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- eskro - 2011-07-05

ceejay Wrote:Don't get sour. Send back the i3 and use the funds to buy a Pentium G620 and a video card. Sorted.

agreed,
you can even go for the CELERON E3400,
its still perfect for 1080P HTPC use!
will eat any XBMC skins too!


- phusebox - 2011-07-05

Well I want to use the computer later on for more than just xbmc, that's why I chose the i3.

Besides there are no good HD6570 cards with passive cooling.


- thespecialist - 2011-07-05

Please use this dll instead of the one posted below, I saw I made a small error there:

http://www.speedyshare.com/files/29293622/.libs.rar

Again, only for intel and only for 10.1 official release.


- phusebox - 2011-07-05

Jep sorry, I will edit my post.


- XBMCRocksMyBoat - 2011-07-05

Can anyone confirm that this dll works? Can I cancel my HD 6570? (I can not try it before tonight)...


- phusebox - 2011-07-05

Sorry I have read on some other forum that it doesn't seem to be working.


- XBMCRocksMyBoat - 2011-07-05

I don't understand that no developer seems to be busy with this issue.

Just built my HTPC (Core i3 2100T) last week. And I built it mainly for XBMC usage. It is a HUGE disappointment for me that this doesn't work. I'll probably just get a HD6570 for now, and hope they will fix this soon (then I will put the HD6570 in my other PC).


- phusebox - 2011-07-05

XBMCRocksMyBoat Wrote:I don't understand that no developer seems to be busy with this issue.

Just built my HTPC (Core i3 2100T) last week. And I built it mainly for XBMC usage. It is a HUGE disappointment for me that this doesn't work. I'll probably just get a HD6570 for now, and hope they will fix this soon (then I will put the HD6570 in my other PC).

Same here, I ordered my hardware yesterday morning, and later I found out about this issue. Will just disable hardware acceleration for the time being. No cash left for a videocard.


- meridius - 2011-07-05

meridius Wrote:just out of interest how do you turn on HW aceleration for ATI or Intel gfx ? for xbmc

anyone ?


- XBMCRocksMyBoat - 2011-07-05

meridius Wrote:anyone ?

Enable this option:
System->Video->Playback->Allow Hardware Acceleration (DXVA 2)


- gyrene2083 - 2011-07-05

Seems with all this trouble with the i3, I'll just stick with my current setup, or use AMD.


- StartCodon - 2011-07-08

thespecialist Wrote:Please use this dll instead of the one posted below, I saw I made a small error there:

http://www.speedyshare.com/files/29293622/.libs.rar

Again, only for intel and only for 10.1 official release.
Apologies for the noobish question, but where exactly would I put these dlls?


- a11599 - 2011-07-08

phusebox Wrote:Besides there are no good HD6570 cards with passive cooling.

What is considered "good"? Smile This one works great for me.


- accountabc - 2011-07-10

orion2001 Wrote:Are you sure your thermals are in check and the CPU isn't being throttled? I have a 2100t and haven't had any issues so far without HW acceleration. I still want HW acceleration as I hate the HSF that comes with the 2100t as it is loud and makes a high pitched whine. I have it set to idle at the lowest setting (completely silent), but without HW accel, temps go up and the HSF is audible.

Using MPC-HC with DXVA on the other hand keeps things perfectly silent during playback, and temps are much lower on the whole.

Sorry for the late response. Kinda lost track of this topic since there are quite a few out there. But to answer your question: yes, i'm quite sure the CPU isn't being throttled. I haven't checked temps, but I instead of the 2100t stock cooler I used the cooler that comes with the 2500k (which is nice and quiet most of the time). Most videos play fine, but I have a few with quite high bitrates. A 25GB rip of Avatar drops frames quite often for instance. I'm not the only one in this thread with this problem. I discovered Xbmc uses just one core for decoding video. The 2100t doesn't have turbo, so I think that's the reason why frames are dropped sometimes in high bitrate scenes.

Right now I am looking at ways to work around this problem. The only option I have found so far is using an external player. I'm trying to get MPC-HC to change the refresh rate to 23.976, but somehow that won't work. 24.000 does. I know SB has 24p issues, but I also know XBMC manages to output 23.98hz. Somehow MPC-HC won't do that... Orion2001 (or anyone else), did you run into this problem?

If I manage to get this to work, there is still one (for me) mayor issue. I just realized the XBMC menus won't work when using an external player (doh...). This means the XBMC subitle addon (which I use a lot) won't work... Anyone knows a way around this?


- Mallet21 - 2011-07-10

accountabc Wrote:Right now I am looking at ways to work around this problem. The only option I have found so far is using an external player. I'm trying to get MPC-HC to change the refresh rate to 23.976, but somehow that won't work. 24.000 does. I know SB has 24p issues, but I also know XBMC manages to output 23.98hz. Somehow MPC-HC won't do that... Orion2001 (or anyone else), did you run into this problem?

Make sure UAC is turned off within Win7....Otherwise a new intel driver update is supposedly in the works that should fix the issue.