Watched Cars 2 Saturday night on bluray, and I am wondering if newer blurays are becoming increasingly harder on a system for any reason? I started out watching in PowerDVD 10 and the stutter started pretty early. So I stopped and tried PowerDVD 11, and I thought it was going to be OK and then started experiencing stutter again. It’s usually brief but very annoying. I couldn’t think what was causing it, but I checked cpu useage after it was over and it was anywhere from 50% on up. So what is happening is it is maxing out the cpu at times which is causing the stutter. I updated PowerDVD 11 and there was no change in the useage. Then I updated the Catalyst drivers to 12.1 and still no change. I remember that when I watched Captain America that I had the same thing happen; the cpu useage was unusually high. But when I tried another bluray it was what I considered normal, around 10% to 25%. I have a 6570, E6600, and 2gb of RAM. Why am I starting to experience this? It really has me annoyed, and I am almost ready to just give in and get a regular bluray player.
Edit: Oh yeah, and I do have “Enable Hardware Acceleration” checked.
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