Strange behavior after video card upgrade

[jasahl]

I posted this over @ the byopvr forum since this probably isn't a BTV issue.

Anyway, I've been having problems with BTV Link occasionally maxing out the CPU resulting in extremely jerky playback. Since I've been pretty much stabbing in the dark at this, I decided to upgrade my graphics card (if this doesn't fix the issue, I'll upgrade to a P4 over my Celeron).

Anyway, I bought a new nVidia Geforce 6200A & swapped out the FX5200. So far, CPU util seems to be down (I use the nVidia decoder & my hunch is that the decoder will be able to unload more processing to the 6200 than it could the FX5200).

Video quality seems much better in Overlay than it did before, but when I switch to 3D accelerated, I get a blank screen (audio is fine). 3D worked with the 5200 (although I didn't use it much because there was quite a bit of smearing).

[jasahl]

Any ideas?

[Bilar Crais]

Yep.

Switch on Hardware Deinterlace...everything will be fine.
It's just one of those things with the 6XXX Nvidia cards...no one knows why.

[jasahl]

Thanks. I'll give it a shot.

[fmharr]

Update???

[jasahl]

Originally Posted by fmharr

Update???

I'm able to view 3D Accelerated now, but it's not much improvement over the FX5200 I had (Overlay is slightly better than the FX5200). I guess the upgrade was a waste of $$.

I suspect the real issues I'm having is with the cheap arse mobo I installed. I had to fiddle with that thing forever (Including several BIOS flashes) to get it to even work properly (kept getting the BSOD). Anyone familiar with Foxconn?

Shoulda paid a little extra for an ASUS...

[rander]

I suspect the real issues I'm having is with the cheap arse mobo I installed. I had to fiddle with that thing forever (Including several BIOS flashes) to get it to even work properly (kept getting the BSOD). Anyone familiar with Foxconn?

What chipset is on the MB? I've read a lot of posts that complain about VIA chipsets although I'm sure there are people using VIA chipsets without any problems. Also, what CPU do you use? You should post that and people with a similar system to yours may have already run into similar problems. That's what's great about this forum.

EDIT: Didn't see the tag line indicating that the BTV Link system has a Celeron D -- sorry.

I, too, upgraded both my video card and my tuner at the same time and had no problems with either.

Personally, I use an Intel MB and an Intel CPU and haven't had any "system" problems. I've had BTV problems but nothing that would cause me to complain. I just search the forum and usually either find an answer or someone else also has the same problem which means a bug in BTV.