powerdvd 7 ultra PROBLEMS

[swiss]

finally after several hours got my computer to play hd dvd from xbox 360 hd rom. one thing though when i play and i check to see if hardware acceleration is enabled its not and is grayed out. while playing regular dvd's it is enabled. looking at cpu (c2d od'ed to 2.8) its around 25%, i have a radeon hd 2600 pro. any suggestions or is it working and just grayed for no reason? also i cant even watch a movie off of my hd, it skips and all hell breaks loose. and yet a new problem i just noticed. when i update powerdvd it ads a shortcut to the desktop in the start menu and deletes some of the items on the menu. i have no explanation or reasoning for this except computers dont like me. has any had this or heard of this happening to them? thanks.

[agentcooper]

I'm having the same problem. I installed the patch from Cyberlink and I still can't get hardware acceleration.

I have a Sapphire 2600pro, latest catalyst drivers.

When I connect to my display (Dell 2001FPW) w/DVI I get error code = 0100. No luck either connecting to my HLS4676 either. Of course cyberlink has no info on that code. When I connect over VGA I can load an HD-DVD but no hardware acceleration. That's the whole point of this damn series of cards!!!!!!!!

I've tried WinDVD too but it is useless.

[agentcooper]

ok, so I unistalled PVD and then reinstalled it then the patch again and now I get HW acceleration.

I can finally play the King Kong HD-DVD that came with the Xbox add-on. However, I'm getting CPU usage way higher than should be expected. 50-70% throughout the film. I ru XP Pro on an Athlon XP 3800 clocked to ~2.0 GHz and 2GB RAM but full GPU decode is suppose to mean just that. THe Hardspell review on the Radeon HD2400/2600 saw 10% CPU usage and lower on a Sempron 2800 system with all the VC1 and h.264 titles they used.

Something still isn't right. Not sure what. Is it PVD? Is it the ATI drivers? As for now it works with the more demanding VC1 encoded film. Good enough for now.

[swiss]

ok i got mine fixed. had to make sure i wasnt using a powerdvd 7.2 patched to 7.3 b/c it will screw everything up. had to get 7.3.2911 and install the patch and it worked. the 7.8 drivers wouldnt work on my lcd so i went back to 7.7 but it works. but my main problem was the powerdvd patch and making sure it wasnt 7.2 patched to 7.3. hope this helps