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Cyberlink powerDVD 9 - disabling hardware acceleration

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Well for Christmas I got a copy of Skyrim and a new blu-ray drive. A little pressed for time, since the spring semester for me begins Monday. So instead of deciding which to do first, play skyrim or finally end up watching Firefly on blu-ray, I decided why not do both?

So far the only program I have capable of playing blu-rays is the copy of PowerDVD that came with the drive. Now, my computer can play blu-rays fine, and play skyrim on high fine. Together, and I get a small amount of stutter in both skyrim and the blu-ray.

Since my i7 isn't even breaking a sweat, I thought disabling hardware acceleration in powerDVD would help kinda distribute the load. So I went and disabled hardware acceleration, but whenever I start up the bluray, it's re-enabled and then greyed out so I can't disable it. Stop the show, and it shows up as disabled again. Tried updating both ATI drivers and powerDVD, nothing. Am I missing something? Should I be doing something in CCC?
 
It may be part of the copy protection (DRM, hdcp).

Never even thought of that...Already ran into one issue due to some DRM-like thing (powerDVD closed with some bizarre message like "movie is locked from playing on separate monitors" when I swung the window from one screen to the next) now there's a chance it's stopping me from being a more efficient geek :( Meh, guess I can live with mild choppiness for the next few days.
 
In my brief research it seems that hardware acceleration is used to perform the real time decoding used by hdcp.
 
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