I dont understand.Whats wrong with my 6800GT and video playback acceleration?

[CHfan4ever]

http://www.anandtech.com/video...oc.aspx?i=2238&p=2

and

http://techreport.com/ja.zz?comments=7535

cAn anyone explain me whats wrong with my card?

I am able to play video-mpeg etc with my card, whats wrong with it?

I just dont understand what is the problem listed.Too much japanese for me lol

 

[kylebisme]

It isn't your card doing the work but rather your CPU, they part of the videocard that was supposed to do the work is broken.

 

[CHfan4ever]

Ok...and what difference does it make that my cpu is playing my videos and not my card?Can it affect my games one day?

 

[kylebisme]

The difference is simply that your CPU has to share the full load of playing the video with whatever else it might be doing at the time instead of being able to offload some of the work to the videocard. As for games, some day we are bound to have games with super high-res FMV which would have benifited from the video acceleration if it worked; but that is bound to be long after the useful lifespan of the card anyway.

 

[Pete]

Can it affect my games one day?
Nope, it's not for games as much as just for video watching (and, as I thought I understood it, recording). The ruckus is b/c nV said the 6800 would be able to save the CPU this video decoding work, but it can't. The 6600, and presumably future cards, should deliver the promised Windows Media Video (WMV) acceleration. The 6800 currently just has significant/full MPEG2 (DVD) acceleration, something I believe all cards have had for quite some time (nV since GF4MX, ATi and S3 since before that).

Mainly, people wanted this to play hi-definition WMV files on slower processors, as currently HD WMV files require something like a 3GHz CPU for totally smooth playback. The huge thread here deals with playback of a 1080i HD WMV file. I guess "hi-def" MPEG2, as nV listed, may also become important in the future, but I really don't know of any examples of it. Hardware MPEG2 encode sounds interesting, though. It'd be cool to use your 6800 as a sort of TiVO, leaving your CPU free to do other things.