Archive for May, 2010

I updated my Chris-TV install to version 5.51

I am a long time user of Chris-TV, a sofware that handles many analogue PCI TV cards – I use it with a Hauppauge’s dual tuner PVR-500. I think this software product lost some of the attributes that once, years ago, made it the only viable solution for those who really wanted to use their [...]

watchdog.sys – disable it or increase its tolerance

After the failure of my 27 months old XFX 8800 Ultra, I bought an ATI 5970 VGA card, which is impressive hardware on paper, yet served by very imature drivers. This card performs great on 3D games but is miserable on “simple” 2D desktop applications, namely for video – and I am a very intense video [...]