ASUS EAH3870

[balky]

Hi,

I realise this might not be the best forum to post this since it is not completely a DVBV issue, but I am hoping someone else might just have had a similar problem or have suggestions.

I recently ugraded my Asus EN8600GT graphics card to an Asus EAH3870 due to constant background image noise when running at 720p / 60 and plenty of flickering when I change the resolution to 1080i / 60 with the EN8600GT card. The noise is reduced a bit only when I use VMR7 with windows XP, with Vista no matter which renderer I use, the image quality is always very poor.

To solve all the performance issues I decided to upgrade my graphics card to the Asus EAH3870, I also changed my motherboard / processor combination from an Asus M2N / AMD Athlon dual core 4400 to Asus P5K / Intel core 2 duo E4500 to gain some more horse power and reduce the cooler noise coming from the HTPC when the AMD processor gets warm and the fan speeds up.

After all the upgrade and re-installation of Vista 32 bit, the first thing I noticed was that at startup, the resolution went straight to 1080i / 60 and there was no flickering this time and when I started DVBV, all the background noise was gone. The new problem now is that the image looks blurry and when there is plenty of motion, I see pixels on the screen.

I have tried different configuration combinations in the Catalyst control center that is provided with the 3870 card, but I just can't seem to get the right combination to produce the kind of image quality you would expect from this kind of card.

 

My setup is as follows:

DVBV - 3.9.3.41 (This beta version actually works a lot better than the stable 3.9.2 version)

OS - Vista 32 bit

Renderer - EVR (VMR7 / 9 not so good)

TV - SONY Bravia 50 inches

PC is connected to TV via DVI -> HDMI cable

Codecs - PowerDVD ultra 8

 

Problems: Blurry Image + visible pixels when image is not still

 

I will really appreciate suggestion on which settings to use in DVBV / graphics card to get a good quality image.

 

Thanks,

 

B.

[balky]

I guess no one is answering this because it's in english...

I was wondering if there is an english forum for this...