How do I enable hardware acceleration for High def videos on the the HD 3850? Im a complete noob at this Ati Stream/Cuda stuff, so bear with me. Im using Win7 RC x64, CCCP, Windows Media Player Classic
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1.) Download Media Player Classic Home Cinema from here 2.) Open the program and under "Output" select "EVR" 3.) Restart MPC-HC and open a HD video file. 4.) It should playback with GPU acceleration. To check, check CPU utilisation. Also, if you go to filter properties it should say somthing along the lines of: "Radeon HD 3850 DXVA - Bitstream H.264"
