Problem with Game Mode (Fixed removing ffdshow)

[Alakar]

If I enable Game Mode, with or without "Disable Game Mode recording", I get the first frame of the picture and that's it. The program doesn't freeze as it still reacts to clicking on the controls, it's like the stream just stops. If I disable Game Mode, everything works fine.

I have a WinTV-HVR-1600 hooked up to a STB via the analog cable connection and I'm using WinTV v7 1.3c on Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit with 4GB of memory. This also occurred on the previous version of WinTV. Based off of some comments in the forums, I tried removing 2GB of memory but still had the same problem.

I've attached a dxdiag.txt with my full system specs as well as logs without Game Mode enabled, with Game Mode enabled, and with Game Mode enabled and Game Mode Recording disabled. I did a full system reboot between each change.

Any help or ideas would be appreciated.

[Alakar]

Gonna bump this. Anybody with any ideas at all? I'm stumped and need some fresh insight.

[Mr X]

It could be ffdshow causing the issue, there shouldn't be an Audio decoder in there.

Other suggestion is try editing the Setttings.xml file and remove these two lines

(Found in C:\Users\Public\WinTV\Settings.xml)

<DeinterlaceFilter>Pinnacle Video Deinterlacer</DeinterlaceFilter>
<DeinterlacePostFilter>Pinnacle CSC</DeinterlacePostFilter>

[Alakar]

It was the ffdshow. I don't recall installing it, but I uninstalled it and it works perfectly now. Thanks so much!

[Mr X]

great - glad it's working