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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jameson_uk" data-source="post: 294020" data-attributes="member: 11220">There wont be as too many variables.I have an Intel E4500 with an ATI 3650 card.  Playback of H264 material when hardware acceleration is working means something like 10% CPU.  Without hardware acceleration this jumps to 70%.To get hardware acceleration you need to meet several criteria but mainly you need a card that can do the decoding and a codec that will ask the card to decode it (the powerDVD ones seem to do this quite well).  If you have both of these and are still not seeing hardware acceleration then this gets a little more tricky...</blockquote>