eVGA's GeForce FX 5700 Personal Cinema - The Software

If you have read our NVIDIA Forceware Multimedia review, you already know the ups and downs of the software. And the cliffnote version, if you haven't, is: a good all-in-one design, but it isn't really up to par with ATI, and it should be available for download later this summer without 10 ft. UI support. A 10 ft. UI version is scheduled for the fall; at least, that is what NVIDIA is planning at the moment.

The only difference in eVGA's version of Forceware Multimedia (aka FWM) is that they override the menu that NVIDIA provides and uses their own in-house main menu, not quite originally called "eVGA's main menu program." They have progressed a lot, since their original main menu on their GeForce4 MX 440-8X Personal Cinema. You can still get to the FWM's main menu by manually starting the program from the start menu (in eVGA's install, there is no desktop shortcut), but once you hit the home button in FWM, it will switch to eVGA's main menu (it runs in the system tray, so it maximizes itself and manually opens when the system starts). We would like to see some option to not have it open when the system starts (if there is a way, we haven't found it), since it gets to be annoying after a while.

We should note that this screenshot was taken at 800 x 600 desktop resolution, and as you increase the resolution, the blue space around the menu gets larger. However, the fonts, icons, buttons, etc. does not scale up at the same time, which they should.

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As we mentioned in the FWM review, the "edit a movie" and "burn a movie" (slightly different from FWM's "author" and "edit"), don't use NVIDA's in-house software. Like previous Personal Cinemas, NVIDIA is licensing Ulead's DVD MovieFactory 2.5 SE and VideoStudio 7 SE DVD.

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