Warning: Blu-ray Rom Player For Slow Machines...

[odd_function]

WARNING: DO NOT INSTALL a Blu-ray drive on a low spec machine.
You machine will suffer. I *Stupidly* install a Blu-ray drive on a pc running 1gig of ram 128 Mb vid card running Vista and, then installed PowerDVD 7 Ultra...everything looked like it was gonna work then I played , the picture and sound were seriously choppy it played for 3 secs then hiccup I decided to see what was going on in taskmanager and powerDVD.exe was using 97-99% CPU so, I was thinking: "this is not gonna work" before I know it I'm greeded with the dreeded BSOD on my monitor and, I had to unplug the power cable for the pc, from the electrical outlet to starover...yeah. I learn my lesson Blu-ray needs a serious machine to handle it with good specs. :bang:

[oldjoe]

"Vista" is the problem. 1GB of RAM is barely enough for the OS. Other concerns might be the graphics card or even the PSU.

[DrinkLyeAndDie]

"Vista" is the problem. 1GB of RAM is barely enough for the OS. Other concerns might be the graphics card or even the PSU.

Beyond that, how low-end is the video card? 128 MB of onboard memory? Ugh. The entire load of decoding is being thrown at the CPU most likely and, yes, 1 GB of system memory is abysmal. It's not shocking this doesn't work.

[Clams]

If it was an XP system witha 256m video card and 1gb on the system, it would stand a chance of working. But Vista on a machine like that is using too much. I'll bet if you put XP on it (and run it lean) and get a Nvida 8xxx card with 256 on board that it could well work for you.

-W

[odd_function]

If it was an XP system witha 256m video card and 1gb on the system, it would stand a chance of working. But Vista on a machine like that is using too much. I'll bet if you put XP on it (and run it lean) and get a Nvida 8xxx card with 256 on board that it could well work for you.

-W

I feel sorry for anyone that buys a pc with vista on it with 1 gig of ram...thats just wrong to sell people something like that :D

[Fernando]

It's just wrong to sell PCs to some people at all.

My two cents. :)

[sej7278]

It's just wrong to sell PCs to some people at all.

My two cents. :)

yeah i think i'm with you on that mate!

seriously, doesn't everyone know that vista+bluray needs some serious hardware? like a decent graphics card, at least 2gb ram, at least 2ghz core2duo.....

the other day a friend gave me her pc to fix as it wouldn't load the internet although outlook still worked (yeah you have to decode that as firefox wouldn't load). anyway, turns out she's running xp on a 192mb machine, hell windows barely loaded, and seeing how firefox itself needs about 100mb.... i told her to get back to me when she quadrupled the ram :bang:

[stirling]

If it was an XP system witha 256m video card and 1gb on the system, it would stand a chance of working. But Vista on a machine like that is using too much. I'll bet if you put XP on it (and run it lean) and get a Nvida 8xxx card with 256 on board that it could well work for you.

-W

I got so frustrated :bang: with Vista's performance that I updated my computer to XP. And now it runs fast. :rock: Vista is just bloatware, loaded with features that almost nobody can use anyway.

[mike_r]

Blu-ray needs a serious machine to handle it with good specs.

I disagree. I've got blu-ray working very comfortably on a 8 year old DELL 4400 (P4 2.4ghz, 1gb PC2700, AGPx4, 170W PSU, XP SP3). The trick was an ASUS AH3650 & Catalyst 8.10 with PowerDVD 8.2217u.

[eRider]

It's just wrong to sell PCs to some people at all.

My two cents. :)

Couldn't agree with you more there Fernando :D