Win7 Media Center and HD 5770

[Draket47]

Hi, I have an ATI HD 5770 and just bought a 40 inch Toshiba LCD. I had hoped that I would be able to run media center full screen on the Toshiba while playing a game (for instance WoW) on my monitor. Well it works but neither the video in media center nor WoW is playable.

Should I grab another 5770 for CF because I'm most likely having a performance issue? Or is it because both media center and WoW are trying to use the same resources and no amount of performance increase from added hardware will fix it?

Would appreciate any thoughts you all might have. I'm running a i5-750 at stock speeds with 8gb of ram and Win7 x64 Home Premium.

 

[mnewsham]

Hi, I have an ATI HD 5770 and just bought a 40 inch Toshiba LCD. I had hoped that I would be able to run media center full screen on the Toshiba while playing a game (for instance WoW) on my monitor. Well it works but neither the video in media center nor WoW is playable.

Should I grab another 5770 for CF because I'm most likely having a performance issue? Or is it because both media center and WoW are trying to use the same resources and no amount of performance increase from added hardware will fix it?

Would appreciate any thoughts you all might have. I'm running a i5-750 at stock speeds with 8gb of ram and Win7 x64 Home Premium.

I would try and sell the 5770 for 75 bucks and then drop some cash for a 6950 2gb the extra vRAM will help when trying to run more then one display.

 

[Jovec]

I would try and sell the 5770 for 75 bucks and then drop some cash for a 6950 2gb the extra vRAM will help when trying to run more then one display.

This won't help as the UVD clocks are being used. Happens on a 6950 too.

 

[mnewsham]

This won't help as the UVD clocks are being used. Happens on a 6950 too.

That's odd on my 5870m i can play a 720p movie while playing COD MW2 without more then 5-10fps drop

 

[Jovec]

That's odd on my 5870m i can play a 720p movie while playing COD MW2 without more then 5-10fps drop

Edit: what are you watching that 720p video with? A software player?

I've been bitching about it for a while now. It didn't used to be this way, but I've noticed it since at least Cat 10.11. I routinely played WoW while watching TV in 7MC on a 5770 just fine. My 5850 and 6950 both do this too. Use a program with a GPU clock graph and you can see it. Video and Wow will have UVD clocks, but as soon as you close the video you'll get 3D clocks.

 

[blanketyblank]

so cheapest solution is to buy a media box for like $50. Something like a WD, Seagate, or Patriot works pretty well for media though I don't think I've seen anything that does youtube/hulu well besides a pc.

 

[Jovec]

so cheapest solution is to buy a media box for like $50. Something like a WD, Seagate, or Patriot works pretty well for media though I don't think I've seen anything that does youtube/hulu well besides a pc.

Could go with a cheap ATI discrete card to drive the second monitor, or possibly even the IGP.