new vid card, more ram, reload, major capture problem!

[jaybird]

Same box, same hardware (mostly) same software and OS's (well, almost) for 2 years.

Upgraded vid card from G400 dual hd, 32meg to GForce FX5500 128meg and added 512meg to a total of a gig ram, reformatted both drives(20gig for os's win98se/win2k pro) and 60gig for video work, reloaded all software.

Before I could capture at 720 X 480 and it was not even working hard! Now 352 X 240 is the best I can do. Funny thing, I can still capture at 720 X 480, no dropped frames but I either loose color and everything is shades of blue/gray and/or there are LOTS of horizontal random streaks throughout capture but I drop no frames and my CPU usage is the same!

Dual PIII's, 1gig PC133 ram, FX5500 vid card, SBLive 5.1 Platinum, SIIG multi-purpose PCI card, Adaptec SCSII interface for scanner, 10/100 NIC.

WIN98SE/WIN2K PRO SP4, Via 4 in 1 chipset drivers, WinTV GO! capture card with btwinwdm drivers, VirtualVCR for analog capture, WinDV for Firewire capture, VirtualDUB for editing, AIST MovieXone Plus!, DVD LAB for authoring, TMPGEnc Plus for final compression and format conversion and either Nero or CD Burner XP PRO for burning.

Normal analog capture settings were:

720 X 480, YUY2, PIC MJPEG compressor, 44HZ, 16 bit PCM stereo, not compressed and various VDUB filters.

At these settings I typically saw only about 47% to 65% max, cpu usage and about 280 meg of ram used.

Ideas or thoughts please!

Regards,

jaybird

[INFRATOM]

Sounds like macrovision protection what are you capturing?

[jaybird]

I am going from VCR to analog in on capture card.

Again, captures fine at 352 x 240!

Regards,

jaybird

[iooi]

Long shot...
Try removing new stick of ram and see if its any better.
Or something isnt installed right.

[jaybird]

It worked with new ram and old vid card until old card failed and had corrupt drivers. Reformatted drives, installed new vid card, reinstalled all existing software and WHAM!

Regards,

jaybird

PS

I'm almost ready to pull everything out except vid card, 1 stick ram, 1 hdd, 1 cd-rom drive and start over. Sometimes easier and takes less time than troubleshooting!

[pfh]

Just a thought, but is that newly added ram stick the same density as the original?
Since you have dual cpu board it may be more particular then other's. I do know that many boards do not act well at all with memory sticks of differing densities.