Serious framerate issues on Blu-Ray PC - Blu-ray Forum

Anbesol · 01-01-2009, 04:41 AM

I'm getting terrible framerates on my blu-ray PC. The TV is the Toshiba Regza 1080p. The CPU is an Athlon X2 4600+ AM2, 2 GB memory, and the Radeon X1250, HDCP yes. The weak video card has me suspect it is the cause, but I don't understand why they would manufacture an HDCP compliant card if it wasn't capable of displaying bluray at a decent framerate. Im using Corel WinDVD, is this a software issue, or a video card issue, or something else entirely?

What about an upgrade to the Radeon 4550? Good card for blu ray playback?

Thanks for the help!

Roger Zoul · 01-01-2009, 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Anbesol

I'm getting terrible framerates on my blu-ray PC. The TV is the Toshiba Regza 1080p. The CPU is an Athlon X2 4600+ AM2, 2 GB memory, and the Radeon X1250, HDCP yes. The weak video card has me suspect it is the cause, but I don't understand why they would manufacture an HDCP compliant card if it wasn't capable of displaying bluray at a decent framerate. Im using Corel WinDVD, is this a software issue, or a video card issue, or something else entirely?

What about an upgrade to the Radeon 4550? Good card for blu ray playback?

Thanks for the help!

You haven't mentioned anything about updating any drivers (video card for one) or making sure you have all patches for your software (winDVD & Blu-ray drive firmware). I would suggest you not make any hardware changes until you rule out the software.

oqnet · 02-14-2009, 01:26 AM

Don't buy any new hardware. I have the exact same setup and I don't have any problems with dropped frames on the computer at all when playing HD content. I put in a HD3650 for awhile to play some video games that needed a bit more power but I didn't notice any difference in playback.

I would guess that there could be something that might be interfering with your playback. At one point I was very frustrated because I kept installing ultravnc and then getting tearing and bad framerate on the screen. It turned out to be the video hook driver ultravnc installed on the machine. I have also had bad framerate when I have a hug of an application running or something thats doing alot of processing(I mean it has to be hogging more than what your computer needs to do the decoding on the processors end if you run powerdvd it will put more work on the video card so it should be as much of a problem). But typically the video card can handle it. Just remember if you get the minimum of ram to do work you should also consider that onboard video takes away from that memory. That would be the biggest reason to get a new card so it's not eating your RAM, or if you wanted to play some game that this card can't quite handle.

hamisht · 02-15-2009, 02:42 AM

Make sure something isnt draining your CPU, go CTRL+ALT+DEL and check the Performance and processes for anything odd. Virus scanner in progress? something like that.

01-01-2009, 04:41 AM	#1
Anbesol New Member Member since:Jan 2009	Serious framerate issues on Blu-Ray PC I'm getting terrible framerates on my blu-ray PC. The TV is the Toshiba Regza 1080p. The CPU is an Athlon X2 4600+ AM2, 2 GB memory, and the Radeon X1250, HDCP yes. The weak video card has me suspect it is the cause, but I don't understand why they would manufacture an HDCP compliant card if it wasn't capable of displaying bluray at a decent framerate. Im using Corel WinDVD, is this a software issue, or a video card issue, or something else entirely? What about an upgrade to the Radeon 4550? Good card for blu ray playback? Thanks for the help!

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02-14-2009, 01:26 AM	#3
oqnet New Member Member since:Feb 2009	Don't buy any new hardware. I have the exact same setup and I don't have any problems with dropped frames on the computer at all when playing HD content. I put in a HD3650 for awhile to play some video games that needed a bit more power but I didn't notice any difference in playback. I would guess that there could be something that might be interfering with your playback. At one point I was very frustrated because I kept installing ultravnc and then getting tearing and bad framerate on the screen. It turned out to be the video hook driver ultravnc installed on the machine. I have also had bad framerate when I have a hug of an application running or something thats doing alot of processing(I mean it has to be hogging more than what your computer needs to do the decoding on the processors end if you run powerdvd it will put more work on the video card so it should be as much of a problem). But typically the video card can handle it. Just remember if you get the minimum of ram to do work you should also consider that onboard video takes away from that memory. That would be the biggest reason to get a new card so it's not eating your RAM, or if you wanted to play some game that this card can't quite handle.

02-15-2009, 02:42 AM	#4
hamisht Active Member Member since:Jan 2008 Blu-ray reviews:4	Make sure something isnt draining your CPU, go CTRL+ALT+DEL and check the Performance and processes for anything odd. Virus scanner in progress? something like that.

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