My new 5920G is bumming me out :(

for owners of the 5920G with the HD-DVD Rom drive.

Is it working for you?

The Acer Play software keeps telling me it needs to check for critical component updates. I say ok. Brings up an Explorer browser instance to Cyberlink which then Cyberlink tells me my software to play HD-DVDs is already up to date.

It's an endless loop and the Acer play refuses to play any HD-DVD. It insists it needs an update. Cyberlink disagrees.

Regular DVD play fine.

I've tried restoring but the Acer Play is still nagging me and won't play.

What the hell is going on here

 

Hi

Seeing as your machine is very new on the market you won't find too many answers here.

I suggest contacting Acer support and explaining the problem to them. Sounds like it may just be a setting somewhere?

 

Update: Did a restore to default and the software HD-DVD player is now working.

Analysis: The only thing I had done was MS Vista Updates. So if that borked the player I was in no mood to find out last night.

Calling out to all new owners of the 5920G: have you updated your 5920G with lastest Vista patches? If yes then is your HD-DVD software player functional?

 

I know my laptop is a new model but I have to ask another question.

Doom3 has started to crash on me at the Alpha 4 Labs levels. I have the lastest Doom3 patch. I have tried to underclock the 8600GT. I have reduced the in game eye-candy and resolution settings. Still crashes. Acer do not have a newer VGA driver available and I have not been successful in installing Nvidia drivers because the installers refuse to install on this mobile GPU.

I really don't know what esle to do. Do you peeps know if there is a Nvidia patcher to install desktop drivers on a notebook?

 

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/drivers/vista

 

I'm using 158.45 Moded Driver From Laptopvideo2go.com

 

I'm about 30 minutes into "Letters from Iwo Jima" .. so far performs great and looks great..

I even minimized and started running other stuff in the back ground .. no issues so far.. stock drivers..

 

Ok .. well I upgraded my video drivers from:

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/drivers/vista

and now my HD-DVD playback no worky.. will try a different player and resort back to stock drivers to see what works..

 

I have the stock drivers, and whilst they work well with most newer games, older games such as far cry, have a lot of texture corruption, and cannot be played.

Do I need to install an earlier version of directX? Or upgrade the graphics drivers?

 

As I was unsuccessful at installing these Thanks to you I won't try anymore.
I don't want to lose the HD-DVD playback again. The oem drivers still give me the dreaded Crash in Doom3 so I stopped playing until Acer updates it's drivers.

Were you able to restore the orignal drivers and get back your HD-DVD playback?