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Help ! PowerDVD 7.3 PureVideo/Hardware Acceleration not working
Oblix [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Mar 24, 2009 13:10 Messages: 2 Offline
[Post New] Mar 24, 2009 13:18
Here are details of my system:

Windows Vista Business
ZOTAC NF630I-D-E LGA 775 NVIDIA GeForce 7100 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard with latest nVidia driver
Intel Celeron Dual Core E1400, 2GB
Power DVD 7.3 (the bundled version upgraded to the latest updates)with Sony BDUX10S blu ray drive

Hardware acceleration (Pure Video) is enabled in Power DVD. When Power DVD playback starts, PureVideo is disabled automatically (verified it by clicking on config tab), the box is grayed out so you can't change it. Vista also displays message : "The color scheme is changed to vista basic". The blu ray play back is choppy. DVD playback is perfect because CPU is sufficient for DVD. For blu ray, CPU usages peaks to 100% and stays between 92-97% so GPU is definitely not used.

Why Power DVD cannot use PureVideo? Do I need to make some changes to nVidia settings? has anyone seen this problem? Do I need to upgrade PDVD to take advantage of nVidia Hardware acceleration?
Daisuke [Avatar]
Contributor Joined: Oct 03, 2006 06:25 Messages: 354 Offline
[Post New] Mar 25, 2009 03:21
Hello,

You can update your graphics chip driver.
Probably the PowerDVD cannot the detect the driver support the DXVA of some video steam format.
Oblix [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Mar 24, 2009 13:10 Messages: 2 Offline
[Post New] Mar 25, 2009 10:28
The driver for GeForce 7100 is up to date (version 182.xx) I wonder if PDVD just looks at nVidia GeForce 7100 and decides not to use HA since it is not in the recommended list (minimum nVidia 7600 is recommended). BD adviser says CPU does not have HA. what does that mean? CPU never has HA it is GPU. It also show CPU in red since it is celeron but it is dual core E1400 and I did not buy it to decode BD codecs. I want GPU to do that. I don't know if PDVD does not use HA becauase my GPU does not meet the "requirements", although it has the capability. Maybe only developer can answer my question. If I know for sure that this GPU cannot be used for HA then I'm doomed. I have to get core 2 duo or Pentium DC to get the decoding going.

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