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I had installed XBMC Live 9.04 on my Aspire Revo a few months ago, and it would play everything except 1080p files perfectly. When playing them, it would either be jerky, or the picture would slow up and speed down every few seconds. Wasn't seeing a huge number of dropped frames, but some.
I upgraded to 9.11, and am still seeing the same behaviour.
I haven't upgraded anything else - could my graphics drivers be the issue? And if so, how can I upgrade them?
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Did you add a second stick of ram, or is it just a single 1 GB stick?
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Still just 1GB RAM, haven't got round to upgrading it yet.
Could anyone tell me briefly how to upgrade my graphics drivers (bearing in mind I'm using XBMC Live). I will post a debug log later, but would like to upgrade drivers first.
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Jamie, you might try the guide in my signature, it should get you to smooth 1080p.
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Thanks myrison - I initially went through your guide, but I found that I could get all 720p stuff to play fine by simply changing TripleBuffer to true. I'm thinking of putting another 1GB RAM in tonight to see if that helps, as I've heard a couple of people say it enabled them to play 1080p fine...
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Yes, that was my understanding too, thanks.
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It also runs your ram in a dual channel interleaved mode, which is faster. This (and changing the frame buffer size to 512 MB) should solve the issue.
