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<blockquote data-quote="muppetman" data-source="post: 951435" data-attributes="member: 131063"><p>Hi,</p><p> </p><p>Newbie here, so please go easy on me....I've been a Windows Media Centre user for about 6 years and have converted our "box under the telly" to MP over the last three months - I love it!</p><p> </p><p>System specs are in my profile, but basically I'm running s singleseat install on a Z77 motherboard with Intel i3, HD3000 and OCZ Vertex 3 SSD as the boot drive with 8gb - pretty good spec for an HTPC. Clean install of MP with StreamedMP, latest drivers, bios etc. I should also add that this machine is only used for MP, nothing else.</p><p> </p><p>Firstly, I'm more than happy with all aspects of video playback - I've only installed the LAV pack and quality of playback of all sources (Freeview HD, Freesat HD, MKVs, DVD/BD rips, recorded TV) is great - no glitches or breakup on any of the sources (something I was never able to achieve with Media Centre with the HD channels!) Most of our use of this box is interlaced 1080 TV content, and it all looks great on our 60" LCD!</p><p> </p><p>So why am I posting?....Well, the one issue I do have with my system is that the menus are "laggy" - not all of them, but specifically when there is a lot of graphic detail on the menu - a good example of this is the tv-series plugin, I've got the TV series' showing as coverflow with 1080 res background images for each series - if you hold the right arrow key down on the remote, the scrolling is very slow whilst the system redraws the background image before moving to the next series etc. If I change the view to list format, the scrolling is extremely fast.</p><p>I've also noticed that if a tv-series is paused etc and it goes to the scrolling text description of the series, the scrolling is jerky.</p><p> </p><p>I'm guessing that my problem is down to using on-board graphics (Intel HD3000) - I'm happy to be told otherwise if you think it's something else. I'm thinking this as CPU utilisation doesn't seem to be spiking etc. on going into any of these menu screens.</p><p> </p><p>Initially, I was reluctant to upgarde the graphics card as I've always had issues with driver versions on previous Media Centre installations (both ATI and Nvidia), hence going back to onboard graphics a couple of years ago when they improved. Also the power/heat/noise etc., is a consideration as our box is on pretty much 24/7. However, the laggy menus are now bugging me too much!</p><p> </p><p>So after my long-winded post, my question is, what specs do I need to be looking for in a graphics card to speed up the menu browsing? I don't mind spending some cash if I need to, but I don't want to go overboard as it'll cost more, but more iumportantly will probably bring increased power or cooling requirements (so preferably want to go fanless card if poss)</p><p> </p><p>Thanks for reading my ramblings!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muppetman, post: 951435, member: 131063"] Hi, Newbie here, so please go easy on me....I've been a Windows Media Centre user for about 6 years and have converted our "box under the telly" to MP over the last three months - I love it! System specs are in my profile, but basically I'm running s singleseat install on a Z77 motherboard with Intel i3, HD3000 and OCZ Vertex 3 SSD as the boot drive with 8gb - pretty good spec for an HTPC. Clean install of MP with StreamedMP, latest drivers, bios etc. I should also add that this machine is only used for MP, nothing else. Firstly, I'm more than happy with all aspects of video playback - I've only installed the LAV pack and quality of playback of all sources (Freeview HD, Freesat HD, MKVs, DVD/BD rips, recorded TV) is great - no glitches or breakup on any of the sources (something I was never able to achieve with Media Centre with the HD channels!) Most of our use of this box is interlaced 1080 TV content, and it all looks great on our 60" LCD! So why am I posting?....Well, the one issue I do have with my system is that the menus are "laggy" - not all of them, but specifically when there is a lot of graphic detail on the menu - a good example of this is the tv-series plugin, I've got the TV series' showing as coverflow with 1080 res background images for each series - if you hold the right arrow key down on the remote, the scrolling is very slow whilst the system redraws the background image before moving to the next series etc. If I change the view to list format, the scrolling is extremely fast. I've also noticed that if a tv-series is paused etc and it goes to the scrolling text description of the series, the scrolling is jerky. I'm guessing that my problem is down to using on-board graphics (Intel HD3000) - I'm happy to be told otherwise if you think it's something else. I'm thinking this as CPU utilisation doesn't seem to be spiking etc. on going into any of these menu screens. Initially, I was reluctant to upgarde the graphics card as I've always had issues with driver versions on previous Media Centre installations (both ATI and Nvidia), hence going back to onboard graphics a couple of years ago when they improved. Also the power/heat/noise etc., is a consideration as our box is on pretty much 24/7. However, the laggy menus are now bugging me too much! So after my long-winded post, my question is, what specs do I need to be looking for in a graphics card to speed up the menu browsing? I don't mind spending some cash if I need to, but I don't want to go overboard as it'll cost more, but more iumportantly will probably bring increased power or cooling requirements (so preferably want to go fanless card if poss) Thanks for reading my ramblings! [/QUOTE]
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