Radeon 9600 for mac g5 driver problems

I have a g5 power pc with a radeon 9600 pro. When I hook it up via dvi/hdmi to my 1080 p projector, the projector recieves the correct resolution 1920/1080 but dvd's play choppy. If I change the resolution to 800.600 the dvd's play fine. Why???

Hi Glenn, the 9600 isn't fast enough...
1920 * 1080 = 2073600
800 * 600 = 480000
2073600 / 480000 = 4.32
The higher resolution requires 4.32 times as much VRAM, & 4.32 times the speed Gpu to display the same thing on a larger screen.
See japamacs page here on the best AGP cards for G4s & G5s...
http://www.jcsenterprises.com/Japamacs_Page/Blog/4B4B7BA2-7ABB-47F1-87AC-B03D379 42BEE.html

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