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Did you also install the role of Quality Windows Audio and video Experinece? That helped me with the audio on my Win2k8 box.

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I am adding Crysis to my list of working games. Runs like a champ.

[ewalker]

Hello Stige,

Welcome to the windows 2008 workstation forum.

Regards,
Ed

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Bioshock works great on win2k8 server. Ahh, my first DX10 game. 🙂

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I had a similar problem with the Asus ACPI driver for vista. I was able to unzip the file and go into the extracted files and copy the sys file into my c:windowssystem32 folder. After that the driver installed correctly. You may want to give that a try. You could also try to run the driver installer as an administrator by right clicking on the file, select properties and go into the compatibility tab and select run as administrator. You can also just right click on the file and select run as administrator.

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Hi Guys,

Thank you for your help. None of the MPEG-2 codecs were showing up in Codec selector. I had to go into Server Manager and remove the “Quality Windows Audio Video Experience”, reboot and then re-add it. After the reinstall, all of the codecs showed up. I can now play DVD’s in Media Player. I want to thank all of you for your help.

Regards,
Ed

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Hi Guys,

Thank you for the reply. I guess you are correct about media player. I was just trying to make my Windows 2008 Workstation the same as my XP box. It is no problem for me to use VLC Media Player for all video files. It seems to work properly. Did anyone figure out how to turn on automatic codec downloads in Media Player under server 2008? Seems to be greyed out on all server 2008 boxes.

Thanks,
Ed

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Never mind. I had windows recreate the registry key that was missing by re-enabling the context menu stuff in the start menu properties. Sorry for the false alarm. 😳

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Welcome to the site. 😛

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