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Just registered to let you know that I suffer from the same problem.
* i5 760 1st gen
* GTX 950
* W10 (updated last week, when the problem started)
* Kodi 15.2
Changing to full software does seem to have fixed the problem. But that means no more h265 decoding (one of the reasons I just upgraded my GPU). So next I will be trying the fresh install of the drivers. It's a pretty clean install of my drivers, too (I just plugged in the new card a couple of days ago), so if this works for me, it might be worth a shot for LarrxX as well...
This post mainly to make sure there is enough awareness around this issue.
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Just an update:
I rolled back to the 358.50 (using DDU to first clean and turn off automatic update of drivers by windows), and am now running pretty stable with hardware accelleration enabled.
So yeah, that seems like a solution.
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Thanks for this info now i can rewind and forward again. What is the downside of this method to change the gfx acceleration?
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2015-12-19, 21:50
(This post was last modified: 2015-12-19, 21:50 by Chronix.)
Well, as I understood it, with content up to 1080p on h264, you'll probably do fine with just software decoding. I think most systems can do so without much problem. But when talking about 4k content, it gets messy and low- to midrange cpu's, like my first-gen i5 will probably no longer cut it. The standard will most likely become h265 and a GPU like my 960 GTX has hardware support for that. So it can take over the load that my CPU would be incapable of handling.
I'm sure there are folk here who can contradict me on that, tho, so don't take my word for it just yet. Thing is that if you don't notice any degrading in image quality or choppy framerates when watching fullHD content, you're probably fine just using software decoding.
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2015-12-20, 00:30
(This post was last modified: 2015-12-20, 00:33 by LarrxX.)
...and now I'm having crashes even in software decoding after the latest Win10 update! :'( Crashes occurring during play, even without displaying the OSD! It's much much worse than before!
So now I'm using VLC and it's working flawlessly. Guess I'll have to bite the bullet until this gets fixed.
Rolling back to an old GPU driver is out of the question for me since I use the same machine for gaming...
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Hello from Italy,
my first post in this forum to confirm the same issue in my PC (i5 4690k / GTX 970 ) after Windows 10 1511 update.
With any video, it freeze with no possibility to switch to desktop to kill the Kodi process ... some times it freeze all the whole PC, in both case I need to restart the PC in order to continue.
Acceleration in hardware ... after reading these posts, I will try some update .... but I suppose that there is no solution at the moment.
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I am also facing the same problem. It only appeared after the Win10 Big Update. I also have a GTX970.
Tried turning off hardware acceleration. Will test it for a while.
Thank you!
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There is a way (bug traking) to officially notify this bug to the Kodi team ?
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