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<blockquote data-quote="Mew" data-source="post: 275976" data-attributes="member: 29012">Hi BeechusI have run MediaPortal with both Windows XP (SP2) and Vista. In my experience I have found Vista to be slightly better than XP. It seems more stable and power management seems more reliable. In XP I had a problem that if I enabled hardware acceleration for my NVidia 8500GT, TV would always stutter very slightly after the HTPC woke up from hibernation. I have never had this problem in Vista. NVidia have now finally improved their Vista drivers to be nearly as configurable under Vista as they were under XP. You also have the advantage of being able to use hardware accelerated EVR and that VIsta is actively marketed, supported and developed by Microsoft whereas they are desperately trying (unsuccessfully at the moment) to kill XP off (or at least let it whither and die).Of course peoples' experiences of Vista depend on how well their hardware runs on Vista. I was lucky that I built my HTPC from scratch in April 2007 and tried to make sure that all hardware I bought would work in Vista (as well as MediaPortal).I disabled the green button on my remote from activating Media Center by following the instructions here:<a href="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/GeneralUserGuides/GreenButton" target="_blank">GeneralUserGuides/GreenButton - MediaPortal Wiki Documentation</a>Hope this helps.Mew</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mew, post: 275976, member: 29012"] Hi Beechus I have run MediaPortal with both Windows XP (SP2) and Vista. In my experience I have found Vista to be slightly better than XP. It seems more stable and power management seems more reliable. In XP I had a problem that if I enabled hardware acceleration for my NVidia 8500GT, TV would always stutter very slightly after the HTPC woke up from hibernation. I have never had this problem in Vista. NVidia have now finally improved their Vista drivers to be nearly as configurable under Vista as they were under XP. You also have the advantage of being able to use hardware accelerated EVR and that VIsta is actively marketed, supported and developed by Microsoft whereas they are desperately trying (unsuccessfully at the moment) to kill XP off (or at least let it whither and die). Of course peoples' experiences of Vista depend on how well their hardware runs on Vista. I was lucky that I built my HTPC from scratch in April 2007 and tried to make sure that all hardware I bought would work in Vista (as well as MediaPortal). I disabled the green button on my remote from activating Media Center by following the instructions here: [url=http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/GeneralUserGuides/GreenButton]GeneralUserGuides/GreenButton - MediaPortal Wiki Documentation[/url] Hope this helps. Mew [/QUOTE]

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