Comments for: The GeForce 6800's video processor is broken

#28. Posted at 03:24 AM on Nov 2nd 2004, Edited at 03:27 AM on Nov 2nd 2004

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Brap

After the FX,we get a 6800 that works,well almost...

nVidia should work on their hardware instead of throw mud at ATI.

#27. Posted at 01:50 PM on Oct 31st 2004

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leftiszi

THEY CANNOT BE SERIOUS ABOUT THIS! What the hell is going on in this stupid world we live in? Refund or free replacement is a must if all of this turn out to be true! That's the reason i bought this stupid card. Not to play DOOM3!

#25. Posted at 11:04 AM on Oct 29th 2004

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deadsoulz

This is one of the main reasons I bought one a 6800GT, I wanted it to help offload some of my video work, with my Digital Camcorder, They fully advertised this before launch, and stated it as a feature, I want a free replacement with the functionality working!

#4. Posted at 12:06 PM on Oct 27th 2004, Edited at 12:07 PM on Oct 27th 2004

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spuppy

More info

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19314

#4, Which basically says the 6800 can only do MPEG acceleration.... : hmmm (#5) «

#5, When did NVIDIA say they would accelerate WMV though? I d... : spuppy (#6) «

#5, I emailed Fudo with the exact same sentiment. The NVDA re... : kvndoom (#7) «

#5, Sounds alot like the Radeon 8500 and trilinear/anisotropi... : derFunkenstein (#12) «

#5, I thought NVDVD came with all new nvidia cards? Maybe it'... : apsog33 (#14) «

#14, I believe it's a system OEM/card OEM thing. A few of t... : indeego (#15) «

#5, If you look at what else is available on the market, I th... : Palek (#24) «

#23. Posted at 11:10 PM on Oct 27th 2004, Edited at 11:13 PM on Oct 27th 2004

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bodom81

Note: Certain features of the on-chip video processor will be implemented in a future NVIDIA driver release

http://www.nvidia.com/object/feature_on-chip-video.html

Whish they would say what features exactly will be implemented.....

#8. Posted at 12:43 PM on Oct 27th 2004, Edited at 12:56 PM on Oct 27th 2004

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spworley

Is WMV or even MPG hardware acceleration really so important? Playing a DVD quality MPG or WMV takes less than 10% of my (AthlonXP 3000+) CPU. No big deal. Hardware video decoding was important back in the days of the Pentium II where it took a bigger fraction of the CPU power, but who cares, today?

My only thought is that perhaps the hardware decode would simply be to decrease stuttering and skips during the times the CPU load does go to 100% when you're multitasking with a high priority process.

To me, the hardware decode is an ignorable feature, I'd prefer them to remove it and lower the price $2.

Edit: I tried playing an HDTV clip.. it did go to 60% CPU. OK, I see the use. :-)

Edit 2: Looks like the processor does work, but needs the proper drivers. I wonder if it just doesn't work as well as they hoped? Look at http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/geforce6600gt-theory...

#8, Ah, but what about hardware encoding. That's the good stuff ... : highlandr (#9) «

#8, http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/content_provid... : sjankech (#19) «

#19, Not when your CPU is at 100% usage, then your GPU will ne... : albundy (#21) «

#19, Wow my Athlon Mobile at 2.4 Ghz was 70% used to play an 1... : DukenukemX (#22) «

#13. Posted at 03:21 PM on Oct 27th 2004, Edited at 03:22 PM on Oct 27th 2004

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Krogoth

(Tsk, tsk, tsk)Nvidia has messed up their HTPC market sales for the NV40 series with it's flaw in the silicon. Then again how much of the market do HTPC users comprised of? Maybe only around 10%. This problem is really a non-issue for most 6800 and 6600 users who are gamers at heart but, occationally encode/decode videos.

Nvidia's Personal Cinema line is still inferior to ATI's AIW line with features and drivers. Now with this flaw in the silicon the future for NV40, NV41 and NV43 for them to be utillized in Personal Cinema line is very bleak.

Then again slows again the great difficulty chip architechs have to endure with today's insanity complex-chips. It's virtually impossible to make something work without issues that weights a hefy 220 million transitiors. AMD and Intel both have minior flaws with their latest chips. I'll sure ATI's R420 has some minior gltiches within the it's silicon that hardly anybody takes noitce.

#13, I think the market share for HTPC cards is much much lower t... : emkubed (#20) «

#18. Posted at 06:08 PM on Oct 27th 2004

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YeuEmMaiMai

just another reason not to buy a Nvidia product.

#11. Posted at 01:22 PM on Oct 27th 2004

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Ryszard

Would it be possible to include NV30 and NV35/38 in the analysis too? If only for an interesting MPEG2 baseline. I'm sure your analysis will make their inclusion worthwhile, if you're digging in the MPEG2 direction too.

#10. Posted at 01:14 PM on Oct 27th 2004

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opinionated

It would be nice if the video card could help out with my mpeg2 to wmv conversions. That takes a lot of cpu power for a long time.

#3. Posted at 11:21 AM on Oct 27th 2004

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Gandhi

So I guess this is an issue when HDTV becomes more popular/cheaper? I am asking this because I have an ATI 9800 AIW and love is as far as standard TV is concerned, but was thinking of switching to NVIdia. I guess I will just wait for ATI to come out with a AIW version of their R500 card. By then I will probably switch to A64-Socket 939 and PCI-E

#2. Posted at 11:16 AM on Oct 27th 2004

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Convert

How serious can it be? I mean it just affects video playback correct?

#1. Posted at 11:15 AM on Oct 27th 2004, Edited at 11:28 AM on Oct 27th 2004

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nihilistcanada

Oops!
Sad really, for me the only compelling reason to switch to Nvidia over ATI. Makes sense though as their has been no mention of this feature since the launch. But then they probably new it was messed up then anyway.