Computers that work fine with DirecTV2PC

[veryoldschool]

This is to help those that want to use this program.
Please don't post other than computers that work, as there are many other threads

CPU & Video cards seem to be the main requirements. If you don't know what you have but do know your computer model, then post it.


2.33 GHz Core2 Duo, Nvidia 8800GT
3 GHz PentiumD, Nvidia 6600GT with analog monitor
3.4 GHz Pentium 4 HT, ATI [Asus] 3650, plays everything but local MPEG-4 1080i

[ljnskywalker]

17" MacBook Pro Running Windows Vista via Boot Camp, 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB Ram, GeForce 8600M GT

[dave29]

1. 6600(2.66 ghz) quad core, 768mb 8800 gt
2. 8400(3.0 ghz) core 2 duo, 256mb visiontek x1650 hd
3. T5450(1.67 ghz) core 2 duo, Geforce 8400M gs (believe it or not, this laptop displays all content perfectly)
4. 8400(3.0 ghz) core 2 duo, intel g45 onboard chipset(asus P5Q-EM mobo)no video card

all of the above computers have 4gb ram and have vista ultimate

[pikespeakhiker]

1. Dell D830, T7500 (2.2ghz) core 2 duo, 4gb ram, nvidia quadro 135 w/256mb - plays everything fine
2. Dell Dimension 8400, 3.2 ghz Pentium 4, 2gb ram, nvidia 9600gt w/512mb - plays everything fine except for 1080i OTA mpeg-2 with a little stutter - if I allow to buffer enough it clears it up

[ToddinVA]

Mine is a 2.5 year old Sony Vaio SZ-120P: 13.3" screen, first generation Intel Core Duo at 1.83 Ghz (T2400), NVidia GeForce Go 7400, 2 GB of RAM, 802.11g WiFi, replaced XP with Vista. Works pretty well. Sometimes I get a little stuttering.

[KCCardsfan]

SD works perfect on my 3 yr old Toshiba A105-S4001, HD has some stutter:
Intel T1300 1.66GHz
1.0 GB Ram
Intel Graphics Media 128MB
Windows XP
802.11 B/G wireless @ 54Mbps
HR20-700 running 0x292

This laptop is very basic, not much power at all. Very pleased (and shocked) that DirecTV2PC works!

[pete4192]

Working fine.


Acer Extensa 5420
MS Vista
AMD Turion 64 x2 TL-58
2 GB DDR2
802.11g

[Grentz]

C2D e6600
nVidia 7900GS
2gb RAM
Hardwired Gigabit LAN
Vista X64 Business

C2D T7300
Intel X3100
2gb RAM
Wireless G (works with SD great, HD jitters)
Vista X64 Home Premium

[506PIR]

Dell Dimension 4700 ( 2 plus years old)
Xp SP3
Pentium 4 @ 2.80 GHz
4 Gigs of Ram (corsair) ddr2
ati x300
Video Plays fine. Hd takes a few seconds at the beginning to finally play smoothly
Im happy with it
Oh but I do plan on building my own rig with much better specs

[t_h]

Desktop with Asus p5b motherboard, core 2 duo 1.83ghz, x3000 integrated graphics, panasonic powerline network.

Dell e1705 laptop, core 2 duo 2.0ghz, 945GM integrated graphics, dell 1390 11g network.

Both play SD and HD content just fine from an HR20 attached to the router. Havent tried doing HD content from the other HR20 which is powerline attached to the same network as the desktop. I'll try that tomorrow.

Note this is NOT the directv powerline product, this is an alleged HD capable powerline product from Panasonic that everyone has been selling for next to nothing.

[dettxw]

Both work flawlessly (though the desktop has a lot more horsepower so uses less CPU):

Desktop
Dell XPS 420
2.4GHz Quad Core Q6600
4GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB
24" HDCP-compliant LCD (DVI)
Wired to WRT600N Dual-band (2.4 & 5GHz) Wireless N Gigabit Router
Vista Ultimate

Laptop
Dell XPS M1530
2.2GHz Core2 Duo T7500
4GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 256MB
Intel 4965AGN Dual band Wireless N (set to 5MHz)
Vista Home Premium

DVRs are networked wirelessly with WGA600N adapters set to 5MHz

[Zamps]

I just downloaded it this evening. It worked like a charm after a restart.

HP dv9700 notebook
Core 2 Duo T8100 2.10 Ghz
3 GB RAM
Nvidia GeoForce 8600M GS

[kbxm]

Homebuilt PC

P4 3.0Ghz, 3 GB RAM dual booting XP MCE/Vista Ultimate
Evga 9600GT video
Connected via a Home Powerline

SD works fine, HD is quite jerky over HPN even after letting it buffer for a while.

If I connect it via 1GHz ethernet it works fine on both, but CPU is hitting around 85% so D2PC apparently isn't using the HW for acceleration.

One other quirk, on XP it's nice and clear on Vista it's quite blocky/fuzzy with the latest nvidia drivers.

[veryoldschool]

Homebuilt PC

P4 3.0Ghz, 3 GB RAM dual booting XP MCE/Vista Ultimate
Evga 9600GT video
Connected via a Home Powerline

SD works fine, HD is quite jerky over HPN even after letting it buffer for a while.

If I connect it via 1GHz ethernet it works fine on both, but CPU is hitting around 85% so D2PC apparently isn't using the HW for acceleration.

One other quirk, on XP it's nice and clear on Vista it's quite blocky/fuzzy with the latest nvidia drivers.
Then I'd say it isn't "really" working "fine", but you're "close".
If you can overclock your CPU up to 3.3 GHz, "I'd bet" you'll see it work better.

[sngalla]

Homebuilt

Core2 Duo E8400 @ 3GHz processor
2.75 GB RAM
eVGA 8800GT 512MB video
eVGA 780i motherboard
Win XP Pro SP3
Dell 2407 24" monitor
Gigabit Wired Ethernet

No problems yet.

[Mike Bertelson]

Intel Pentium Dual Core T2390 (1.86GHz 533Mhz, 1M L2 Cache)
3GB, DDR2, 667MHz 2 Dimm
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100

This works fine. I've even played the 1080p downloads. I honestly don't know if that makes a difference but it worked just fine.

Usually when it first starts is a little choppy. If I pause and play it smoothes right out and is fine.

In my case I run some distributed software and have to "snooze' it when I run DirecTV2PC.

I suspect there are other programs or TSRs that people need to disable if they're having problems.

Mike

[kki000]

gateway lap, m6862
t5750 2.0ghz 2mb cache
ati2600
4gb ram
builtin 802.11n
vista

working great, no stutters on hd, havent tried 1080p and i dont think i ever will.

[jdmac29]

HP M8047C Media Center PC
2.13ghz dual core 3gb ram
Nvidia Geforce 8400GS

hardwired to hr20-700
wireless to hr21-700 (linksys wga600n) wireless to netgear 614( standardG) hardwired to computer. 1080 stuff(wireless only) can be a little jittery so make sure no programs are running in the backgroungd.

[Crypter]

3.33 Ghz Core2Duo
4 GB DDR2-1600 RAM
Radeon 4870 1GB DDR3 PCI Express 2.0
Vista
24" 1900x1200 LCD Flat Panel...

Laptop LEnovo T60p
Intel Core2Duo 2.16 Ghz
2 GB Ram
ATI Mobility FireGL 5250 512 MB Ram
XP Media Center
Wireless G

I pre-wired my whole house for ethernet so all my Receivers and my Desktop PC are all wired with Ethernet... Even though the Laptop is Wireless G it stillw orks even with all my HD programming perfectly smooth.

[ATARI]

homebuilt:
3.0GHz Core2 Duo
4G RAM
XFX 8800GTS video card
Windows XP (sp3)

DirecTV2PC working flawlessly so far (used about three hours on Sunday).

[waynebtx]

Have a Gateway GT5662 AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-Core 2.20 Ghz with 3 GB ATI Radeon HD 2400TX video. Works great. AT&T 6mbps DSL

[man_rob]

It works fine on this PC

Edited as per veryoldschool. I left in the networking stuff because the DirecTV program gave me a yellow, (a suggestion to upgrade it) and the graphics accelerator got an unknown, but it works fine anyway.

Sony - VAIO VGN-FW270J/W


Processor Platform
Intel® Centrino® 2
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Processor
Intel® Core™2 Duo Mobile
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Processor Speed
2.26GHz
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Operating System
Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
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System Memory (RAM)
4GB
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Type of Memory (RAM)
PC2-6400
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Graphics
Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD with Intel® Clear Video Technology
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Video Memory
Up to 1750MB total available
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Networking
Built-in 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000-Base-T Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector)
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Wireless Networking
Wireless-A+B+G+N


http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9034341&type=product&id=1218010845704

[john13154]

Intel Core 2 Duo 6700
ATI X1900GT 512 mb ram

System works fine. Computer is hard wired to my 80211.g router.
Watched 1080i programs no problem.

[HDinVT]

The below configuration functions well. Its only lacking in HDCP support. So far this only prohibits me from playing DOD HD programing.

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 1.86GHz [2 Core(s)]
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE

[veryoldschool]

As in the first post, try to keep your posting to CPU & Video chip/card types.
These are the major requirements to have this app work.
I know most are proud of what they have, but since this ISN'T a troubleshooting thread, everything in your computer isn't very useful to others.
Thanks to all for posting what works. :)

Mac users:
Please feel free to post more details of how you've gotten it to work for other mac users and hopefully you can help them through PMs, since this isn't a troubleshooting thread.

[putty469]

AMD Athlon X2 4200+
2GB RAM
Asus 3450 512MB RAM (ATI's latest driver)

[timmmaaayyy2003]

PC:
Toshiba Satelite w/Centrino Duo T2250 1.73GHz
1.5 GB Ram
Vista Home Premium SP1
Video=Mobile Intel 945 Express Chipset

Has to be hardwired to network for HD content or it sutters, but works great on 10/100 Mps

DTV:
HR21-700 w/AM21

[toneman]

1. P4 3.2 GHz, ATI Radeon 9800 (256 MB)
2. Dell Inspiron E1505

[waynebtx]

Gateway NX860X laptop works also.

[redram38]

HP AMD 64x2 6000+
3 gig Ram
7600 Nvidia Card 256 meg
Acer P221w LCD
Wireless N connection

plays perfect

HP AMD 64x2 4200
2 gig Ram
6150 Nvidia On Board Video
HP 19 in LCD
Wired Connection

plays perfect

HP Turion single core 2.2
1 gig mem
ATI 200 express 128 dedicated mem
Laptop Wireless N or G connection

plays SD only

could be due to single core, mem video card or all of these things

This laptop is about 2 years old and by no means a weak anything. IMO DTV should get there program to let these type computers play Directv2PC if at all possible. Not many people will buy a new computer just for this feature.

[ccr1958]

Intel-2.40GHz Q6600-processor

Nvidia-GEForce 9600GT-video card

[kimsan]

Dell Inspiron E1505 Laptop
XP MCE SP3
Intel Core2Duo T2050 1.6GHz
ATI x1300
2GB RAM

All good with all mpeg4 tested.

Homebuilt Nvidia Nforce4 MoBo
XP MCE SP3
Athlon x64 +3800
Nvidia 8600GT
2GB RAM

Hangs on pause of mpeg4 1080i. Might need to go dual core.

[mutelight]

Mac Pro:
2x 2.66Ghz Xeon Woodcrests
nVidia 8800GT
30" Apple Cinema Display without HDCP

[69hokie]

Dell XPS 410
Intel Core2 6600@2.4 GHz, 4GB Ram
NVIDIA GeForce 7900GS

Works very well, all recordings playback smooth.

[smokey99]

Works fine on my Dell XPS 400 and 410

[HearsMusic]

Works perfectly on:

Dell Studio 15 laptop
Core 2 Duo 2.0 Ghz
3 GB ram
ATI Mobility Radeon 256 MB vid card

[cstelter]

Noticed no problems with either SD or HD:

E8400 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo
8500GT Nvidia
wired internet