I do spend too much cash on PC hardware (yes yes, Addicted gamer :)), and loving this thing, I can't find any games that make it hurt yet, without being really mean to it at least :twisted: . tbh I only bought this rig now as the PSU in the old one had a hissy-fit and fried half of the rest of it. can get most of the parts replaced under warranties but they take so long to do it when they're not being paid...
anyway... dropped the res on both screens down to 800*600 and exactly the same results.
having read as much as I can find on these forums, I should clarify that I'm not using the Nvidia fullscreen video or similar (doesn't seem to show up in the vista drivers anyway :/ though i remember playin with it on XP), in fact the video isn't usually fullscreen on the second monitor, but alongside all sorts of other stuff (Teamspeak, reference webpages, mod data, whatever). I may be being a bit cruel to the machine to do this, but in XP it generally worked fine (Source-based games like half-life 2 were the only exceptions I can think of). But now under vista the only game I can run fullscreen alongside BSplayer is the UT3 demo. Wouldn't be surprised if other UE3-based games work too, but I don't have others to try :(.
done a few tests with other players, VLC seems to have other issues with my machine I won't go into, but windows media player seems to work fine running alongside 3D apps. No idea if BSplayer has an equivalent render-mode? though I have tried:
- all of the "internal..." modes
- VMR9 (and the renderless version)
- EVR (not noticed that before)
Though the thought of using WMP is pretty disgusting after using Bsplayer for so long :)
tbh I've no idea what the difference between these modes is. can make some rough guesses, but having never programmed with win32/directx, they're probably way wide of the mark.
EDIT:
Oh and... er... (can't believe I didn't mention this earlier) BSplayer 2.24 (build 954).... *skulks back into the corner*
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