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<blockquote data-quote="Somperson" data-source="post: 153766" data-attributes="member: 19193">Obivously everyone would love these ATI/Nvidia cards to do 95% of the decoding.&nbsp; But everyone should know that these companies have bad track records with offloading the cpu.&nbsp; Some notes.. please correct me if I am wrong:Purevideo nvidia drivers require Vista at the moment and will not accelerate under XP.I hear getting x.264 to decode properly with mkv files are an issue right now.&nbsp; I think its the splitter??Quality is generally subpar to software decoding.&nbsp; The current best is FFDshow which is single-core only.&nbsp; Cyberlinke H/W decoder is buggy and CoreAVC S/W based will introduce artifacts. I am anxiously awating the ATI cards.&nbsp; But all of my files are generally mkv and I refuse to upgrade to Vista when XP is better for Mediaportal.&nbsp; If anyone has questions or comments let me know... this is a warning for those buying the new Nvidia cards.&nbsp; Check avsforum under HTPC. JPK</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Somperson, post: 153766, member: 19193"] Obivously everyone would love these ATI/Nvidia cards to do 95% of the decoding. But everyone should know that these companies have bad track records with offloading the cpu. Some notes.. please correct me if I am wrong: Purevideo nvidia drivers require Vista at the moment and will not accelerate under XP. I hear getting x.264 to decode properly with mkv files are an issue right now. I think its the splitter?? Quality is generally subpar to software decoding. The current best is FFDshow which is single-core only. Cyberlinke H/W decoder is buggy and CoreAVC S/W based will introduce artifacts. I am anxiously awating the ATI cards. But all of my files are generally mkv and I refuse to upgrade to Vista when XP is better for Mediaportal. If anyone has questions or comments let me know... this is a warning for those buying the new Nvidia cards. Check avsforum under HTPC. JPK [/QUOTE]

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