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04-17-2003, 07:04 AM
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...a lone crusader in a dangerous world
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Hill Valley, California
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DVD rom question
i have a Creative Labs 5x DVD rom that came with a decoder card but when ever i play any DVDs that have Rom content that require Interactual Player 2.0 i get a message saying it cant detect the decoder card, older PC Friendly stuff works fine. Id like to get a new video card (current card is a 8mb PCI card with Svhs and composite video outs) that has DVD playback i have PowerDVD XP 4.0 as my player works better than the software that came with the dvd rom. so basically i wanna know if i get a video card preferably a ATI card can i just remove the decoder card and use the DVDrom drive and use the software that comes with the video card or the PowerDVD player. I cant seem to get any info from Creative Labs and there is no Phone # for ATI. any help would be MOST appriciated
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04-17-2003, 07:19 AM
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Tenacious "OB" 
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Spanaway Washington
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Yes.
Short, sweet, and to the point  I use the Radion 7500 for my HTPC, and am planning on upgrading to the 9500 Pro hopefully in June. I may wait till August for that one. You may want to upgrade the ROM as well. You should be able to get a 16X DVDROM for less than 50 bucks. I bet you would see an improvement in pperformance with that as well. j
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04-17-2003, 01:46 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Harrisonburg, VA
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I second upgrading the drive. 5X is SLOW.
The video card will definitely help you out. All newer cards (even my old GF2MX does it) have DVD-ROM support, and really help out performance greatly.
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04-17-2003, 02:21 PM
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Would Make a Good Incubus
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: nowhere near Nebraska
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Let me just point out that that 5x drive is more than likely region free - an issue that wasn't resolved until 6x drives (and faster) were released. Also, that 5x is still faster than drives found in most desktop DVD players.
But if the multi-region thing isn't an issue, it's worth upgrading... |
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04-18-2003, 05:39 AM
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...a lone crusader in a dangerous world
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Hill Valley, California
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actually my drive is Region free according to creative labs all their drives are region free, i dont mind the slow speed i never had any problems playing dvds both old and new i may get a newer CL dvdrom in the future thanks for the help guys, i appriciate it
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