Guide Wanted - Set-up of PAL Tv-Out with a Geforce 5600FX

[kilg0r3]

... on an AMD via KT266A system. My main problem is jerky/jittery output which alternates with fluent output about every two minutes or so.

Note, I am just looking for pointer in the right direction because Google gave a heapt of useless trash. Thank you very much in advance

[Mnl]

Hi-

There might be som info you can use in this thread:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?threadid=71997

I know that this thread deals with older cards (the geforce MX series), but still some of the information may be usefull to you - despite the fact that the article linked to in the second post is really long :)

Also you might want to give TVTool (www.tvtool.de) a shot.

The main problem with tv-out on Nvidia cards is that the quality varies very much. This is caused by the fact that the different manufacturers can choose between a wide range of different tv-out-chips. I dont know a lot about the FX series, but I think that most manufacturers use the in-built tv-out feature of the GPU.

hth, Mnl

[GrofLuigi]

Originally posted by kilg0r3
... on an AMD via KT266A system. My main problem is jerky/jittery output which alternates with fluent output about every two minutes or so.

You might want to try George Breese's PCI latency patch http://www.georgebreese.com/net/software/#PCI (but be VERY careful as this is potentially dangerous).

Don't know if that is your problem, but I personally would apply it on every VIA chipset just in case (for better performance in general).

Of course, latest motherboard (and every other) drivers could not hurt.

GL

[kilg0r3]

@ GrofLuigi
Well I admit this _was_ one of my problems until I installed the patch today. :D I finally could lower my PCI latency to 16 from 48, which definitely was not a good value. Thank you. I had heard about this patch but after reading about some people having problems with it .... and then forgot.