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<blockquote data-quote="opentoideas" data-source="post: 367937" data-attributes="member: 87859">Hi,new to this and liking it so far.unlike MCE my first play with Mediaportal is very positive and it was simple to set up and &quot;just works&quot; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />what a refreshing change!I have hit a slight stumbling block on my second machine.I use an old Toshiba laptop for a bedroom HTPC and currently it locks at the &quot;initialising directX&quot; screen.now although the specs say the graphics chipset (852GME) supports directX9 I am wondering if this may be my problem.in fairness the laptop only has 512Mb RAM so I need to improve that but I don't want to do this if the graphics are not compatible with Mediaportal anyway.it currently runs Vista media centre without issue so I was hoping that if it could cope with MS bloatware I would be OK.could anyone confirm if they have Mediaportal working on this graphics chipset? I really hope so as I don't want to have to go back to VMC if I can avoid it.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />I will try a fresh install of Vista or XP and see if that helps but this was a fairly recent install</blockquote>

[QUOTE="opentoideas, post: 367937, member: 87859"] Hi, new to this and liking it so far. unlike MCE my first play with Mediaportal is very positive and it was simple to set up and "just works" :D what a refreshing change! I have hit a slight stumbling block on my second machine. I use an old Toshiba laptop for a bedroom HTPC and currently it locks at the "initialising directX" screen. now although the specs say the graphics chipset (852GME) supports directX9 I am wondering if this may be my problem. in fairness the laptop only has 512Mb RAM so I need to improve that but I don't want to do this if the graphics are not compatible with Mediaportal anyway. it currently runs Vista media centre without issue so I was hoping that if it could cope with MS bloatware I would be OK. could anyone confirm if they have Mediaportal working on this graphics chipset? I really hope so as I don't want to have to go back to VMC if I can avoid it.:thx: I will try a fresh install of Vista or XP and see if that helps but this was a fairly recent install [/QUOTE]

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