The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
← Previous page

    M11x R1: Corrupted flash video on Intel graphics w/HW acceleration. Just me?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by CZroe, Nov 5, 2010.

  1. mephiska

    mephiska Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    19
    Messages:
    77
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    This happens under the following conditions on an m11x R1

    Intel Graphics
    Battery or AC Power
    Flash 10.1 or higher with Hardware Acceleration Enabled
    CPU Overclock enabled in BIOS

    You will get corrupted video in Flash. This is somehow related to the CPU Overclock, because disabling overclock makes flash run fine, as does turning off Hardware Acceleration in Flash (right click flash video, settings, uncheck HWA)

    The workaround is to disable overclock, disable HWA, or switch to Nvidia graphics. Realistically you should either switch to Nvidia or disable the HWA since leaving it enabled on the Intel doesn't lower CPU usage at all anyway. I imagine because these Intel drivers aren't compatible with the HWA.

    I'm disappointed to see that the issue is still present with Intel 2281 drivers. Maybe they haven't figured out the fix and that's why they haven't bothered updating the intel drivers with the 263.83 release.
     
    mephiska, Jun 2, 2011
    #51
  2. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

    Reputations:
    3,905
    Messages:
    6,116
    Likes Received:
    89
    Trophy Points:
    216
    Wait a tick! What's this 263.83 driver release that you speak of?
     
    namaiki, Jun 2, 2011
    #52
  3. mephiska

    mephiska Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    19
    Messages:
    77
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Sorry, 263.08, the vid drivers they posted back in March.
     
    mephiska, Jun 2, 2011
    #53
  4. CZroe

    CZroe Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    90
    Messages:
    364
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I'm very disappointed that the issue remains and surprised to find my thread still active when it has been months since I have been here. For what it's worth, I seem to recall that having HW acceleration enabled with certain downloaded videos played in a player that support HW acceleration on Intel graphics will trigger the exact same thing, so it's not limited to Flash 10.1+ and Flash Player settings.
     
    CZroe, Jun 2, 2011
    #54
  5. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

    Reputations:
    3,905
    Messages:
    6,116
    Likes Received:
    89
    Trophy Points:
    216
    Which drivers are others running?
    rich Internet applications | Adobe Flash Player system requirements
     
    namaiki, Jun 2, 2011
    #55
  6. AlienTroll

    AlienTroll Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    319
    Messages:
    598
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Yeah I tried that, I'm using the newest version and I just turned off Youtube's horrible HTML5 video player. Takes too long to start up/load at the start of the video, however it loads 1080p or Original quality videos SUPER DUPER ULTRA SUPREME quick. But still not worth it.
     
    AlienTroll, Jun 3, 2011
    #56
  7. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

    Reputations:
    3,905
    Messages:
    6,116
    Likes Received:
    89
    Trophy Points:
    216
    Did it report software or hardware video decoding?
    (Try right-click a YouTube video and click 'Show video info' to check what kind of video rendering is being used.)
     
    namaiki, Jun 3, 2011
    #57
← Previous page