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    Hardware Video Encoding Greyed out when using nVIDIA Drivers

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by Spartan@HIDevolution, Dec 31, 2014.

  1. Spartan@HIDevolution

    Spartan@HIDevolution Company Representative

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    When Using the Alienware Drivers 320.70, I can see the Hardware acceleration for Video Encoding enabled in my Splash Player Pro

    But if I use the latest 347.09 it becomes greyed out. I even tried Mr. Fox's modified driver but still the same.

    Now I don't really care about Splash Player's ability to encode videos but I am worried that the latest drivers actually have this feature missing? I probably would notice the same thing if I used Nero Recode to convert videos.

    I even tried the driver from the Alienware 13 which is a bit newer 340.84 but it's also greyed out. Only the driver under my service tag activates that feature

    What gives?

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    Spartan@HIDevolution, Dec 31, 2014
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  2. TBoneSan

    TBoneSan Laptop Fiend

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    j95 does a mod here that activates Cuda support. Have a look at some of his posts.
    Sorry I cant link you on my phone.
     
    TBoneSan, Dec 31, 2014
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    So I copied nvcuvenc32.dl_ & nvcuvenc64.dl_ from the nvcuvenc.dll_latest_v338.10 folder of his mod and pasted it in Display.Driver folder of the 347.09 Driver then installed the drivers doing a "Clean Installation" from the custom setup, the moment the driver was installed, the hardware acceleration tab was greyed out. I restarted but still no luck :(

    Why on earth would nVIDIA disable such a great feature! Their driver support has become horrible with many buggy drivers compared to the past
     
    Spartan@HIDevolution, Dec 31, 2014
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  4. Mr. Fox

    Mr. Fox BGA Filth-Hating Elitist®

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    Simply dropping those files is not enough. You'll need j95's INF mod and then reinstall the drivers to get the registry entries needed to use them.
     
    Mr. Fox, Dec 31, 2014
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    wrext0r Notebook Geek

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    Is there any reason why cuda is disabled with the latest nvidia drivers? I can use cude only with the dell driver but in that case physx is disabled...

    Gesendet von meinem Nexus 5
     
    wrext0r, Jan 5, 2015
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    I still am at a loss on what to do on this

    Someone help me over TeamViewer please I'm a n00bie whith this nVIDIA Driver installation stuff
     
    Spartan@HIDevolution, Jan 5, 2015
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