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    Disable Hardware Acceleration on Intel X3100

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by mikald, Apr 5, 2008.

  1. mikald

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    Hey!

    As I was told that this might be the source for my recent problems I am trying to disable hardware acceleration.

    How can I do that?

    Thank you!
     
    mikald, Apr 5, 2008
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  2. Budding

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    Disabling hardware acceleration altogether would be a very bad idea. It will slow your computer down to a crawl.

    What is this 'recent problems' you're talking about anyway?
     
    Budding, Apr 5, 2008
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    Oemenia Notebook Evangelist

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    I think hes talking about watching videos through a browser. Loads of problems in FF
     
    Oemenia, Apr 5, 2008
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  4. mikald

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    I own a Sony VAIO CR21s.

    Thing is, everything works fine but video playback. XViD & DivX.

    I tested on both Vista ultimate with all the updates and the latest drivers and XP Sp2 with everything.

    The image apears blocky. I tested both with video codecs and without. With BSPlayer & VLC. Some videos look worse than others.

    Is there any way to work with the video settings in BIOS like on anormal PC?

    I don`t know what else to do. Any help would be highly appreciated. I am getting desperate.

    Thank you!
     
    mikald, Apr 5, 2008
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    Blocky as in frames mixing together? Or maybe the quality of the videos are too low?

    How does it look on Media Player Classic: http://www.cccp-project.net/ ?
     
    Budding, Apr 5, 2008
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  6. mikald

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    The quality of those videos is excellent. I tested them on my desktop and they look like crystal clear.

    Blocky as the whole image is composed by small squares.

    Something like this :

    [​IMG]

    but not as clear.

    They look the same on Media Player Classic, VLC, BSplayer. Funny thing is, I tested a small HD 720p file on it. That one worked like magic on the same settings. I don`t understand.
     
    mikald, Apr 5, 2008
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  7. dvdivx

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    I don't know what it has to do with gaming but you could try uninstalling any codecs and get new ones.
    http://www.free-codecs.com
    Try either XP codec pack or K-Lite full.
     
    dvdivx, Apr 5, 2008
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  8. mikald

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    I managed to fix the issue on DVD playback by dissabling the Hardware Acceleration setting in PowerDVD.

    Its not a matter of codecs. I tryied with codecs intalled, and without codecs installed on a fresh windows install. Same thing. :(
     
    mikald, Apr 5, 2008
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  9. Ayle

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    What about updating the drivers?
     
    Ayle, Apr 5, 2008
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  10. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Sounds like you need to turn video overlay on.

    Check if you can print screen a playing video and paste it into paint and then close the video and see if it's still in paint.

    For VLC player try something like using opengl or any of the directx video settings.

    The video becomes blocky when the video is resized from its actual resolution and overlay is not there to handle it
     
    namaiki, Apr 6, 2008
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  11. mikald

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    brainstew, video overlay was turned on in VLC.

    I tryied using OPENGl and DirectX outputs, but its the same.

    ...
     
    mikald, Apr 6, 2008
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