2007-11-25, 05:14 PM
I am running a 2.4GHz P4 with 1G RAM, 7600GS AGP, PVR-150 and HVR-1600, XP. I have the setup working pretty well and I thought would share some of the tweaks that helped FWIW:
-Big thing: shut off task manager. Made a huge difference on HD TV.
-Running FSE and also set it up to run GBPVR from a batch file and loading the application with high priority. The high priority part may not have made any difference, sub can speak to it on whether or not the live TV threads are already run at high priority within GBPVR.
-Using nVidia PureVideo decoder. Used the registry import of the tweak for Purevideo that can be found on the forums here. Works much better than trying to manually adjust the Purevideo settings.
-Manually shut off the wireless network monitor. The d-link network monitor that I am using generates continuous hard disk activity. If I shut that down the hard drive activity goes away(but I still have internet connectivity).
-Shut off all the eye candy in XP, all the window affects. XP looks very vanilla now but that's unimportant.
-Using the latest nVidia drivers.
A P2.4G machine is on the low end for running HD but it's working pretty well. There isn't any stuttering except for the occasional single shot stutter(stutter every few seconds or so). Not sure if this is a processing issue or strength of signal issue. I am having problems with certain HD channels causing crashes. I do get motion blur on sports programming but again not sure if this is a processing issue.
Analog TV works flawlessly, it's only the HD portion that shows some flaws as noted above.
-Big thing: shut off task manager. Made a huge difference on HD TV.
-Running FSE and also set it up to run GBPVR from a batch file and loading the application with high priority. The high priority part may not have made any difference, sub can speak to it on whether or not the live TV threads are already run at high priority within GBPVR.
-Using nVidia PureVideo decoder. Used the registry import of the tweak for Purevideo that can be found on the forums here. Works much better than trying to manually adjust the Purevideo settings.
-Manually shut off the wireless network monitor. The d-link network monitor that I am using generates continuous hard disk activity. If I shut that down the hard drive activity goes away(but I still have internet connectivity).
-Shut off all the eye candy in XP, all the window affects. XP looks very vanilla now but that's unimportant.
-Using the latest nVidia drivers.
A P2.4G machine is on the low end for running HD but it's working pretty well. There isn't any stuttering except for the occasional single shot stutter(stutter every few seconds or so). Not sure if this is a processing issue or strength of signal issue. I am having problems with certain HD channels causing crashes. I do get motion blur on sports programming but again not sure if this is a processing issue.
Analog TV works flawlessly, it's only the HD portion that shows some flaws as noted above.