ASUS G73SW Owners' Lounge

Hello guys I need your help again,

I mentioned before that I had a keyboard back-light problem. I tried everything from installing the newer version of the ATK driver, still the keyboard won't light up even after pressing Fn+F4! Great. *grumble*

My next option was opening up the keyboard through its five slots. I tried pressing them with a screwdriver and the keyboard won't pop out - another headache. It seems to be zealously taped. So I have to find another way. Can I access the keyboard by opening the palm rest panel? And how do I do that? If not, is there an alternative way to access the keyboard? Thanks a lot!

 

No hardware RAID... Sorry. Otherwise though it's an awesome rig!

 

Jahim, does the keyboard light flash when you turn on the computer?

 

Hello JOSEA,

Nope, the keyboard doesn't flash when I turn on the computer. So there must be something wrong with it, maybe a loose cable perhaps.

 

I watched a video on this and for sure, that is taped down real good; I think they even bent it a little. It was on Youtube I think but can't find it right now. http://youtu.be/Tp90M_N6dzs

There are some pictures here, but not really much on the keyboard. http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/475907-asus-g73-series-disassembly-guide-4.html

 

You can use software raid in Windows though, provided you have Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate. For boot drives it only works in raid 1 (mirrored), but if you have 3 drives (one in the optical bay), you can use raid 0 for drives 2 and 3. Dynamic disks are actually faster than most BIOS raid setups.

Dynamic Disk Partition Management and Extend, Shrink, Resize Dynamic Volume.

 

There is no other way to get at the keyboard. Just gently pry the double sided tape with your hands, and you won't bend the keyboard. See the links posted by The_Snowman.

 

If you have two HDDs and make two identically sized partitions (one on each HDD), you can RAID0 those partitions into a single faster one (and twice the size). It can't be used as a boot partition, though.

(Well, there MIGHT be a way to use it as a boot partition by using VHD booting, but this would disable hibernation in Windows, which is a rather useful thing to have on a laptop.)

 

Can someone please post the model number and brand of the 3D LCD in the 3d version of the g73sw? I currently own the one with the 1080p lcd but it has bad pixels, so I was thinking of upgrading to the 3d lcd, instead of sending it back for repair.

 

@concussion If it's the same panel as the G73Jw-3DE it's LGD02C5

http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...cs-pre-ordering-available-13.html#post6933096

 

Hey guys, I'm gonna pick-up myself a G73sw real soon, and I have a question about upgrading its networking capabilities...
Is its WiFi card 450 megabits/sec capable?
I am considering upgrading to an Intel 6300 Ultimate-N WiFi half-pci card and a set of WiFi/bluetooth antennae (the card requires 3 antennae)
Furthermore iz there space for a third antenna in the screen panel?
I'd have to install these on my itty-bitty own! Insight much appreciated

 

Thanks man.

 

@Beowülf the stock ralink Atheros AR9285 is a 150Mbps card.

 

i tried to load 275.27, but it said the hardware wasn't valid??

mark

non-3D machine

 

The sound on the G73SW, is the best thing to uninstall THX? ..

I think the sound is ok with internal speakers but its annoying to open thx everytime i connect headphones to change mode.

Because it sounds like crap when its on "laptop speakers" in headphones

 

Thanks...and yikes! That means it utilizes only one antenna, no? Bad news for my NAS setup at home, iz the Bluetooth module integrated with the Atheros card?

 

Same question.

Is the X-Fi software better than THX?

Nope, it's separate.

 

Single stream does not mean single antenna. It has two antennas stock but a third can be added later if you get a 3 antenna card.

 

Be aware that just upgrading to the 3DE panel won't give you 3D capability - you still need the Nvidia 3D Vision kit, and unlike the 3DE model, you won't have a built-in sync transmitter for the 3D glasses. You do get a fast panel that's matte however.

Correct. Xoticpc for instance will install a 6300 plus extra antenna if you order one with the laptop. A different problem is the lack of good 450 mbps capable routers, so the extra antenna would most likely go to waste for now unless you happen to have one.

 

Sorry my post was a bit unclear, basically the turbo boost gadget, both v1.1 and v2.0 were not showing any "boosting" going on at all. Not just with prime95, but with games and programs and all sorts. It would continuosly remain at 2ghz, or on cpu-z it would appear even lower as it begins idleing. I know that turbo boost cannot boost all 4 core simultaneosly, but i had noticed that i was getting considerably less FPS ingame due to turbo boost not functioning properly.... I also was wondering why the stock bios menu is so limited. There should be a menu setting to disable and enable turbo boost... Anyway the turbo boost function starter working again once i used the recovery partition to restore my primary partition back to factory.
By the way, when using prime95 with turbo boost working properly, it does boost all 4 cores to 2.6ghz, which is preety good. I dont know where you got 8 cores from, theres 4 cores and 8 threads...
And your not bursting any bubbles lol.

 

I've just upgraded my boot drive into an SSD. Really happy with the results.

 

I have a problem with my nVidia Driver.
Everything was working fine on my G73SW from last issue but now i can't fix it. When i got the laptop about 2 month ago i did not update GPU driver at all than issues came up(screen flickering etc) OS was working fine, when i tried to run games all the images were going crazy followed by forced reboot. i updated drivers to 270 beta there wasn't 275 yet and it helpd everything was perfect untill last night. I was tring to install witcher 2 and at the end of teh installation some kind of error appiared with cappy speaker sound i could't read because it dissapiared fast. And after it driver or GPU went bad, before login to windows i see small black dots on the screen on certain spots and when i log in all the screen is going crazy and also essige pops up that nvidia driver stopped working and was recovered and it is keep doing that and it reboots by itself. i disabled GPU and tha i could log in fine(low resolution) uninstalled all nvidea drivers restarted to safe mode used driwer sweaper and cleared what was left restarted again normal mode and installed 275 driver and was doing the same thing, i tried it couple times i installed 266 270 275 non of them helped.

If somebody know how to solve this problem i would really appriciate it !

 

Congrats. I've ordered the same system but it will be June or July before it's shipped. The good news is I should be up to snuff on any issue that might arise by that time.

Re the crapware, couldn't you just delete the programs you don't want instead of going through the process of reinstalling your OS or is there some added benefit to doing this?

Were you able to remedy the flicker?
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Yes, I've been using the new BETA Drivers 275.27 since late last week and can confirm enhanced 3D experience vs. the 270.61 drivers, and better overall performance in 2D also, playing WOW and Shogun: Total War--both 2D games seem to be smoother and faster, and 3D movies now have lost the flicker and jerkiness completely! A wunnderful addition.

However I have a big "No, Don't Do" with respect to the latest RealTek HD Drivers offered at the RealTek website, and that is do NOT update to the latest and greatest driver package for the HD RealTek Sound. I LOST my audio completely in QuickTime Player and PowerDVD 10.x Ultra 3D and 2D both by updating my drivers to the latest and had to revert to the driver system off the Drivers and Utility Support DVD ROM from Asus, which brought things back to normal! :yes:

So DO NOT UPDATE the latest and greatest (worst) RealTek HD Audio Drivers! I used Driver Magician to update all my system drivers and that included USB drivers, both 2.0 and 3.0 USB drivers, which worked out fine but NOT the RealTek drivers...as reported I lost audio playback completely and it sucked! :wub:

Sorry to report that, but better late than never, so do NOT UPDATE AUDIO DRIVERS in the RealTek HD!

Sorry, no RAID support with our dual HD system, it's just not in our SYSTEM BIOS or software support either, no can do! Be happy with the 2nd HD for storage and games, which is what I use it for, with my SSD on the OS and apps for everything and keyed apps especially (Photoshop CS3 Enhanced Suite, DreamWeaver, Lightroom 3.x, others) are on the SSD exclusively for fast launches and enhanced performance. All games and movies are on the 500GB E Drive, which works a treat!

Tom, FireFox 4 sucks compared to the latest and greatest Chrome 11.x, which you should give a try instead of FireFox, which is just not the browser to have anymore sorry to say! I gave it up earlier in the year and have not looked back...and Chrome is a very apt replacement browser system! :smile:

Congratulations on the 3D model, they ROCK!

Update your nVidia drivers to BETA 275.27 drivers for everything, including 3D and StereoVision, all of it, HD Audio too, and let it RIP! You will be happy you tried it out, as it works fantastic compared to the OEM systems. :yes:

Where did you score the 750GB HD's? Was that an extra additional fee at a custom build or what? The most that Asus offered me OEM was twin 500GB Seagate XT's (Hybrids) 7200RPM HD's, which I am using one of with a Vertex 3 SSD as of tomorrow, Vertex 2 today...the 3-series comes in tomorrow's UPS delivery and I cannot wait to install its rocket-like arsenal of power...up to 550MB/sec reads and 525MB/sec writes sustained! :tongue:

Try an SSD for your boot system, apps, and keyed apps, and you will not regret it...I used Paragon's Hard Disk Manager 11 Suite for imaging the HD to SSD, and it worked a treat! (after a clean install) :wink:

The Suite has an "HD to SSD" feature application within the Cloning software it has several versions of, and I highly recommend the Paragon utilities over anything Acronis(c), just had miserable luck personally with their stuff and happily am using Paragon utilities with 100% success.

Try it out:

PARAGON Software Group - partition manager, drive backup, hard disk partitioning

I am very pleased to see all the 3DE notebooks getting on line here at NBR Reviews and Owner's Lounges, as it is a good thing to have going for yourself, at least I have no regrets of disposing of my G51JX-A1 and getting one of these fantastic notebooks, which are evolutionary in power, speed, and features, in spite of having no eSATA or ExpressCard slots....a sad thing indeed...as I have extensive HDs and peripherals eSATA and FireWire both. :cry:

I am learning to live with USB 3.0 however and it ROCKS too! It is notably faster than eSATA or FireWire, any version of either format, so that's a good thing to be using I guess.

Overall I am "getting used to" the new notebook with little difficulties, just a much bigger thing overall to have vs a 15.6" notebook, and my new iPad2 is getting accustomed to syncing up with the new notebook and it's working out good so far...using both USB and BT for syncing with nice results with the new iPad2. :yes:

The notebooks are just unsually good stuff, much tighter QC and performance is UP UP UP over the G51 series overall by a bunch of points, and I am happy to report with a big EXCLAMATION POINT!!!!!!! The Sandy Bridge architecture is just a big update and upgrade overall to the GM55 system of BIOS and motherboards both, and I am going to try out the new UEFI BIOS one of these days to boot, and see how that goes also. :smile:

Overall I am just simply ecstatic with the new notebook and its performance and video abilities, 3D and 2D both with the nVidia GTX-460M 1.5GB DDR5 doing a whale of a job with anything I throw its way. :smile:

I don't know where Asus could have improved this package or feature group as it's just top drawer, maybe make the whole thing out of alloy like the new smaller Asus notebooks, perhaps, is all I can think of presently.

rexrzer727

 

Hey guys. I have the ASUS G73SW-XT1 from Tiger Direct here in Toronto which I bought from their store. I have played Fallout New Vegas using 260 driver for my 1.5 Gb. GTX 460M at Ultra High setting (@1920x1080)by game auto detect, and that's how I played the whole game. Half way I went with 270 driver just to try it and still Ultra High, still flawless in native resolution.

I'm now playing The Witcher 2. It auto detected the 1.5Gb. GTX 460M to medium setting and it was still an eye candy. I disabled a few things under medium setting and Witcher 2 is flawless at 1920x1080 native resolution.

I'm almost at Chapter 2 in The Witcher 2. I've already defeated the first big boss which is the Kayran beast. Defeated it many times.. Nvidia 260 or 270 WHQL drivers are awesome. Witcher 2 is almost like a breeze for my G73SW-XT1 on 1920x1080, in eye candy setting.

By the way, uninstall previous driver before installing new driver.. My G73SW-XT1 is now completely clean of bloatware, keyboard lights and all are working and did windows update. Didn't have to resort for a fresh Windows 7 install. Additional ATK drivers is at ASUS site. Cd driver doesn't have complete ATK drivers, but it's needed.

 

I hope I understood what is going on 100%, as there were so many typos and spelling errors that I had difficulty understanding it all, but here goes the fixes you have available to you at this point:

How did you try to install the new nVidia drivers?

Did you Clean Install the drivers? That is check "Custom" install, then select "Clean Install Drivers" from the menu that appears next. Then install, and ONLY install that way?

If you are installing the driver with the nVidia GPU disabled it will not install either, so the GPU must be active, and besides, what do you mean "I disabled the GPU"...??? How did you disable the GPU anyway? Because that is physically impossible AFAIK to do, this notebook doesn't have a non-GPU GPU system of any type, AFAIK.

Maybe you know something I don't about this GPU system, but AFAIK you must have the GPU active to install the nVidia driver system, in any case, and there is no 2ndary GPU driver system to operate this computer with...if there is I'd like to know what it is and how it works! Edumacate me if I am mistaken about this computer and how it works, but AFAIK there's no secondary driver or GPU system to use, it's the GPU system from the nVidia card or nothing at all, isn't that the way it works?

If all else fails, if you are in the USA, I'd Recover the System to OEM status and start fresh again, with everything in base OEM trim...and go from there.

Do you still have the OEM HD in place, and didn't wipe the drive Clean? I hope you didn't do a Clean Install and wipe the drive, because then you'll have no Recovery Partition, so what is going on with that...do you have the Recovery Partition intact?

Do you know how to initiate the Recovery sequence? It's very simple really...simply restart and start tapping the F9 key and don't stop until the system boots into Recovery Mode.

Once in Recovery Mode, choose how to Recover the System to OEM status, ie either to "One partition", or "Two Partitions", make that choice and the rest automatically happens, the Recovery Partition takes over and writes zero's to the HD in a quick format, depending on what choice you've made as far as partitioning goes, then the Recovery Partition paves the HD with a brand new OS and applications, exactly like the computer was when brand new, with all the crapoloware and extra apps etc., but at least the System will work at that point!

Once you've recovered the System the computer restarts, you are instructed to insert the Driver and Utility DVD ROM to install all the OEM drivers, as i recall, so do that, and hopefully you still have the DVD intact also, and let that system operate and install everything necessary next. Finally you'll restart one, more time and the Recovery will be complete.

You can then proceed to operate the computer normally.

Those are your alternatives:

1) install the nVidia drivers Cleanly

2) Recover the System to OEM status and start all over again, losing all data and personal data, apps you've installed, etc...but at least it will work!

Good luck, and hope this helped...

rexrzer727

 

Thats funny... because i actually saw a ~5 FPS drop in Crysis . Weird

I went to the latest official drivers, worked normal, but couldnt seem to handle my 20% OC and my computer shut off suddenly twice.

So I'm back on the older ones that Asus provided with the laptop. Seems to be fine

 

Well you must have something baaad goin' on with having to use old drivers like the OEM drivers, my man, as I just scored some stellar results for 3DMark06 in 2D guise, the 1st time I've seen an OEM notebook hit 16K points! To be precise I hit 16,120 3DMarks in 3DMark 06, at a ridiculously high overclocking using EVGA Precision 2.0.3, and the driver held tight! I am jazzed by this test result! :wink:

I've uploaded it for posterity, and for you all with doubts about the new 275.27 BETA nVidia driver's sustainability to see for yerselves what can happen with the right driver, a great overclockable nVidia GTX-460M video board, and a little luck to boot. I mean to tell you I saw more than 120FPS in parts of the testing, something I've never seen a notebook do before of any ilk or breeding.

Maybe there are better results than this number... but I dunno, I've not seen it here at notebookreview.com...this is tops for my book. Anybody care to compare their notebook's results with these, be my guest...I welcome anyone's results that are equal to or higher than 16,120 3DMarks in 06 in 2D mode. :rolleyes2:

It's funny but I couldn't hardly get out of the 14,000's at first, but then I realized I was *manually turning off the 3D every test sequence*, and I figured that couldn't be a good thing for such a test, and I was right as rain! As soon as I Restarted my notebook with the overclock in place, this result transpired, and it surprised the heck out of me! Zowie! :yes:

This is a great notebook, in 3D or 2D working, and I've got a great video board, according to my results anyway this seems to be the case. I am not going to run the card at such a lofty setting often, this is certain, but nonetheless I know the video board can DO such a thing now, for sure, and that is what is important...16,120 3DMarks is just astronomical!

Check it out for yerselves, and see what you think...and check out the o'clocking also. :laugh:

I am pleased with this result, immensely so, and I heartily recommend the new BETA driver for serious testing and general good results both, as I have seen better than average frame rates in everything I have been playing of late, including WOW; Shogun: Total War; 3D Pinball's "Slamit Pinball Big Score", and other games also. I have yet to have it crash for any reason, even overclocking as I have not tested the waters higher than where I have it set for the test I published tonight. :smile:

This is a fantastic notebook, I love it!

rexrzer727

Just for grins I ran one more run on the notebook at the overclocking of 847/1695/1500Mhz settings, mostly to satisfy myself that the first result wasn't a fluke, and sure enough it hit 16,081 3DMarks in '06 as a backup to the first result, which I am publishing here tonight also.

If some smart Mod wants to combine the two posts please don't delete my benchmarks, thank you very much!

rexrzer727

 

Yes i installed nVidia Driver cleanly and it was doing the same thing, next day i woke up it was working properly thats weird but i was happy : )

I have a different question, has anybody installed GNOME3 and if yes how it's working any problems with the drivers or anything i should know because i'm about to do that.

 

Result
It's with an old driver 267.76, for whatever reason the results show stock clock, but that's impossible, I believe it's 830/1660/1480.

 

I just got my 3DE and tried installing the 275 driver, but the Nvidia installer claims I don't have compatible hardware. Am I missing something?

EDIT: Nevermind - I downloaded the desktop version.

 

I had this result a while back, even posted in this thread...
16226
850/1700/1625
Result

 

Well, it says, "complete the following information and mail it with your original sales receipts" on the warranty card. Can anyone tell me if they sent in a copy of the receipt and the warranty was still activated?

 

Yes, I sent in a copy of my original Invoice and Retail Purchase Receipt from Amazon.com (both), and my notebook was registered nominally in the Accidental Damage Warranty program...no issues at all.

rexrzer727

Verrrry good! 16,168 3DMarks in '06 is dang good stuff, and the same to the other gentleman who posted his marks at 16,2xx (?), both of which are slighly better than my post today. Honestly I was just stokin' the fire to see if anybody in fact had done better than that result, and I am glad actually to see that others have done that well with this notebook, an amazing feat if you ask me.

I see at the 3DMark FutureMark web pages that there are now "60 notebooks" that have done 16K or better, now counting my machine (it registered 59 before I posted today), so that's a scant few notebooks of all sorts, including our model-- the G73SW in its many iterations-- that have bested 16K 3DMarks in '06, so that's a KUHL Club to be a member of now.

If this result doesn't surprise some of you, it sure surprised me last night!

I had never seen a notebook hit 16K points before, so you'll have to excuse my exuberance about it, but there you go...it was a rush I'd never had before so now that I've had it I want to do a little better, at some point, just not today or tonight either. I am going to savor my 16,120 score and relax for a few days on it!

This video board is indeed an amazing one, and to see frame rates of higher than 120FPS in bursts (not steady by any means) was also surprising to me when testing last night. THAT I had for sure never seen in any notebook until then.

Now my Core i7 970-equipped desktop, with twin GTX-560Ti SC (EVGA brand) video boards has cracked more than 220FPS in that test, scored more than 32K points as I recall (it's been awhile since I tested it...it's my office server for its normal work), so basically double the notebook score there, but even that is nominal for desktops...but in retrospect it IS faster than Sin on the Bible!

Thanks for posting those marks, it's appreciated to you two guys, as I simply wondered just how good somebody has done here with the machine.

rexrzer727

 

Yeah, mine is 16,239 at clocks 850/1700/1400.

 

Is there any way to stop Windows Media Center from opening when you press Fn+Down Arrow (Play/Pause) ??

 

There was a way before asus made the ATK suite into a single package: remove ATK media. I don't know if it's possible to disable or remove that now that ATK is in a single package but that's what you should be looking for.

EDIT: Just prevent the ATK media process from starting at boot, it's Dmedia.exe i think.

 

Hi Asus G73SW owners,


Just got my notebook 2 days back.

I realise that whenever i startup my notebook, there will be a few ticking sound. Seems like it's coming from the DVD writer when notebook starts up.

Does anyone has the same issue?

Not sure if it's normal.

Please advise.

thanks

 

yup, it's normal, I've heard it on 5 different G73s now. Guess just one of the unfortunate side affects of a cheap, but good performance laptop ;\.

 

For those of you who are *interested* in SATA 3 power for your notebooks of the G73SW persuasion, look no further for some benchmarks, and a 1st impression also.

I installed the new Vertex 3 this afternoon, and can report that the notebook does, indeed support 6GB/sec SATA 3 speeds and devices 100%, and the Vertex 3 is an SSD of a whole 'nother persuasion than anything I've ever used before, even in the confines of a notebook like mine.

Things are simply rocket like now, from web pages "popping out of Chrome" browser like a shotgun blast for each page, it's so snappy that it freaked me out at 1st. Anything that involves the keyboard is triple-snappy-Tom also now, with zero lag-time and effects, if there were any with my Vertex 2 they are gone with the Vertex 3 100%.

I'll post some preliminary benchmarks of my Vertex 3, which is populated to the tune of 67.9GB free out of 111GB of actual formatted, available space, so it's far from an empty volume with extensive programs and utilities and some media on the SSD. I used Paragon's Hard Disk Manager 11's Copy Disk feature to Clone the data off my Vertex 2 to the Vertex 3 in a USB 3.0 case, which strangely failed on the spot after completing the mission at hand...it took about 10 minutes, and then the enclosure, an Acomdata Tango USB 3.0 alloy enclosure, just stopped working 100%! Yikes!

I'm having Amazon.com send me a new case asap, sometime in early June it seems, as they are OOS with the devices presently, a shame...

Speeds like this SSD can yield even in a notebook setting are just phenomenal and have to be experienced to be believed, frankly. To think I almost got the "Extreme IOPs" version of the Vertex 3 just for grins, but Pasadena'd the idea since I was getting such a great deal on the standard SSD from B&H Photo Video & Pro Audio ($278 plus shiipping, about $290 with UPS 2nd Day Air). They are one of the few retailers/etailers who are discounting the Vertex 3 to any extent at all, and I can highly recommend them as a seller, as they have always been good to me for both computer and photo gear.

Anyway, the Vertex 3 *is* all it's built-up to be and then some in personal experience, it is simply the best, and fastest notebook HD available at this time with simply stunning speeds and performance overall. View the benchmarks with the understanding that this is a fully populated OS HD that is giving that kind of performance, not a bare SSD with nothing on it.

If the Vertex 3 yields true to form the speeds will actually improve over time, as my Vertex 2's did the same, because the Sandforce controller performs some immaculate housekeeping to help things along, organizing the files for better, faster reads and writes as time goes on, and performing TRIM functions in idle time when the SSD is in "neutral" without being used...I try and give my SSD at least an hour of non-demanding time online daily so that controller can do its thing.

Enjoy the graphics, if you're curious about the Vertex 3's SATA 3 performance, as I won't be testing the SSD again for at least another 2 weeks, will simply be enjoying it and letting its Sandforce controller do its job and make things even faster and better as time goes on.

rexrzer727

 

thanks dkillone.

yeah agreed on that.

one more problem that i'm facing with the notebook.. occasionally halfway through listening to mp3, the song will freeze for about 1-2 seconds. seems like it freeze when i'm doing some not so resouce intensive operation.

any solution to it?

thnks

better way to describe my problem is that the sound ters

 

Anyone tried watching 3D BDs using PowerDVD and the 275 driver? All I get is a black screen when in 3D mode. Roxio and Totalmedia work fine however.

 

@rexrzer727, I bet writing essays isn't difficult for you.

 

A good thing too since many can gain from rexrzer's thorough observations. Keep up those informative "essays."

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The mp3 files are maybe located on the second hard-drive? Nonetheless, try updating the firmware of the hdds to latest sd25 which fixes many fixes found in sd22 (found on the hdds that g73sw ships with).

 

The OEM PowerDVD is not an adequate player for BluRay 3D...unfortunately. You'll need to upgrade to PowerDVD 10 Ultra 3D Mark II, if you can find it discounted somewhere (Amazon.com is a good source for dated software), or the new PowerDVD 11 Ultra 3D, that costs something like $70-$100 depending on where you get it, any coupons you might have, etc.

I'm using PowerDVD 10 Ultra 3D Mark II with the latest patch which brings the resource up to version 10.0.2701.51, that I just applied last week when I got this new G73SW-3DE, and it seems to play everything great, including 3D BluRay discs. :yes:

Cyberlink (providers of the software) have a single digit market, unfortunately also, as they are the *only* legitimate playback software that isn't OEM stuff, that works, shall I say. Nobody else makes 3D software much less BluRay playback software, that is worth a hoot, so they pretty much own the market. :rolleyes2:

Suggestion: get the PowerDVD10 Ultra 3D Mark II but only if you can find it at a discount, a significant discount, and solve your problem. Paying $70-$100 for the PowerDVD 11 is crazy to me, when PowerDVD 10 plays everything just as well and can be found for less $$'s. :wink:

Hope this helps you out, wish I had a better solution but I don't.

What are you using for playback? WMV Player or iTunes? Those are woefully inadequate players with no cache which helps playback immensely. Try playing the media with PowerDVD and see if that helps, as it uses cache from the notebook and the music sounds 100% better through that player...which a lot of people don't even know to use, much less to try out.

As the other gentleman said, if the music is stored on your remote HD in the notebook that can cause issues also, so a cache-oriented player is recommended for that reason also. :smile:

Hah Hah! That is good...sorry sarge, I'm a verbose sonofagun and you'll just have to get used to my long, involved posts, as I try to give complete answers or none at all. Maybe I'll solve something for you someday, yah?

Thanks Muzz.ca, it's appreciated, and thanks for the Feedback also! I'll just do what I do, and that's post once or so daily and try to answer as many questions as I feel qualified to do, that's about it.

rexrzer727

 

rexrzer, the problem I'm having is when using Powerdvd 11 Ultra, not an OEM version. It works fine in 2D, but the screen goes black if I try 3D. It worked fine with the stock video driver however.

 

hi, i am going to purchase a asus g series (sw) and was wondering what ssd i should buy with it? i am looking at agillity 3.. and there seems to be some issues with sandforce controllers and sandybridge.. i dont wanna go intel because of the price difference.. what ssd should work right out of the box with asus g sw? (clean install)
feel free to post intel too.. i think i want sata 3 ssd.. thanks for any answers.. my choices are here: http://www.dustinhome.no/ (search ssd)

 

EDIT: Apologies, just noticed that you were talking about version 11 and not 10.

Just found this which may help from the Cyberlink forum:

CyberLink just released the Mark II patch for PowerDVD 10 ULTRA to v2429:

The best 3D video, Blu-ray player & DVD player software ? PowerDVD 10

v2916 - This patch is available via autoupdate function only
Updated:
Add new nVidia driver (version: r275, released date: 5/23/2011) support for BD3D playback

Resolved Issues:
1.PowerDVD cannot playback BD3D title “Tangled” smoothly (Ultra only)
2.PowerDVD cannot playback disc after install the software “Virtual Clone Drive” (For ALL)
3.PowerDVD cannot playback “Saw 3D” smoothly after user switch to different camera angle. (Ultra only)
4.PowerDVD cannot launch under Winder Media Center after install Internet Explorer 9. (For ALL)

 

Figures. Turns out that turning off hardware acceleration in PowerDVD makes it work as well.

EDIT: The problem is making it stick. It'll start playing discs and re-enable the hardware acceleration. There's no patch for PowerDVD 11 yet, or at least none is showing up when I try to update. I love the 3D on this thing when it works, but movie playback appears to be very beta. I have one disc that only plays properly in Cineplayer and PowerDVD for instance - WinDVD and Arcsoft do not work.