in my opinion, cracking AACS 2 isn't that important because there is the option of purchasing those Pioneer AACS 2 drives. What's much more important is to turn off the flag that enforces SGX because I have a gaming PC.
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Sure SGX can be solved with money, just buy an Z299 Intel motherboard and a Kaby Lake processor. Thats money. LOLbtw I'm not rich. Only own 1 monitor and no TV. Using a dedicated rig or player to play these discs isn't practical due to lack of space etc. But at least the
AACS 2 drive problem can be solved with money. SGX can't.
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Sure SGX can be solved with money, just buy an Z299 Intel motherboard and a Kaby Lake processor. Thats money. LOL
Thats why I love computers, they just take all your money and then ask for it again in another year. LOL... and I honestly see SGX being superceded by something newer (ie SGX2 ?) not long from now with a new chipset to make people have to buy yet another new mobo, CPU, RAM, etc, as if they aren't doing this enough with the release of the release of Kaby Lake and now Coffee Lake...
Sorry, you just bought a Kaby Lake and want to bump to a new Coffee Lake? Nope can't use the same mobo. Need to buy a new one. Thanks for the money! Gotta love innovation.
Sure SGX can be solved with money, just buy an Z299 Intel motherboard and a Kaby Lake processor. Thats money. LOL
Thats why I love computers, they just take all your money and then ask for it again in another year. LOL
I have that. Z270 and i7-7700K but can't get SGX to work. Gave up as there is very little info out there on how to get it to work and I can't even seem to find the Intel IME drivers that are specifically for my mobo. I've just installed what appeared to be right and it resolved the 'PCI Simple Communications Controller' missing driver issue in Device manager and now when I hibernate my PC the power LED shuts off whereelse before it would just keep flashing like it's actually gone to sleep rather than hibernate. However when I run CyberLink's Blu-Ray advisor software it still says IME and SGX missing.
Wait a sec, even if I solve this it still won't work as I'm using NVIDIA cards in SLI so no money can't solve that! Lol.
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The question for me is the price worth it at present for the limited range of discs that are supported.... or just wait a bit longer.
Certainly not. I own 14 UHD Blu-ray discs and not one of them is supported. I don't expect the number of discs to dramatically increase in the near future, because I believe the discs need to be bought & played in a compromised player by the developers. But they can improve this and possibly automate the process. But unless they do this... no, thank you.The question for me is the price worth it at present for the limited range of discs that are supported.... or just wait a bit longer.
@happyguy82 Sorry, I may have missed it. What exact mobo do you have?
hahaha there's nothing to be sorry about at all
If there's any hope of resolution, I'm using an ASUS ROG Maximus IX Formula, Z270, i7-7700K
Thanks in advance.
I'm running an ASUS Maximus VIII Extreme (Z170). I grabbed the needed IME stuff from the support page on ASUS' site. Looking at the support page for your board (https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/ROG-MAXIMUS-IX-FORMULA/HelpDesk_Download/) look under the chipset downloads.
I let the Cyberlink UHD Advisor install SGX for me. My Z170 system passes both the SGX and IME tests.
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Edit: ASUS is pretty good about drivers and such on their support pages although certain things I'll update when the version they post is behind. Haven't experienced that much with my M8 but ran into it a lot with my older Rampage Formula (X48) that I used for the last 9 years before moving to the M8.
OOooooooOOoo thank you very much for helping me to locate this. Will give it a go soon. Thanks again, much appreciated.