I would like to know if hardware acceleration is needed/recommended for 1080p material. I ve read several post where HW acc. is discussed and is truly recommended for 1080i based material. However, I only watch 1080p content so is HW acc. really needed or even does have effect on the PQ or CPU reduction? I m using a Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2,67GHz 4Mb CPU and have a 7600GS PCI-e card which has HW acc. support.
how strange... why would someone recommend not to use hardware acceleration as a rule...? what 'use hardware acceleration' means is 'use my GPU, not my CPU' - or in plain english, 'make the videocard do the work that it was designed specifically to do so that the processor (which would have to blag it by doing it in software anyway) can do other things.' whilst your processor may handle the graphics work happily, without H/W acceleration your videocard is sat their doing nothing. the only time not to use hardware acceleration is when you have problems (incompatable games, corrupt video files, etc)...
