ATi Radeon Owners: I need some help

[SuperGroove]

Anyone else have DVD Problems?

I am running the latest supported drivers from ATi, for my ATi Radeon 64MB VIVO. My system specs:

AMD 850
MSI K7PRO (amd chipset)
192MB RAM
SB LIVE VALUE
Seagate ST31022A DMA Enabled
Creative Labs PC-DVD 2240E 2x/24x DMA Enabled
Phillips CD-RW slaved to DVD drive DMA Enabled

I am using the latest ATi provided DVD player as well and I'm just going insane as to why my DVD playback stutters. After enabling Sync Data Transfer, the dvd doesn't stutter anymore...but freezes after 5 minutes.

This never happened when I had a V5 5500, or my PII 400 w/ 8MB ATI Rage PRO


Any advice would be appreciated. Help!

 

[arod]

try winDVD or powerDVD and see if they do it too.

 

[GremlinHater]

Strange, I haven't updated any drivers in my system spec yet and I have had no problems with DVD playback in PowerDVD or ATI DVD Player, except for sound not coming out of my rear speakers which is another issue. Perhaps an update on your motherboard? or Firmware for your DVD?

 

[Duvie]

Now since you say you have amd chipset does that mean amd chips for both the northbridge and southbridge? Otherwise you still use 4 in 1's minus the agp driver and use the amd one from their site, right?

I had a slight (very slight, like occur every few seconds like it was dropping a frame or something) stutter when I first installed it but was cured by using new drivers (other then the ones that came on the disc) in a clean win98 install.

I assume you have installed direct x 8.0? When did you install the sblive drivers in relationship to the direct x 8.0 program?

I did have a major stutter problem when I tried to run dvd software instead of decoder card with my amd k6-2 400. Had no problems with software decoding on 750 tbird however.

I have used cinemaster player, and powerdvd...can't get ati 4.1 player to work (probably have to do the trick to get around mmc7.1 error.)

sidenote: I will be getting windvd which I hear will use the ati hardware dvd support, which powerdvd will not use. I have been less then impressed with ATI since their player (older version) sucks and I can't use the hardware decoder on all things. I think I am going to also upgrade to msi 822 gf2 pro 64mb which comes with the windvd 2000. ATI product and support needs some work for me to recommend it to others.

 

[SuperGroove]

<< Now since you say you have amd chipset does that mean amd chips for both the northbridge and southbridge? Otherwise you still use 4 in 1's minus the agp driver and use the amd one from their site, right?

I had a slight (very slight, like occur every few seconds like it was dropping a frame or something) stutter when I first installed it but was cured by using new drivers (other then the ones that came on the disc) in a clean win98 install.

I assume you have installed direct x 8.0? When did you install the sblive drivers in relationship to the direct x 8.0 program?

I did have a major stutter problem when I tried to run dvd software instead of decoder card with my amd k6-2 400. Had no problems with software decoding on 750 tbird however.

I have used cinemaster player, and powerdvd...can't get ati 4.1 player to work (probably have to do the trick to get around mmc7.1 error.)

sidenote: I will be getting windvd which I hear will use the ati hardware dvd support, which powerdvd will not use. I have been less then impressed with ATI since their player (older version) sucks and I can't use the hardware decoder on all things. I think I am going to also upgrade to msi 822 gf2 pro 64mb which comes with the windvd 2000. ATI product and support needs some work for me to recommend it to others. >>



The MSI K7PRO has both a AMD produced North and Southbridge chips.

I just updated my BIOS to 1.8...but can't find anything for my DVD drive...I'll look some more