[SOLVED] DXVA2 Acceleration on Nvidia Ion?

[DJ A1ien]

I have an Nvidia Ion on Win 7 as my client box, and regardless of the HW acceleration setting in Steam it's still running software decoding. The Ion should be capable of DXVA2 GPU acceleration; is this old hardware just not supported or am I perhaps missing something obvious?

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Just to update this, with a big thanks to XanderChaos for this blurb in the Beta thread:

"Also, it took me a good 20 minutes to figure out that you need the DX9 redistributable installed for DXVA HWA to work. Had a clean install of Windows 8.1 and couldn't figure out why I wasn't getting HWA. Just a reminder for anyone who is having "slow decode" issue."

Since this was a clean client PC build for me with the only intent to be streamed content, I never thought to install the DX9 redist package. Immediately after installation, hardware acceleration is working like a charm (verified with host PC streaming logs).

[MDuh]

I'm also asking valve how to know if I'm using DXVA2 video processing or not, and how to activate if not

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream/discussions/0/540732596667911331/

[DJ A1ien]

Originally posted by MDuh:

I'm also asking valve how to know if I'm using DXVA2 video processing or not, and how to activate if not

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream/discussions/0/540732596667911331/

You can tell if acceleration is being used by looking at the streaming_log file on your host PC in steam/logs. That's how I can see that my Ion box is always using the software decoder even though it should be DXVA2 capable. Hope that helps!