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ATI HD 4870

Willbo

Willbo

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Couple of questions;

1) What does the hotfix do? I've installed the latest drivers from the ATI site with no problems so far.

2) What is the best software for watching films in HD when connected to my TV via a HDMI cable, and for Blu-Ray films too if possible.
 
Willbo said:
Couple of questions;

1) What does the hotfix do? I've installed the latest drivers from the ATI site with no problems so far.

2) What is the best software for watching films in HD when connected to my TV via a HDMI cable, and for Blu-Ray films too if possible.
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1) Not sure, like you say, I'm running the latest beta's with no issues (unless the beta's include the hotfix. :) Best to have it installed I guess though.

2) VLC Player.
 
OK, I'll check that out. Just tried watching a film via Media Player on my TV and picture quality looks impressive. Will try PowerDVD.

Still not sure on dual displays on how to set them up correctly. I've got a DVD-HDMI cable so can connect my TV for the intention of watching films and playing games on my HDTV. What is the best way to set this up and what settings should I alter. I really would appreciate someones help for this. At the moment I've got all default settings and the picture is cloned on both screens.
 
Willbo said:
Anyone hooked the card upto their HD TV's yet?
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Ditto here , i have been looking at this card for gaming and hooking up to my 37" LG TV , anyone tried it on a large screen tv , whats the quality like for HD Movies and also gaming on a screen that size ????
 
mmorpheus1 said:
Ditto here , i have been looking at this card for gaming and hooking up to my 37" LG TV , anyone tried it on a large screen tv , whats the quality like for HD Movies and also gaming on a screen that size ????
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Seriously, once hooked up and using POWER DVD ULTRA, you are simply blown away by the picture quality, this on my 37" samsung 1080p.:D
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Seriously, once hooked up and using POWER DVD ULTRA, you are simply blown away by the picture quality, this on my 37" samsung 1080p.:D
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Cheers for the fast response , have you tried any gaming on your tv , if so how does the card cope with the framerates ???
 
Well 1080p is just about giving the same FPS as my 1680x1050 monitor and it looks great, the screen is scaled properly and looks great, CCC automatically detects your TV and puts out the correct rez. For HD playback all i did was enable hardware acceleration ( ATI AVIVO ) in power dvd ultra and that was it, sublime playback quality through my pioneer bluray drive.
 
I'll give it a whirl tomorrow.

Just tried a few games at last after I finished my clean install of Vista.
COD4 - 1680 x 1050. Everything on high, and 4 x AA....very smooth
Crysis - 1680 x 1050. 4 x AA and everything on high...smooth, even in cutscenes. Just changed all the settings to very high and still smooth gameplay and cutscenes..very impressive. The 8800GT would struggle with the AA turned on during the cutscenes and game play.

Loving this card so far.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Well 1080p is just about giving the same FPS as my 1680x1050 monitor and it looks great, the screen is scaled properly and looks great, CCC automatically detects your TV and puts out the correct rez. For HD playback all i did was enable hardware acceleration ( ATI AVIVO ) in power dvd ultra and that was it, sublime playback quality through my pioneer bluray drive.
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Quick question for you Raven, do you extend or clone your desktop with CCC? At the moment I'm running it cloned
 
Run the TV as extended not cloned.
Set it to it's native res.
Set the refresh rate to as close as the source you are watching. 24Hz for bluray, 50 or 60hz for downloaded TV, etc. shows.
Set TV to 'just scan'/1:1 pixel mapping.
if you get a black border check the overscan settings in CCC, probably need to set it to 0%.
 
OK I'll give that a go, however on another note, I play games on the TV which is easy to do whilst the screen is cloned. But is there any software that I can use to start a program on the 2nd (TV) display rather than the 1st (Monitor)

I used to have a dual monitor setup and I remember a program similar but I cant remember the name of it.
 
chaosophy said:
Run the TV as extended not cloned.
Set it to it's native res.
Set the refresh rate to as close as the source you are watching. 24Hz for bluray, 50 or 60hz for downloaded TV, etc. shows.
Set TV to 'just scan'/1:1 pixel mapping.
if you get a black border check the overscan settings in CCC, probably need to set it to 0%.
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OK, I've set it as extended, with its native resolution of 1920x1080 with a refrest rate of 25i Hz. Can't find the setting for just scan/1:1 pixel mapping, is this to do with the image scaling? Because I have 4 options; Enable GPU scaling, Maintain aspect ration, scale image to full panel size, use centered timings. I'm not sure which settings to put it on so I've ticked enable gpu scaling and put it on centered timing and adjusted the overscan to near 0%.
Is this correct? Would really appreciate someones advice so can get this set up right.
 
Just scan/1:1 pixel mapping will be on the TV itself, if it has it. It's just to make sure you tell the TV not to scale the image at all and display it pixel for pixel for the image coming into it.

re: your other question about playing games on the 2nd screen. Some game, I think Tomb Raider Legends was the last one I saw, let you select the 2nd display adapter to output to. TR:L has a setup/options you can run out side of the game before the game loads. Other than that the easiest way is to just set your TV as the primary display before running the game.

Doing it this way works but can be a pain as you need to keep remembering to switch primary displays before and after gaming. If you do know of a utility that gets around this and can find it again I would be interested to know about it as well.

edit: just notice you are using 25i for the refresh. I'd probably avoid this if poss. If gaming go for 60Hz, blu-ray 24Hz, if you are wiatching videos that are at 25/30fps double it up so your refresh becomes 50/60Hz.
 
In CCC I just looked but for the resolution of 1920 x 1080 I can only have a refresh rate on my TV of 25i Hz, 29i Hz or 30i Hz unless I force a different refresh rate, is that ok to do? Are normal DVDs going to be 50/60hz refresh? I just watched one DVD whilst on the 24i and it seemed slightly shakey when the DVD menu was on the screen. Also on another note, the sound output seems bit whiry, what could be causing this?

On another note,
 
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