Vista Movie Maker doesn't want to run due to the graphic card

[Jan Kucera]

Hello,
I have a Matrox Parhelia AVPe card and Vista's Movie Maker refuses to
run, saying the card is not good enough (lacks hardware acceleration I
think). Well... I mean come on, this is professional video editing card, why
MM can't do with it?

Or at least, any way how to run it without hw acceleration?

Thanks for any hints,
Jan

 

[Graham Hughes]

MM uses gpu, so I suspect your graphics card has a low amount of it's own
memory, or if it is 256mb or above then Matrox haven't made proper vista
drivers. Are you using their latest vista compatible ones?
ps, vista has it's own media newsgroup at
vista.music_pictures_video

 

[Jan Kucera]

Drivers are okay I think, but the memory is 128MB.
So it's not possible to do the editing work in MM with this card?

Well...why they feel that vista.moviemaker is bad name after xp.moviemaker
and me.moviemaker? Thank you for the hint, I'll check with them as well.

Jan

 

[Graham Hughes]

I think you'll find the memory is too low.

MS have bundled pictures/audio and video into one vista newsgroup.......

 

[Jan Kucera]

I've confirmed - XDDM drivers.
For 3D gaming maybe, but otherwise I think it's quite a good piece of HW,
capable running of two displays+HDTV, WYSIWYG, made for video editing. I
can't get why the MM requires anything more. Moreover, when the HD frame
takes less than 10MB.

By the way, even more frustrating lock if you want to use the MM just to mix
the audio.

Jan

 

[Graham Hughes]

It is a good piece of hardware I'd agree, but MM is trying to show you all
effects in real time, so no rendering, and to do this it needs to use gpu.
Some think it's a bonus and others like you find it a bind, I'm afraid.

 

[Jan Kucera]

Hmm... I was thinking that this is what the card can do with Premiere Pro...
I also think that's a bonus, but I don't think the software should be made
to not run without such feature.

Okay, we can't do anything with that. Thank you for helping to find the
cause here!
Jan