8700m nvidia GPU and blu-ray drivers??

[gleep52]

I'm running 64bit vista ultimate and have a Dell XPS M1730 laptop which sports dual 8700 nvidia cards in SLI config...

My problem is - with PowerDVD 7.3 - it keeps telling me my video drivers are incompatible and will not play my discs. I've done some researching and found from this forum that Cyberlink has specific hardware models of video cards hard coded into their software (How STUPID is that??) so even though my hardware can technically run it (T7700 processor) - it can't due to a limited engineering software glitch.

Is there a work around to the incompatible driver issue? Can I use some other type of program or player? I've tried the trial of AnyDVD 6.3 which lets me playback blu-ray with the old microsoft 8700m drivers, but those drivers do not allow SLI and none of my games even load - they just pretend to load and go to a black screen...

Thus I'm hoping someone here has some advice on how to get blu-ray to playback in 64bit vista.

(Heck in 32bit vista it still didn't work unless I got the drivers from microsoft or Dell - which the latest dell drivers still didn't play any recent games well, nor would it allow output on the DVI port (even though every piece of hardware I have is HDCP complaint.) this "copy protection" mahlarky is really a waste of time - but I'll save that for another forum.

Any pointers? TIA!

[Dark Shikari]

I'm running 64bit vista ultimate and have a Dell XPS M1730 laptop which sports dual 8700 nvidia cards in SLI config...

My problem is - with PowerDVD 7.3 - it keeps telling me my video drivers are incompatible and will not play my discs. I've done some researching and found from this forum that Cyberlink has specific hardware models of video cards hard coded into their software (How STUPID is that??) so even though my hardware can technically run it (T7700 processor) - it can't due to a limited engineering software glitch. Its not a glitch, its entirely intentional. This is what you get for using an operating system with Digital Restrictions Management :p

[gleep52]

Come on now - I know these forums are much more helpful than a statement like that...

Yes I use Vista - XP is just too old - I like new... and finding the "fixes" to new things... :)

I'm also downloading the Total Media Extreme Trial I found from the forums here too... but I figure if it's a driver problem - do I soley rely on nVidia to fix it? We all know how reliable THAT would be... :eek:

[Dark Shikari]

Come on now - I know these forums are much more helpful than a statement like that...I was being serious. You're using an operating system designed to stop you from being able to freely view your movies without having the exact right combination of drivers to make Microsoft happy. It is not "nVidia's fault."

[gleep52]

As an update - the Total Media Extreme Trial actually plays back the video - but my CPU is around 60-100% and sometimes lags and skips frames so it's obviously not using any of the hardware acceleration...

Using the japanese menus is pretty difficult for me, though it appears to be VERY similar to PowerDVD... so I've found that anything over 21mbps makes it lag... anything less than that plays back fine.

The hard part of all this is - Dell doesn't offer 64bit support - so they won't produce a video driver - nvidia doesn't offer laptop or "mobile" support - so who do I go to or get a driver from that is certified? Microsoft?? *sighs* They can't help anyone...

[gleep52]

Yes I know all about Vista and it's "issues" with DRM BS :)

I'm asking why no one has found a solution yet?? Or if they have - what is it? I can't believe no one has found a solution after a year of it's release and another half a year to beta testing... is it just because they made it SO complex?? Crap like this would be smacked into billions of bits of code in a few seconds in XP :)

What's the deal?

[gleep52]

Also - are you suggesting that if I used XP all my problems would disappear? :)

[gleep52]

BTW, if I roll back my driver to the non-gaming version a few things happen:

1) PowerDVD Ultra plays fine (everything is kosher with the DRM aspect of things) :)
2) The CPU utilization is anywhere from 9% to 60% athe most... and there is absolutely no lag. So I know the hardware is capable of it... but ARGH what's the deal!?

I know - I'm just aiming a gun into space aren't I? Won't do me any good to post here... no one has a solution to this do they... *sighs*

[Shinigami-Sama]

they're working on getting acceleration working with halii's splitter last I checked

[edit]

oh yeah and I agree 100% with dark
its what you get for using something that was designed with someone other than the consumer in mind
with luck and some time we'll have acceleration on all OSes within a year or so

[foxyshadis]

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ < current drivers

Nvidia even WHQL signs them now, so you don't have to go in and reset the policy restricting unsigned drivers. Both companies make notebook drivers, they just claim not to on their main sites.