3D Acceleration mode not possible with my setup...could it be my video card?

[Bilar Crais]

My box is outlined in my signature. I can use overlay mode just fine, but if I attempt to use 3D Accelerated mode, BTV attempts to connect to my specified codec, but then defaults to the proprietary codec. It is very jerky and pegs CPU usage at 100 percent before it finally defaults. I can live with Overlay Mode, but it's kind of dark. My video card is an Nvidia Quadro NVS 64meg card, which is supposed to be a professional model. I don't know much about it, as I swapped my 8500DV for it. I like it because it doesn't have a fan...just one big ol' heatsink. It does a nice job of hardware de-interlacing with Sonic and Cyberlink; CPU usage is 15-22%. Do you suppose my video adapter is to blame?

TIA

CF

[Bilar Crais]

Fixed!


I had my bios set to the "APIC" mode, which effectively gives you 24 IRQs.
This option had given me trouble with other hardware in the past, so today when I did a fresh Windows install, I disabled the option, and now my 3D acceleration works as it should.