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OmniouS

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#19665 25-Feb-2008 19:39

I have just installed Vista Ultimate 64 (Legit).

Installed latest drivers for everything and it runs really well.

Only problem is the media player visualizations are really low res and very choppy in full screen mode.

The Gfx card has been rated at 5.9 and Aero/Games work fine with no lag.. Also watching 1080p movies as well with no issues. Dxdiag reports no errors and acceleration is on full

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#113083 25-Feb-2008 23:08

Windows Media Player has rubbish low res visualisations that havent been updated in 5 years. Any downloadable ones off the WMP site are rubbish too.

Or switch media players to something better if it matters. Personally i have a lyrics plugin going over the top of them so it doesnt matter.

Alternatively, try a third party program like G-Force? I've trialed G-Force and i know of someone with the full version, it makes awesome visualisations, high res too.

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#115236 7-Mar-2008 15:59

I really like G-Force. I actually fixed the problem with a MS hotfix but I wont be using those visualizations anymore ;)

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#115241 7-Mar-2008 16:15

G-Force is nice, I prefer winamp + R4. R4 has some pretty nifty visualizations however it means moving to winamp

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#115251 7-Mar-2008 16:45

Just tried that as well. It's very impressive!

I tried some of the other winamp visulizations in the past but they lagged at medium/high resolutions even though I had a semi-decent graphics card and cpu in my old comp. (and by semi-decent, I mean a GeForce 5700Q back in 2003 + Athlon 64 3200+)

It doesnt look like I have that prob anymore ;P

Im off to try some more

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#115259 7-Mar-2008 17:01

just use winamp. best music player out there. best visuals. full stop.