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Help with 9600 AIW Pro..

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Hey guys,
I would like to thank everyone that replied in my refresh rate thread, but I have a new problem that I hope you guys can help me out with. I purchased the card last nite, and so far I can say I'm very happy. The 2D quality is much better than my TI 4200, and I scored almost 1500 higher in 3dMark2001 at it's stock speed. I have been playin with the TV features of the card, and so far I can say I'm a little disappointed. The audio playback was choppy, and the TV quality was a little fuzzy. I installed the newest NForce drivers this aftermoon, and the audio problem was fixed right away, however the ATI Media software keeps telling me that my processor doesn't support MMX, and that my harddrive and cd rom both do not have DMA enabled. I know for a fact that my XP supports MMX, and the HD and cd rom both have DMA enabled in device manager. I am going to be picking up a new DVD drive and I need the hardware Mpeg to work, however according to ATI it wont function on a drive that doesn't support DMA. The CPU usage hovers right around 44-46% with just the TV program and AIM running. Is this normal? If anyone has any insight, it would be appreciated. The system specs are:

Epox 8DRA+ MB
Athlon XP 2100 ( 200 x 10.5 @ 1.68V)
512 megs of DDR 2700 (running @ 166mhz)
IBM 40gig 7200rpm HD (yea i know it's old :frown:
ATI 9600 AIW Pro
48X CDRW
 
I have the same card and AthlonXP CPU at 1.2ghz. The utility says no MMX for me as well, I don't know why. It also says DMA may not be enabled for one of my drives even though it is. I have no idea why it does this.

The TV utility takes 0% to 2% CPU when I'm watching it.
 
I am going to be picking up a new DVD drive and I need the hardware Mpeg to work, however according to ATI it wont function on a drive that doesn't support DMA
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The video processing isn't directly related to the drive transfer rate, so it won't matter, its just a warning generated by the detection routine in the system diagnostic utility. The MMX detection is a knownbug that doesn't affect performance at all. You can see how much CPU the tv app uses individually by looking at the ATIMMC.exe process in Windows Task Manager. Maybe you have some driver conflics with the old NVidia graphic drivers? The picture quality is dependant on the signal you provide, but if you have a good signal strength, and the cable is good, your picture should be good as well.
 
Thanks for the replies guys. I checked the process in Task Manager and it seems to float between 32-36 in window'd mode and 38-42 when video desktop is enabled. That seems high, and is certainly higher than 1-2%😕 ?
 
CPU use is too high. Installing your chipset drivers should have happened prior to the graphics drivers also. Are you using the latest Catalyst drivers/MMC from ATI? Probably wouldn't hurt to uninstall the ATI drivers/software and start over with a fresh install. CPU use shouldn't be so high, it'll cause you trouble with the PVR functions.

also, you'd probably get better performance out of your rig by running your memory and CPU FSB sync'd on that NF2 platform.
 
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