ATI 690G/x1250 problems (4 Viewers)

[BobMysterios]

Finally achieved good color

I have this setup, its been rocky. 4200+/2gig/latest ATI drivers

I have had issues with many things, but finally got it stable. I am using ffdshow for video processing. I had been using a ton of filters but it never produced a good image. I'm using the component out as my tv (which is dying) only has component in.

After months of tweaking I think i got it.

1. From ATI tray icon - Wait for Vertical Refresh - ON unless application says so
2. in MP - VMR9 - guassian quad filtering - non square mixing
3. in MP - No EVR but .Net3 is installed

The component output has a heavy saturation and a slight red push, to fix i did this

4. ffdshow picture properties RGB Gamma - red set at .97 - everything else off
5. ATI CCC component saturation set at 86
6. ATI Avivo video (which i'm not using so not sure if it has any effect) - contrast set to 108

This produced the best picture I've ever seen - no blooming, no glaring.

I also get no tearing (which i had prior to step 1) and no judder.

One last note. I run 800x600 resolution as the TV is 4x3 and I just watch xvids that have a low res. I use ffdshow to resize to 800 wide. And do these things in this order

1. picture properties (as shown in #4 above)
2. AVI Synth from a post here ColorYUV(levels="TV->PC") SetMemoryMax(1024) AssumeTFF() all checks
3. Sharpen - unsharp mask - strength 20
4. Deband - threshold 1.2
5. Resize & Aspect - specify horizontal size - 800 - always resize - no aspect ratio correction
6. Subtitles


A question for those in the know, is this a good ffdshow order?

Hope this post helps. If you're using this mobo w/ component your saturation is likely way high. I do have a long component run, perhaps that is causing an issue.

 

[Runny]

After struggling quite some time with WinXP I got the chance and upgraded to Vista.
It stopped freezing indeed, but not without "issues"
The problem is that video playback (either TV or DivX) is quite jumpy.
When running media player the issue is better ,yet far from satisfying
I’m using a Gigabyte version of the 690G+x1250 on an AMD +3500. newest drivers( v8.4).
Has Anyone got an idea what can be done to improve video quality ?

 

[Lotsofjazz]

After struggling quite some time with WinXP I got the chance and upgraded to Vista.
It stopped freezing indeed, but not without "issues"
The problem is that video playback (either TV or DivX) is quite jumpy.
When running media player the issue is better ,yet far from satisfying
I’m using a Gigabyte version of the 690G+x1250 on an AMD +3500. newest drivers( v8.4).
Has Anyone got an idea what can be done to improve video quality ?

Dont use Hardware encoding for H264/HD/HDTV content

If your display/TV is on HDMI, set it to 720P output.

Lots

 

[Runny]

Thanks a bunch.
Works flawlessly now.

 

[kszabo]

After struggling quite some time with WinXP I got the chance and upgraded to Vista.
It stopped freezing indeed, but not without "issues"
The problem is that video playback (either TV or DivX) is quite jumpy.
When running media player the issue is better ,yet far from satisfying
I’m using a Gigabyte version of the 690G+x1250 on an AMD +3500. newest drivers( v8.4).
Has Anyone got an idea what can be done to improve video quality ?

For me (x1250/690G Asus and Vista, AMD X2 BE-2400) works:

- Catalyst 8.3 (8.4 have issues with custom HDTV resolutions with my Pana plasma)
- as renderer VMR9 exclusive mode (with EVR picture is "jumpy")
- 50 Hz refresh rate of the graphic card (60 Hz is "jumpy"), as in Europe PAL
- video codec for TV MPG2 Cyberlink with HW Acceleration, for HDTV h.264 CoreAVC (this is all the same, x1250 cannot handle it without stuttering)
- Deinterlacing "automatic", pulldown detection on in Cytalyst CC
- 720p 50Hz through HDMI

Just play around and you will be able to get fluid picture.

 

[Angelodv]

I just tried the new ati drivers 8.5 and at this moment the skin Monochrome 1.9.800 works ok

 

[Taipan]

I just tried the new ati drivers 8.5 and at this moment the skin Monochrome 1.9.800 works ok

Is that with Windows XP or Vista?

 

[Angelodv]

Windows xp, service pack 3

Vista works great but only when switching from 1 dvd to another i always saw my desktop
for few seconds, happend with other drivers to and here they say its vista related.


Update 30-05-2008 , still no problems with the skin and the new drivers

 

[KevL]

Guys,

Does anyone know if the ATI HD3200 (680G) chipset has the same issues with FlipY commands built into the skins as the X1250 suffers? I'm tying to troubleshoot a GA-MA78GM-S2H motherboard as I'm having random crashes in the GUI?

Kev

 

[kszabo]

Guys,

Does anyone know if the ATI HD3200 (680G) chipset has the same issues with FlipY commands built into the skins as the X1250 suffers? I'm tying to troubleshoot a GA-MA78GM-S2H motherboard as I'm having random crashes in the GUI?

Kev

you mean the 780G/HD3250, I guess. The flipY problem exsits only under XP, not with Vista.

AsFarAsIKnow this onboard solution works acceptable only with Vista. Like HW-Acceleration for 1080p/i h.264 and HybridSLI works only with Vista, the driver does not support these features with XP. Because of this I tested this board only with Vista, without crashes or MP GUI freezes. I would suggest to use Vista with the newer ATi/AMD onboard setups (like x1250/690G ore HD3250/780G) and forget XP. Otherwise you will get a headache to get HD-content smooth and nice.

So flipY GUI-freeze is not the only argument (for me not even the most important) to abandon XP.