Well, Doom 3 runs fine on Windows. I should have mentioned that. Tell me of these binary drivers you speak of.<br><br>I suppose a sample file at that res would be a good thing to try as well. That way I would know if it is the playback or something else.
<br><br>I will check the top when I get home.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jarod Wilson</b> <<a href="mailto:lists@wilsonet.com">lists@wilsonet.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Ackster wrote:<br>> I use a 6600GT w/ a Athlon64 3400+ and I get occasional chop @ 1920x1080
<br>> with Nvidia crappy driver, so you certainly will. It traced it back to<br>> the sync settings of the driver. Watch your 'top' when you get choppy<br>> playback, you should see it spiking to 100% and back down to mid point
<br>> and back up again when the chop occurs again. If it does, fire up<br>> nvidia-settings applet and toggle off a v-sync or something (I forget<br>> honestly) and test your CPU load again. One of those settings makes a
<br>> dramatic difference on the load. Search this forum, I posted about the<br>> setting before.<br><br>Wait, are you still getting chop w/those hardware specs? If so,<br>something is screwy in your setup. I've got an Athlon 64 3500+ w/a
<br>GeForce 6200TC card, and cpu usage never goes over 35% playing back<br>1080i content, never over 30% for 720p, and definitely no chop.<br><br><br>> As for Doom 3 being ok, it uses shaders to speed up<br>> video output, but your HDTV playback won't as there's no geometry to
<br>> work with (it's straight video, not mathematical modeling), so that's<br>> not a fair comparison.<br><br>Definitely not a relevant comparison.<br><br><br>> Eric Broszeit wrote:<br>>> I have a
3.8Ghz Celeron D. My video card is a GeForce 5700 128MB. It<br>>> is enough for Doom 3. Seeing as how I am going through firewire, I<br>>> figured that the video card would be less relevant.<br><br>The video card is EXTREMELY relevant. The firewire side of things does
<br>nothing more than dump an mpeg2 file to disk. It has approximately zero<br>relevance to your system's ability to play back said file. However, you<br>certainly should have an ample amount of cpu power and a capable enough
<br>video card. My first guess would be that you're not using the binary<br>nvidia drivers, but that seems unlikely since you say doom 3 runs fine...<br><br>--<br>Jarod Wilson<br><a href="mailto:jarod@wilsonet.com">jarod@wilsonet.com
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