Hardware Requirements for HD

[aglennon]

I am having major problems getting my Fusion card to work in my system. I was wondering if anyone knows what the minimum HW specs are for recording or watching live HD on the server.

I currently have p4 1.8ghz, 512meg ram, 2x200gb HD with (2) PVR-150's. I just added a Fusion Gold card to the mix.

Thanks,

[stanger89]

Are you having trouble playing, recording, both?

Recording should be fine on that, playback could be tough depending on video card, what video card do you have? What decoders? Do you have hardware ac

[aglennon]

So far I have just been trying to get the HD card setup and have all channels mapped properly so I really have not tried to record yet. When I try to watch live HD, my CPU pegs at 100% and Sage either becomes sluggish or just locks up. I will try not to watch and just schedule something to record.

Video card is and ATI 32meg PCI card. Now that I type that it sounds weak.

[rfutscher]

I also have a 1.8 GHz Pentium computer that I use as a server. It has a HDWonder, a Fusion USB and a Video Blaster to tune the various channels.

I found that I have to uninstall the Fusion software before installing or updating the Sage software. It looks like Sage overwrites some files used by the Fusion software. I install or update Sage and then reinstall the Fusion software. If I don't do this I get a Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD).
After the software is installed, I do a channel scan with the Fusion signal check app. Just to make sure everything is working. I then run the main Fusion software and configure it. Only then do I add the Fusion card to the Sage software.

I sure wish Sage would play nice with the Fusion drivers.

I can watch TV on the server for testing, but for good clean playback I use a faster computer and Sage client.

I also have a 1Gb network card and fairly new disk drives formatted with large blocks. The new disk drives are faster than my older boot drive. I also have a USB card with a power connector that I hook a disk drive power cable to. The Fusion USB draws a lot of power.

Originally Posted by aglennon

I am having major problems getting my Fusion card to work in my system. I was wondering if anyone knows what the minimum HW specs are for recording or watching live HD on the server.

I currently have p4 1.8ghz, 512meg ram, 2x200gb HD with (2) PVR-150's. I just added a Fusion Gold card to the mix.

Thanks,

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by aglennon

So far I have just been trying to get the HD card setup and have all channels mapped properly so I really have not tried to record yet. When I try to watch live HD, my CPU pegs at 100% and Sage either becomes sluggish or just locks up. I will try not to watch and just schedule something to record.

Video card is and ATI 32meg PCI card. Now that I type that it sounds weak.

A PCI video card with 32mb of ram that probably doesn't support DirectX 7 let alone 8 or 9 is NOT going to get you HD. I would think you would need at least an AGP 4x-8x with at least 128MB of RAM that at least supports DirectX 8 in hardware to even start thinking about palying a HD recording.

Gerry