Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: West Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.problems.pc Subject: Re: Wee Hauppauge problem... Date: 23 Apr 1998 20:44:31 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 40 Message-ID: <6ho97f$3li36@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <6hlro9$3li26@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: n8.herts.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) X-URL: news://news.playstation.co.uk/6hlro9$3li26@chuka.playstation.co.uk "Nick Ferguson" wrote: >Hi there! > >I got myself the Hauppauge Primio Model 406 (with teletext etc) and I >can run PAL and NTSC stuff in colour no problem. Excellent! The only >slight downer is that the picture doesn't look as good as it did when >run through my TV's RGB scart socket. Could this be your monitor. I have a trinitron monitor and the picture is superb. Or could it be your card as the WinTv uses your graphic card to display the picture. I use a millinium. There is definite flickering in >the picture which is quite noticable in patches of certain colours (ie >Wipeout 2097's loading screens) and I think that the frame rate is maybe >not all that great - playing certain games (especially James >Rutherford's Snowball Fight demo) leads to fairly horrific "blur" and >ghosting. Hmmm. I'm running it on an Intel P133 with 32 Megs, with a >Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 with 2MB RAM. My regular screen rez is 800x600 >at 16-bit, but I've tried 640x480 and at 24-bit on both settings. No >effect! I also tried different refresh rates - 60 to 72 Hz with similar >non-results... >The only thing I can think of is that my PC isn't quite quick enough - >do you need a ninja processor for smooth update or what? Probably true, if I remember the WinTV transfers all the data across the bus to your graphics card(correct me if I"m wrong). I use a 233MMX/32mb/millin/giga-byte mb and have eperienced no flicker whatsoever even when running Wipeout and Visual C++ at the same time in 16bit mode. I also run my card through >anything anyone can think of to improve the picture? I was a bit hacked >off with the results at first, but fiddling with the colour settings has >made things look a lot better. I just wish this little niggle could sort >itself out! I'm using an S-Video cable which has worked fine in the past >to connect the Yaroze to the PC, BTW... > Get a faster processor/video card