Real Lingoists don 't use AMD?! 2004-02-11 - By Roman Blöth
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Hi there,
back to life - another milestone has been reached and i have catched up
my sleep yesterday, so now I'll try to concentrate on this thread again:
Guy McLoughlin wrote:
> ...For what it's worth, I've been using AMD CPUs for more than 10 years
> now ( including several motherboards with VIA chipsets ) with absolutely
> no problems what so ever. Here's the list of PC CPUs that I've owned
> since 1988:
>
> Intel 8086 8 Mhz ( turbo )
> Intel 286 12 Mhz
> AMD 386-DX40 Mhz
> AMD 386-DX100 Mhz
> Pentium 75 Mhz
> Pentium 166 Mhz
> Pentium II 300 Mhz ( x 2 computers, Intel chipsets )
> Pentium III 600 Mhz ( x 2 computers, VIA chipsets )
> Pentium III 1 Ghz ( x 2 computers, VIA chipsets ) )
> AMD XP 1800 ( x 3 computers, VIA chipsets ) )
> AMD XP 2600 ( nVidia chipset )
> AMD XP 2400 ( current PC with nVidia chipset )
> AMD 64 3000 ( current PC with VIA chipset )
>
> ...I've used these for absolutely everything, including heavy boughts of
> video encoding that in some cases ran for several days.
>
> My next computer will likely be built with a more powerful AMD 64 CPU,
> because my experience with this CPU so far has been great.
>
> Provided you don't have defective hardware, my guess is that somewhere
> along the line there's a driver problem with your setup.
Well, I'm far from wanting to start a flame war (i preferred AMD
also...) here.
The fact is, that we had our crashes only when running Director on an
AMD system. We had these crashes especially (very often, that is) when
the belkin device (Belkin HiSpeed USB DVD Creator - a small piece of
hardware converting video from analog to digital) was _installed_ and
the Xtra "TrackThemColors" was _installed_ - it DID NOT MATTER whether
we used video input or not, that is whether the Xtra was instanciated or
not. I really don't know if the belkin always loads the USB of the PC,
regardless of some software in the background doing something with the
video stream.
Installing a manufacturers mouse driver (replacing the MS standard
driver) had a huge impact on the crashes - after that we had far less
crashes than before, but still were not able to run the program in
authoring for more than half an hour.
We've tried this on 4 diferent AMD PCs using Windows 2000 professional
(SP4) and Windows XP professional (SP1), and the newest BIOS and chipset
drivers... One of the chipsets is nVidia - the other ones I don't know
at this time.
Maybe it's sufficient to remember this thread for some time in the
future, maybe no one else will ever face this trouble like we did...
Best regards,
Roman.
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