General questions about Vista64 and GBPVR .... what to do?

[8ace]

Hi, I run GBPVR merrily on an XP/32bit machine .... and with great difficulties on a seperate HP Vista 64 with 12GB RAM, Intel i7 etc. I can generally get it to run for a week or two but after that time things always degrade:

1. TV schedules don't always happen automatically
2. GBPVR tray does not respond (just hangs or runs VERY slowly which is odd for a fast machine)
3. PVR does not respond..... (left mouse does nothing)

I regularly reboot, reinstall, reregister filters and re-run mc2xml as Administrator (NOTHING works if not Administrator), and regularly rescan cahnnels (seems to help) .... so my question is... is there an idiots guide to install for Vista 64?

BTW it's an HP with a HVR-1800 (same as I have in my XP machine)

Could this be a driver problem? should I install Hauppauge drivers first from the web? (the HVR was bundled so I have no disks).

[mvallevand]

I think your main problem is that configuring and updating GB-PVR takes a knowledge of Vista and Win 7 that many people don't have. Why not consider an update to NPVR which eliminates most problems with UAC etc?

Martin

[pBS]

have you tried turning uac off?

oh and is it a vista ver with media center in it?

[8ace]

I shyed away from Media Center (it came with my version of vista) .... never enabled it to the best of my knowledge.


My machine is an i7 with 12gigs ram. You think I should bite the bullet and go for it? (i assume I enable media center and then install npvr?)

And re. UAC - how can I turn it off? I tried giving admin rights to my user ID - is that not enough?

thanks guys!

[8ace]

how do I turn UAC off? :o

[McBainUK]

how do I turn UAC off? :o

Google is your friend...
http://www.petri.co.il/disable_uac_in_windows_vista.htm (method #4)
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-v...ows-vista/

[8ace]

thanks, and you're right ... google is a good friend :-)

and wow - turning off UAC seems to be a bit risky, no?

I am wondering if I should ditch gbpvr and go for NPVR :-)