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I've been thinking about this a little bit further.
Isn't the whole point of purchasing this machine to utilize the gpu with the ION?
With that said, I will be installing xbmc live and documenting the process in retaining windows 7 as well.
Update: I installed the new nvidia drivers and flash 10.1 and still have audio via hdmi.
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It still seems pretty buggy.
I'm confident MPC-HC is more stable right now.
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My 3610 box had video and sound over HDMI working out of the box.
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ok, just a update, I figured out what was wrong with the HDMI audio.
the new Nvidia Control panel defaults to HDMI no audio pass through. fixed in change resolution in the Nvidia CPL
other than that, the machine is a touch faster in Win7, and (something i failed to mention before) 720p works great, versus the crappy job the XP driver was doing.
(had to have it 1360x768 for text to look good. 1280x720 looked like it was doing bad scaling) (I had no problems with a older Nvidia 5800. they must have changed the drivers in XP somehow)
Windows 7 - XBMC live Dualboot
Acer Aspire REVO R1600 - PS3 Remote
Nvidia ION LE 230
3GB Ram
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My R3610 arrived today and I plan to run XBMC and Squeezebox Server on it. Does XBMC on Windows 7 support 720p playback with acceleration on the R3610 or will I have to consider using Ubuntu instead?
Thanks for any help offered.
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sneeks
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Thanks, I'll read more details on XBMC Live as this may better match my existing Apple TV solution. Can this be run from a memory card or USB drive in order to retain W7 on the main HDD? If doing so will wifi continue to work as I was hoping to use XBMC Remote on my iPhone to control everything?
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All you have to do in Win7 is use a player that supports GPU, such as MPC-HC.
Then it works perfectly.
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I had hoped to maintain the Library view and scrapers that XBMC on the Apple TV uses but most of my files are SD so I could always use XBMC for those and MPC-HC for the very few HD files I will be watching.