Asus AMD Hudson E35M1-M PRO ZACATE High CPU Utilization?

[hohingday]

Hi All,

Does anyone have experience with this board?

I have just put together a new HTPC with the following spec:
Antec Fusion Remote
Asus E35M1-M PRO ZACATE
4GB Corsair Ram 1066

Initially I tried to play a 1080p mkv file (circa 10gb) and it was very jerky with both MPC and VLC. I turned on the acceleration for VLC and it has made it much better but it doesn't seem 100% smooth and the CPU Utilization is around the 80% mark.

Does anyone know if this is the norm? After reading the reviews it seems to imply the Hudson should play 1080p content flawlessly.

Thanks

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Have you tried the latest drivers as it sounds like the video decoding is not being offloaded to the GPU.

 

[hohingday]

Em no I havent, I have just used the drivers from the CD!
I'll give it a go this evening, abit strange that the CD drivers dont utilize the GPU....

 

[lmfy2k]

are you using MPC Home Cinema edition yeh?

 

[hohingday]

Yep MPC - http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/

 

[hohingday]

So i had a look at the latest drivers on the asus website, it looks like i am using the latest drivers!
Any other ideas?

I am running Win 7 btw.

 

[Cookeh]

Right, I'll say what I've said in a few other threads on the matter.

At this moment in time there is only one piece of software that can support 1080p playback with the Hudson boards - the rset need to be optimized/updated.

If I can find the last issue of CustomPC I'll even tell you what that one piece of software is

 

[DragonQ]

Are you using the EVR Custom Pres. renderer in MPC? You need to use that for hardware acceleration (DXVA 2) to work.

 

[hohingday]

Right, I'll say what I've said in a few other threads on the matter.

At this moment in time there is only one piece of software that can support 1080p playback with the Hudson boards - the rset need to be optimized/updated.

If I can find the last issue of CustomPC I'll even tell you what that one piece of software is

Really? Argh that is annoying, from what i have been reading i thought it would play easily! If you could let me know that would be great!

I also seem to be having slight audio delay on the TV, would this be due to CPU utilization or something else altogether?

 

[hohingday]

Are you using the EVR Custom Pres. renderer in MPC? You need to use that for hardware acceleration (DXVA 2) to work.

No I haven't adjusted anything in MPC, I will try that - thanks

 

[Cookeh]

I'm at school atm, will have to have a look at home!

Tried googling it?

 

[hohingday]

Just an update so MPC and VLC still occasionally jerk for some reason but I have now tried xmbc which is running it flawlessly