I bet this Guy wished he'd stayed in bed this morning! Taken from Rage 3D's Forum.
Johnnyb, ATI's Cat 4.2 drivers are terrible (alright they just plain suck) with HDTV playback on either VMR7 or VMR9 using DXVA. I should know, I tried them myself on a 9600 pro. No problem on a GeForce FX 5700 though... As for the softer look on VMR9, again, the drivers and hardware are the ones doing the job here, not the decoder. Also if the PC is rebooting on a crash, it's likely the BSOD kernel fault in the display driver. XP should tell you this after rebooting. In any case, our software has very little control over the problems you've mentioned since they sound ATI driver releated.
This is the head developer of their Foreware MM products.
Rage 3D.
Johnnyb, ATI's Cat 4.2 drivers are terrible (alright they just plain suck) with HDTV playback on either VMR7 or VMR9 using DXVA. I should know, I tried them myself on a 9600 pro. No problem on a GeForce FX 5700 though... As for the softer look on VMR9, again, the drivers and hardware are the ones doing the job here, not the decoder. Also if the PC is rebooting on a crash, it's likely the BSOD kernel fault in the display driver. XP should tell you this after rebooting. In any case, our software has very little control over the problems you've mentioned since they sound ATI driver releated.
This is the head developer of their Foreware MM products.
Rage 3D.
