Onboard graphics is definitely a bottleneck and could cause the symptoms you are experiencing. Purchasing a graphics card would be a major improvement for your system.
Very, very, very well said. If you build a system today that only meets the minimum requirements it likely will not be good enough to play the movies that come out a few months from now.
Ahhh the magic word.............MAC. My condolences. No slot, no card.If you know how to fit a graphics card into a mac mini, you're a better man than I, Gunga Din.
I think that's unlikely. Unless people are going to be expected to upgrade their HDDVD set-top players?
i tried it with a pentium 4 with 3,2ghz and 1GB ram and a middle-class radeon card, but in action scenes like in mission impossible 3 the pc was to slow. it runs, but not perfect. the processor usage was 80-99% ;-)
now i've got a core 2 duo with 2,4ghz and 2gb ram and a radeon x1950 pro and it works perfect!
I've got an AMD dual core 4200 with 2 gigs of RAM, and a ATI Radeon 1600 (512 Megs of RAM) PCI-E graphics card. I am using the X-BOX 360 HD-DVD drive through a USB 2.0 port connection.
AnyDVD-HD took several hours ripping King Kong to my hard drive; I gave up after 8 hours and aborted the rip. I also purchased Cyberlink's PowerDVD Ultra version but the video is jerky, the sound goes off and on, and it is impossible to watch.
Do I need to upgrade my graphics card? I've already spent $30 for AnyDVD HD, and a $100 for PowerDVD Ultra. Any suggestions would be deeply appreciated. Thanks.:doh:
In my case, it took me about 1hour and 10 min to rip KingKong to HDD using a single core Athlon 64 3800+. CPU usage was like 30%.
I ripped King Kong to my harddrive with my computer also, that is not the issue, it is playback.
palavering said:AnyDVD-HD took several hours ripping King Kong to my hard drive; I gave up after 8 hours and aborted the rip.