"Lyrical Korma" wrote in message
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I've not seen smooth DVD playback with any nvidia driver later than 61.77
on my 6800 ultra. Anyone else noticed this? It's slightly choppy, only
slightly, but noticeable enough to spoil the viewing experience. 3.2 GHz
Prescott, 1GB RAM, running Driver Cleaner 3 every time I change. Games
work fine with the later drivers though, but I'll be sticking with 61.77.
Could this be related to the buggy non-functional video processor not
providing motion compensation? Perhaps this is why the other drivers are
still BETA? Would be interesting to know whether it's just my system.

Can't say I have noticed a problem myself. With respect to your question
"Could this be related to the buggy non-functional video processor not
providing motion compensation?" I would say no, it couldn't. Firstly the
video processor does work - just not with HD WMV's, and secondly any
choppyness with HD WMV's is caused by the CPU usage being too high. (6800's
play HD DVD's perfectly smoothly if you can keep the CPU utlization away
from the 100% mark.) Yet with your DVD playback CPU usage is probably only
10% or less anyway.

Chip