New Graphics Card?

ChuckMountain

Be polite somebody is trying to help you.

Your issue is crackling audio etc, which doesn't necessarily mean your graphics card is defunct.

Your initial post isn't clear whether your existing card is a 970 or that's what you want.

It's like you saying you want a new engine because your car is not revving correctly.  In reality your fuel filter might be blocked, which is a much cheaper fix than a new engine.  Getting a new engine wouldn't fix it in that case either .

Most issues like this are software related and are a configuration issue.

Your requirements are not correct either and part of your issue might be trying to decode sound it should be directly output to your avr no messing about.

Eddy555

The guy is just trying to help you, try and be a little more receptive to their suggestions

Darren Heal

Sorry. I'm not trying to be rude, but I have already determined that I want to, perhaps need to,  replace my graphics card.  My question was whether or not this particular graphics card would be a good fit or if there was an alternative suggestion for a graphics card.

Oh.  BTW I already knew regular TV and by legacy old fashioned (ahem) DVDs are 24 fps.  My paternal grandfather just happened to work for the BBC between 1936 and 1968, ending up as their chief engineer.  My understanding is that blu-rays, and by extension 4K blu-rays can be encoded at up to 60 fps, however, and that 60 fps is becoming the new norm for video in all formats (the days of big rolls of film - either for shooting movies / TV or playing them back - being long over in most cases).

ChuckMountain

To confirm what is your current card?

Regular tv will be 50 or 60 Hz depending on your source country.

DVD/blu ray and UHD are all 24 Hz for the vast majority of films and will continue to do so, they are generally filmed at that.  They can be encoded higher as you say but that is generally if they have been shot at a higher frame rate and that is usually a multiple of 24

Are you allowing your powerdvd to change the refresh rate on the card as it can make a big difference.

Darren Heal

Agreed on frame rate differences one side of the Atlantic to the other.

And no, I'm not letting the PowerDVD software set the frame rate or the audio.  Those are set to "native" or "raw" or whatever.  The issue is with the graphics card and its control software or built-in audio codecs.

Varsas

With very few exceptions all movies still run at 24fps (Billy's long half time walk and the Hobbit being exceptions) so you need to be able to run those without any pulldown or conversion, at their native rate.  As another said, adding frames to get to 60fps is what causes stuttering, putting them to 50hz usually means speeding the film up slightly.

Video, depends what you are watching.  As a rule of thumb, American stuff is 60fps, UK stuff is 50fps, with older stuff being interlaced, so you may need to cope with that too depending.

Really your player needs to run at the correct refresh rate (or some integer multiple thereof, so 60 or 120 for 60fps, 24/48/96 for 24fps etc) for what it's running.  It would be worth checking your DVDs/BluRays are encoded at the correct frame rate, use something like VLC to check how it's encoded.

Assuming that's true you need a video card which supports these different rates at the resolutions you want to run.  This probably means getting something with HDMI 2.0a or better support.  2.0a also means you could send HDR signals at a later time, this HDMI support is more important than the GPU the card has, that won't be used much during video playback.  I don't know that much about video playback on a PC, I dare say there are specialist reviews you can check, focus on those rather than processing power.  You also need to make sure it works well with the playback software you are using.  I use VLC, and it seems to work well with no messing about of the sound/frame rates, and de-interlaces properly, but I don't use it that much.

*just seen comments above...I'm too slow!*

Darren Heal

PS I'm using a cheaper Zotac GT1030 graphics card on the HTPC in the living room, and am not having any issues, except that the card will only output at 1080p at 60 Hz, so I'm relying on the 4KTV or AVR that one is hooked up to in order to do the upscaling.  Sound is fine, whether the card decides to output in bitstream, PCM or decoded Atmos / DTS:X.

Mu question is about the completely different HTPC I'm using in my upstairs movie room.  It has the 970 card.  I've tried setting the resolution at 1080p and 3860 x 2160 on the HTPC, and, with the tweak or setting the frame rate at 59 fps, the video is working fine.  It's the audio that's the problem.

Eddy555

It is worth trying different software to make sure it's not PowerDVD causing the problem.

ChuckMountain

As you are forcing the output to 59hz you also need to process the audio.  Buying a new graphics card might not resolve it.

dollag

i had a 1050 running in my htpc for 4k hdr films/material

will happily manage 4k @60hz