Guys,
I installed MCE2004 and had no problems as all worked fine with my Matrox G400 graphics card. However, on upgrade to MCE2005, I now get this message:
"Your video card or drivers are not compatible with Media Center"
In addition, it no longer shows transitions or plays video/DVD content, whilst before all worked? Any ideas?
If is a known problem:
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http://www.xpmce.com/forum/ftopic43573.html)
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http://xpmce.com/forum/ftopic43573.html)
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http://xpmce.com/forum/ftopic40450.html)
From Microsoft:
MCE 2005 uses the VMR-9 for rendering, while MCE 2004 used VMR-7. In turn,
VMR-7 used DirectDraw functions to display the video, while VMR-9 uses
Direct3D for video.
Old display drivers may not expose the required video surfaces through
Direct3D. E.g. some (very!) old NVIDIA drivers did not expose Direct3D YUV
surfaces and thus would not work with VMR-9.
Also, the drivers probably MUST be DirectX 9 drivers. Run DXDIAG and check
on the "Display" tab if it really says: "DDI Version: 9 (or higher)". If
the number is lower than 9, your display driver is not a DirectX 9 driver.
Anyone know how to work around these problems???
Hawk