What's the best laptop to run Mixvibes 1.3 with Vfx controll

[Boingy]

Hello all,
This is my first post, so be gentle
I'm having no luck with running Mixvibes and Vfx controller. I realised that my problem is down to my HP laptop, which only had 512 MB of graphic memory. So I changed it to a Toshiba, but found out too late about that Mixvibes doesn't support Integrated Intel graphics cards.
I've been looking up a few models and would like some advice on what to buy. I've looked at the following
Toshiba L850D-12P
Toshiba C850D-11Q
Maybe you guys can help me out and point me to a laptop that works well with Mixvibes.
Thanks all,
Tony

[daniel clark]

what are you trying to accomplish ,, what are your plans and set up you are thinking about running do you have the Vfx controller and Vfx software hate to tell you that Vfx will not have any futher up dates ,,that the focus has shifted to Cross and the video plug in will post some links as to info along thease lines ,,,time know to get info and decide which way you are going before spending any more cash ,,sorry to say welcome to mixvibes fourm,at the end of the posting but there it is
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[Support@MixVibes]

I'm having no luck with running MixVibes and Vfx controller. I realised that my problem is down to my HP laptop, which only had 512 MB of graphic memory.

It doesn't run at all or you have a warning message at start ?

Because even if we don't officially support it, it can work, and some people here are working with it (even with the warning message) and asked us to remove the message because for them it is ok.
(but we didn't remove the message)

[Boingy]

Thanks for the replies
I'm running the Vfx controller with the Vfx software that comes out of the box. I've upgraded to version 1.3.1. I want to run my show via the laptop, playing my video (vob, mpg and divx) files and mp3 files, preferably outputted via HDMI. With my current laptop (HP Envy sleekbook) there are no warnings, but the video quality is awful. There are major rendering issues on quick scene changes. I had put this down to a slow graphics card (Radeon with 512 Mb dedicated 1Gb shared) and decided to get another laptop. The one I got was a Toshiba P850-138 with a Nvidia GeForce GT630M graphics card. However, there's an Intel integrated graphics card for HDMI lurking in there and its that card that gives the error message. If I let the engine start, I get the same poor video issues as I had with the HP. If I switch to the GeForce graphics without disabling the Intel graphics, the width of the video intermittently jumps in. If I disable the Intel graphics completely, then I lose both the HDMI (as expected) and the VGA outputs.
Would getting the Cross software help me, or am I better off just trying a new laptop. I really don't want to go down the desktop/rackmount route, because I'm trying to cut down on the size of my present rig.
Thanks again,
Tony

[Support@MixVibes]

Ok now I got it.

For the 1st computer, did you try to adjust the quality into : Preferences/Video/Video resolution ?

But if you have tearing and artefact on the display it can be hardware (sometime drivers !!!) related.

For the 2nd computer, it is a well known issue. You need to force the computer to always run on the Nvidia. As simple as that.
Changing device on the fly is never a good idea.

[Boingy]

Hello again,
On the first computer, it made no difference what setting I had in the Preferences/Video/Video resolution tab....... The video would still tear.
On the second computer, I had the same tearing problems. When I tried to set only the NVidia graphics card, I lost the ability to use dual screen altogether!
I chose to upgrade to Cross with the Video plugin to see if that would improve things.... Nope! All the videos (600 or so of them) are still tearing as before. Looks like I'm forced to get another laptop. I was thinking of getting an Alienware gamers' laptop. Surely a laptop kitted out with NVidia GT650M with 1 or 2Gb DDR5 memory, Intel Core i5 or i7 processor and 8Gb DDR3 memory with stop all this video tearing?
What are your thoughts on that?
Cheers,
Tony

[Support@MixVibes]

If you can seend me a link to just one of these file so we could check before, it would be wiser.
So we could check if it is file or decoder related.

[Boingy]

Would you like me to PM the link to you?

[Support@MixVibes]

Please do so.