Download driversAfter the crappy release of Creative's Dxr3 Win2000 drivers, I was rather discouraged that I would ever get my DVD running outside of the NT4 drivers with beta Hollywood drivers. Well today I finally decided to experiment with them and I figured out how to get them to work.
First thing is to install and then remove the NT4 drivers. I'm not sure how neccesary this step is, but I did it just to make sure I'd have the registry entries for the Creative DVD player.
Second thing - using the Win2k device manager install the Creative Win2k Beta drivers. (you'll have to reboot)
Now as all of us know who tried this driver when it came out, this now completely f**** up the media player.
So what you have to do next is literally 'break' the Win2k supported drivers. That's the device that allows Win2k to play DVD's natively. You do this by running the registry editor. Search all the data values for 'dxr3'. Now in my registry this was the first one. A classid key with 4 parameters:
default= . . .
CLSID= . . .
FilterData= . . .
FriendlyName='Creative Labs Encore Dxr3 Filter'
Just delete the entire key with all 4 parameters. This will fix the media player (you can verify by trying a couple of mpeg movies in it)
Lastly, just install the Creative PC-DVD Player.
Well, that's it. I'm now running DVD's without any adverse affects using the Creative drivers.
NOTE - When I installed this on my first machine which had the Sigma drivers on it the autocalibrate didn't work right anymore so I had to manually adjust it to get the screen right. But on a fresh install of Win2k everything worked just fine :)
