HD DVD Simulator on laptop

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HD DVD Simulator on laptop

I was trying the HD DVD Simulator on a laptop it runs but when any sample is loaded it doesn't display anything. Could it be that the simulator doesn't work on a (low) resolution of 1024x768

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HD DVD Simulator on laptop

  • mdg421

    Ah yes. Intel video drivers don't support "NV12" format bitmaps, and iHDSim requires that.

  • pompeyjohn

    I'll bet it is your video card. I tried running HDiSim on two not so new laptops with no luck (right after the Sim was released).  The window would open up but nothing would play.  I bought a new laptop with a current generation video card and it runs great.


  • shauntu

    Check how much video RAM you have (via DXDiag). My laptop has a paltry 16M of VRAM, which means iHDSim only works when the window is really small (resize the window before loading a playlist). The error handling/reporting when vram expires is, um, mostly missing. You get no video display, which sounds like your scenario.

  • smalamas

    Thanks for the info, it must be my intel graphics card' which can't handle it.
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