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I had a half built AMD FX 8150 system so I finished it off last night with a Kingston SSD and an nVidia 580GTX, I know the card is overkill but it's what I had. Problem is that there are no HD audio codecs listed and none of my movies will play in DTS HD or TrueHD. The system I built with a cheap 430GTX works perfectly for HD audio. Why is that?
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Main HTPC: Home Built i3, 8GB RAM, Corsair 128GB SSD, nVidia 630GTX, Harmony Home Control, Pioneer VSX-53, Panasonic VT30 65" 3D TV, Windows 10, Isengard
Bedroom HTPC: Zotac-ID 41 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, Rii micro keyboard remote, Samsung HW-E550, Sony 32" Google TV, OpenElec 6.0 beta 4
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I did some Googling and see people complaining that nVidia cripples their high end cards. I'd hoped to use the 580 for high performance graphics so I could game too. It's not showing anywhere near the amount of codecs that my 430 shows in my current HTPC. I'd just hoped that I could get a more current generation card in there for some high performance graphics and still have DTS HD and TrueHD.
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maybe i'm wrong then. if i think about it today i will move my gaming pc to the tv and hook it up. I need to unplug it and blow the dust off outside anyway. lol, i'll never remember. you may could run a second graphic card?
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2012-07-25, 16:53
(This post was last modified: 2012-07-25, 16:53 by sialivi.)
Just to get these stupid questions out of the way:
1) It is hooked up with HDMI, correct?
2) You are using a Frodo build, correct?
3) In the Audio settings, you have enabled HDMI output, TrueHD cable receiver, DTS-HD capable receiver, and set the Audio output device and Passthrough output device to the correct WASAPI:HDMI... device?
4) You're not using an ancient nVidia driver, correct?
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All stupid questions confirmed. :-)
At lunch I bought a 630 GT which on the back says it bitstreams DTS HD and TrueHD so I'll update the thread with what happens when I get home.
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Yes I have a high end receiver Pioneer VSX53 that supports everything. I run everything through me receiver, so the HTPC was going into the receiver by HDMI and then a single HDMI out to the TV. I also already had the latest driver. Nothing I did would give me HD Audio.
I was walking around Best Buy today and grabbed a 630GT. I swapped out my 580GTX and did a clean installation of the driver. After 2 reboots I was done, set the VSX53 as the default audio device, checked the supported formats, and everything I needed was listed, TrueHD, DTS HD, etc. I wonder if they just make their high end cards just not capable of bitsreaming HD audio because they are really meant for desktop gaming systems.
I also set up stereoscopic 3D and wonder how I can in corporate that into my entertainment. My 3D ripped movies all seem to be SBS and I'm not sure how to make XMC flip to a 24Hz mode automatically anyways.
Server: Synology Diskstation 1511+ with 8x WD Red NAS 3TB drives, DSM 5.2
Main HTPC: Home Built i3, 8GB RAM, Corsair 128GB SSD, nVidia 630GTX, Harmony Home Control, Pioneer VSX-53, Panasonic VT30 65" 3D TV, Windows 10, Isengard
Bedroom HTPC: Zotac-ID 41 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, Rii micro keyboard remote, Samsung HW-E550, Sony 32" Google TV, OpenElec 6.0 beta 4