VideoWave & Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS

[JeffreyTz]

Hi, VideoWave doesn't seem to be optimized for the newest Nvidia GeForce 8 series cards. I have a 8800 GTS which according to both benchmarks and my "seat of the pants" evaluation in other apps is about 5 times faster than my old ATI Radeon card in my P4 3.2GHZ Dell XPS 4. However when VideoWave does its hardward tests it determines that the card isn't "fast enough" to handle 3D or page turn transitions and switches to software rendering (which doesn't let you use 3D or page turn or some of the other transition effects).

 

This card is clearly a sledgehammer and there's no way software rendering should be "better". I manually switched to Hardware and tried a coupld of the 3D transitions but they didn't look right in the previews (I've tried EMC10 on my new XPS M1330 laptop and hardware rendering works perfectly there with its built-in chipset, so I can see the difference). I've uploaded to the latest Nvidia drivers and no difference there.

 

Is this a known issue? I can't find any fixes or articles on video cards, if there are some can someone point me in the right direction? Anyone else having this issue?

 

Thanks!

 

JT

[JeffreyTz]

In the Nvidia Control panel, what option is it set?

 

 

Hi, thanks for the idea, and you were close The "quality" settings didn't make a difference, however changing the first option to "let 3d application decide" solved the problem! Re-ran the hardware test and now its showing the 3D transitions and just tearing through rendering.

 

Thanks!

 

JT

[malatekid]

Hi, thanks for the idea, and you were close The "quality" settings didn't make a difference, however changing the first option to "let 3d application decide" solved the problem! Re-ran the hardware test and now its showing the 3D transitions and just tearing through rendering.

 

Thanks!

 

JT

Glad to know you got it worked.

[malatekid]

In the Nvidia Control panel, what option is it set?

 

[REDWAGON]

Not sure what other hardware you have on the computer (especially the Power Supply). I have just been through this same problem with a friend of mine and his computer. His graphics card is a good one that can certainly run in the hardware mode in Roxio EMC 10. However, it would only run in software mode.

 

After checking about all I could find, I finally checked his power supply. Well guess what. His PS was only a 350 watt with a max. 12v at 17 amps. After checking the requirements of his new video card, it had minimum requirements of 450 watts/12v at 18 amps. After changing out the power supply to a 500 watt with 12v at 18 amps---the EMC 10 Videowave now will accept hardware rendering.

 

Just something to check out---

 

Frank...