds are not affected.
I have confirmed that the problem exists not just in XBMC, but also in WMPC. I only came to you guys because it's issues with which you might have experience, and I figured you were my best bet for a solution. I apologize if I posted this in the wrong area.
I did notice that when I disabled hardware acceleration within XBMC, the choppiness and slowness was similar, just far more exaggerated. Is it possible that the OS is somehow trying to use the wrong type of acceleration? If so, how would I fix that?
Edit for additional troubleshooting - I also just ran the driver uninstaller on the Nvidia drivers in safe mode. It reports that they were successfully deleted and it no longer detects them.
It's not overheating, I checked.
DXDIAG detects the card correctly and reports that hardware acceleration is enabled.
I cannot change the hardware acceleration settings under "Display" and "Advanced". I assume this is because CCC takes over those duties.
Edit Again - Also tried disabling ITC processing, enforce smooth playback, and every option under "Quality" in CCC. No bueno.
Think that searching for every tag from Nvidia and the BD software and deleting them from the registry might help? Grasping at straws, I know, but I'm down to reformatting otherwise. I already went through MSCONFIG and made sure there was nothing loading at startup that didn't belong. Undecided
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