Zoomplayer crashes when using the new Beta drivers from Nvidea?

[TheDigster]

Hi, just wanted to let you know that I'm having some (some?) trouble playing files in Zoomplayer 2.6 final with the new beta driver from Nvidea (version 29.42).
Once I load ANY divX (AVI) it just fills up my memory 'till he's about 24mb large, and surging 98%CPU (from an 800meg machine), I let him do this for 5 minutes and Zoom didn't recover. BS doen't crash, it just starts playing without picture.
Meaby the author (forgot his name sorry) wasn't aware of this and meaby he can do anything about it (altho I'm sure it isn't Zoom that's causing the trouble, but nvidea, WMP 7 and 6.4 work both fine tho) Happened to the neighboor with same os/vga.

So basicly wanted to let everybody know that I think that the Nivea driver is responsible.
Summery/Details:
Geforce2 ti64
Win XP Prof.

Any info for me? I can always downgrade but my UT runs just too nice (oh btw. I DO love Zoomplayer so much that I would never run UT again If I had to make such a decision:))

P.p.s. Please don't fry me If I had to make a seach for this first, I have no time at the moment and 'thought' that there wouln't be any results

[Blight]

My guess is that nvidia botched something with the overlay.

WMP 7/8 uses a completely different method of displaying an image. Hopefully nvidia is smart enough to pick up on their bug quickly, but is 29.42 even an official release, or just a leak? If it's a leak, then well ... can't really expect betas to always work for you.

[TheDigster]

overlay, yea, that was the first thought thru my mind when It crashed, and mind you, I said 6.4 and 7 (not 7 and 8 -they are more or less the same right?)..

tnx blight, Love the work..

P.s. my neighboor mofo acctually got it for me, he sais it's a leak ("IT's the lastest"; as he hyped it)

[BlackSun]

Originally posted by Blight
My guess is that nvidia botched something with the overlay.

WMP 7/8 uses a completely different method of displaying an image. Hopefully nvidia is smart enough to pick up on their bug quickly, but is 29.42 even an official release, or just a leak? If it's a leak, then well ... can't really expect betas to always work for you.

Agreed, if nvidia screwed the overlay support (which is done by hardware), there are good chances that it will crash your computer. Keep in mind that beta may not perform perfectly for everybody (that's why it's in beta stage). Again I agree, nvidia is enough serious and may fix this hopefully... The default video renderer is pretty old (five year) and the new XP VMR rendere suck... Damned MS :(