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Myxin
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2009-02-25, 20:49
Till today the automatic refreshrate switching is not working for me. I have tried this feature since it's available. I update to the newest SVN every two weeks and I have tried it with each new catalyst verision. I also tried it with two different ATI cards.
Who has this feature working on an ATI card with the 9.2 catalyst driver under Vista32 with the current SVN version?
Normaly I set "vsync always on" and "tripple buffering on" in the ccc.
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hi all, whats the best refresh rate to use on xbmc and everything else
is it best to use the max supported? i think my lcd tv supports up to 75hz but at the moment i think everything is set at 60hz on my computer
thanks
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Do I have to set anything in the ati-catalyst driver settings to let xbmc change the refresh rate?
As it is now XBMC cant change the refresh rate, even when i try doing it in the "screen settings" in XBMC.
The auto refresh works fine when i use my GMA-card, but then i got some other problems with the picture.
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This seems to be the case again. Function is down.
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Well maybe helps maybe not. The only way i get good playback is to use the integrated intel gpu, enabling aero (vista business 32b) and set vsync on (asynchronous flipping off), triple buffering on and disable vsync in xbmc. Also set the resolution to 1920x1080p 60Hz in xbmc.
Tried with a radeon 4870 every possible setting till nausea - didn't succeed.
Tried with a geforce 9500gt every possible setting till nausea - didn't succeed.
The smoothest pans and not jerky fast scenes are achieved on that pos intel onboard...
Its still good on the other "better" cards but it is nowhere near as smooth than on the onboard one. Using a dedicated htpc and gave up using my main pc.
gigabyte g41mf-us2h, e5300 (10x300 fsb) 2gig ram, 200Gb hdd, aerocool m40 cube chassis corsair 400w psu, old quiet e6600 d2d stock cooler. Runs silent and cool cept the northbirdge which gets 55-60 degrees C when xbmc idles.
The adjust refresh rate feture doesent do any good to me even tho my display supports 24Hz refresh.
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So, is there any developer that want to look in to this?
//Regards StarChild
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Works just fine for me and I have an ATI HD3200 integrated GPU as of Alpha 2. It worked for me in alpha 1 and in some of the more recent SVN's that were out before the alpha's were released.
Windows 7 x64 Home Premium
Gigabyte MA78GM-U2SH Mainboard
ATI HD3200 Onboard
AMD 7750BE Dual-Core 4.00GB RAM
ATI HD3200 HDMI Sound
HTPC HMDI -> ONKYO TX-SR605 -> Panasonic TH-46PZ85U Plasma
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2009-11-20, 18:54
(This post was last modified: 2009-11-20, 18:59 by miljbee.)
I haven't updated XBMC for few weeks, perhaps months. Today I updated to 24368 GL.
Adjust refresh rate doesn't work anymore.
I run XBMC on WinXP 32bits.
Computer is a 780G (Radeon HD3200), CPU is AMD4850e
Upgrading XBMC is the only change I made (not updated Gfx DRV).
Adjusting refresh rate + reclock was really great, the picture was perfectly smooth, and I would strongly like to get back this feature.
VBlank is off in XBMC and always on in ATI CCC.
When I play a video file, it starts immediately, I don't think XBMC tries to adjust the rr.
Is there some new requirements for it to work ?
Regards,
Thanks to all XBMC contributors, devs, skinners, scripters, ... It's really an amazing piece of software.
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Ati 3870 on Xp sp 3 here and auto refresh works absolutely fine for me on alpha 2 (and has done pretty much since the feature was introduced)
Not sure if this might help but have you tried setting all the resolutions/refresh rates you want in windows first (I always do this just to disable ATI's default underscan).
I think I remember having trouble with this until I had set the desired refresh rate and confirmed that it worked (click yes if you can see the desktop thingy) in windows. Once each refresh rate had been tried once in windows xbmc was then able to use it. (You only ever have to do this once.)
Caveat: my memory is very hazy on this so I could be completely wrong - but it might be something to try.