I have a problem when using any recent Nvidia driver with my GeForce 6150 (integrated in MB Asus M2NPV-VM). I am using Vista 32bit Ultimate.

Desktop looks good, starting VMC, everything looks really good, nice antialiasing everywhere, very sharp on my analog TV. But when I start anything video, LiveTV or recorded tv, I get choppy playback.
My system is using the microsoft mpeg encoder at that point. I tried PureVideo and that plays back normal, not choppy, but I don't like the quality of the decoding on Vista. The microsoft encoder does a much better job.

When I roll back my drivers to the stock windows drivers, playback works perfect, even with the Microsoft encoder. I tried alot of different things and it is definitely the Nvidia graphics Forceware driver to blame.

The problem is, with the stock driver, I don't get the advanced Nvidia control panel, so I cannot adjust colors and sharpness of the s-video output. I would also like to be able to enable a little bit of flicker-filter.


There must be someone else outthere that has the same MB and vista running with Nvidia drivers. Which version are you running. I am not going to try them all.:)

What do you mean by choppy playback?  do you mean a slight skip every 5 - 10 seconds?  If so I had a similar problem on my pc which has a built in Geforce 6150.  I was using the hdmi connection on the back of mine to connect to a dvi input on my tv (I haven't got a hdmi tv yet).  If I used the VGA output then the skipping stopped.  After reading around I found out that if I connected the scart up and enabled clone mode the skipping is fixed on the hdmi output, but only while clone mode is left enabled. 

Hope this is some help, but maybe a completely different problem.  Either way it does seem like the Nvidia drivers need a lot of work done on them.

Rob