- Oct 9, 2011
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At home I have a blu-ray dvd player for my tv. I've a largish collection of dvds and I've been selectively buying some blu-ray disks.
My self built pc is about 2yrs old. AMD Phenom 9950, quad core, 2.60ghz.
4 gig of matched memory. Mb is Gigabyte m750sli-ds4. Graphics are nvidia 750a SLI on the motherboard, plus a zotac nvidia geforce 8800gt daughterboard which was a mid-ranged card.
Main monitor's plugged into the 8800gt, smaller monitor's plugged into the 750sli DVI.
I work from home as a software developer and sometimes have a video playing on my 2nd monitor while coding on my first. I also use the pc for games playing and it's been fine for what I've needed.
A couple of months ago I thought I'd buy an internal blu-ray player so I could watch my blu-ray's and settled on LG's ch10ls20. I'm not particularly interested in the HD aspects as I've got that in the other room if I want to sit in there.
The drive came with Cyberlink's version 7 software which didn't find the BD drive although everything else tested ok on their BD Advisor.
(I also downloaded the trial version of Cyberlink's latest player. This version saw the blu-ray when I loaded a disk but the player spat back at me saying that software acceleration only came with the full version. I'm not paying their prices for a full player that might not even work when I get it)
After emails to LG and Cyberlink to try to solve the problem, a representative from LG phoned me up and told me that the tech department said that for BD to work it needed a high-end system to run on.
Is my pc so poorly specced? I've considered building a newer pc but just to play Blu-ray seems a poor excuse to spend hundreds of pounds.
I also wondered if some problem was generated because I'm using 2 graphics cards. I've no idea how extending the desktop across 2 screens affects performance. Or is it because I'm not using HD output.
My self built pc is about 2yrs old. AMD Phenom 9950, quad core, 2.60ghz.
4 gig of matched memory. Mb is Gigabyte m750sli-ds4. Graphics are nvidia 750a SLI on the motherboard, plus a zotac nvidia geforce 8800gt daughterboard which was a mid-ranged card.
Main monitor's plugged into the 8800gt, smaller monitor's plugged into the 750sli DVI.
I work from home as a software developer and sometimes have a video playing on my 2nd monitor while coding on my first. I also use the pc for games playing and it's been fine for what I've needed.
A couple of months ago I thought I'd buy an internal blu-ray player so I could watch my blu-ray's and settled on LG's ch10ls20. I'm not particularly interested in the HD aspects as I've got that in the other room if I want to sit in there.
The drive came with Cyberlink's version 7 software which didn't find the BD drive although everything else tested ok on their BD Advisor.
(I also downloaded the trial version of Cyberlink's latest player. This version saw the blu-ray when I loaded a disk but the player spat back at me saying that software acceleration only came with the full version. I'm not paying their prices for a full player that might not even work when I get it)
After emails to LG and Cyberlink to try to solve the problem, a representative from LG phoned me up and told me that the tech department said that for BD to work it needed a high-end system to run on.
Is my pc so poorly specced? I've considered building a newer pc but just to play Blu-ray seems a poor excuse to spend hundreds of pounds.
I also wondered if some problem was generated because I'm using 2 graphics cards. I've no idea how extending the desktop across 2 screens affects performance. Or is it because I'm not using HD output.
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