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VLC Hardware acceleration issues with a 6950

Chaoticlusts

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Just wondering if anyone else had encountered this, bought my 6950 yesterday (sooooo happy with it :)) but found that VLC started having huge issues like it would show static images when you watched video and just skip ahead like 10 seconds at a time (so 0.1fps essentially :p) turned hardware acceleration off and obviously no problems anymore but just wondering if anyone else had to do this?
 

badb0y

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I don't have this issue I am using the hotfix drivers

Also did you unlock yours to 6970 :D .
 

Chaoticlusts

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I don't have this issue I am using the hotfix drivers

Also did you unlock yours to 6970 :D .


hmm I'm just using standard drivers so could try that...that being said hardware acceleration before seemed to do 'nothing' didn't take any load off the cpu :'(

haven't unlocked it yet but definitely plan too, would have done it straight away but i'm between houses and where my computer is setup is a pain in the arse to get too so it was a bit epic dragging the thing out (weighs about 30kg's....soooo changing to a lighter system when I complete my upgrade :p)so at the end I just wanted to sit down and game and not ah heck around with flashing the bios :p but yeah the reason I bought the card early is because I wanted to get one before they locked the damn things :p
 

Barfo

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I had the same problem with my 6850, just disabled it since evenmy lowly CPU is enough to decode video. *shrug*
 

Chaoticlusts

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I had the same problem with my 6850, just disabled it since evenmy lowly CPU is enough to decode video. *shrug*


yeah but sadly mine isn't powerful enough to decode HD and play games at the same time without issues (well depending on the file and the game)....but when I finally upgrade to sandy that'll be fixed :p