TV Card System Usage

Wee · 8 Nov 2007 at 20:23

Bought an XFX TV card a couple of years back, but then actually got round to using it. Decided to put some use to it tonight, but before I do, I have a little question.

How much system resources does running a TV card take up? I use my machine mainly for gaming, so if I'm running a game and watching TV at the sametime is the TV card likely to cause me some slow down?

My machine is C2D E6750, OCZ 2GB PC2 6400.

Cheers.

BENdage · 8 Nov 2007 at 20:28

It'll slow down a bit, but not a lot, TV card doesnt use a lot just to play, less than if you were playing a Div X because there is less decoding, or mine certainly didnt anyway. Mine was pinnacle I think, and I had it running on my old Athlon 2500 @ 2.75 system and it didnt really affect gaming

paradigm · 8 Nov 2007 at 20:37

Why would you be doing both at once :confused:

BENdage · 8 Nov 2007 at 20:41

Mine was a dual monitor setup, have a movie or tv on whilst playing a game

Wee · 8 Nov 2007 at 20:43

BENdage said:
Mine was a dual monitor setup, have a movie or tv on whilst playing a game

Yeah, same setup here.

Glad to hear I won't see much slowdown. Will give it a shot tonight. Cheers.

paradigm · 8 Nov 2007 at 20:54

I more meant how can you physically watch both at the same time :/

BENdage · 8 Nov 2007 at 20:59

well, the game in question for me was Civ 3, so its pretty easy to watch something else while waiting for the turn to end

Wee · 8 Nov 2007 at 21:32

Before I went through the hassle of sticking the card in, I searched about for the drivers, and thank god I did. Apparently Nvidia have stopped supporting the card, so it's borked under Vista.

Lovely ...