zx85
January 8th, 2010, 03:46 PM
I want to post some help for anyone Installing Boxee on 2008 Server.
First off my Install is working well right now, but I haven't tested all the apps.
Prepping the system:
Enable the sound service
Enable DX and OpenGL support by right click the desktop going to display then to trouble shooting and scroll the pointer all the way right to full hardware acceleration.
I have a 7800GTX installed so I needed to install the NVidia Drivers for Vista (2008 is not an OS supported by NVidia)
Install the windows updates and the .NET framework updates
Installing Boxee:
I installed boxee beta 0.9.20.10261
During the install it will tell you the installer has crashed. At this point the file being executed should be the Visual C Redistributable package. (The data from this package is already loaded through the .net and other language packages installed by default)
The boxee installer will continue and once its finished it works great.
Reference Specs
Intel E4400 Dore 2 Duo
2 GB RAM
160 GB Hard Drive
Onboard Realtek Sound
NVidia 7800GTX
Intel GT 1000 NIC
Additional mostly irrelevant information
Multiple users are logged on and using this computer at any given time
The system in using true crypt full disk encryption
The system host a web server, DB server, File Server, Torrent client, and FTP server
No load issues have arrisen yet with the exception of transferring large files while watching HD movies.
First off my Install is working well right now, but I haven't tested all the apps.
Prepping the system:
Enable the sound service
Enable DX and OpenGL support by right click the desktop going to display then to trouble shooting and scroll the pointer all the way right to full hardware acceleration.
I have a 7800GTX installed so I needed to install the NVidia Drivers for Vista (2008 is not an OS supported by NVidia)
Install the windows updates and the .NET framework updates
Installing Boxee:
I installed boxee beta 0.9.20.10261
During the install it will tell you the installer has crashed. At this point the file being executed should be the Visual C Redistributable package. (The data from this package is already loaded through the .net and other language packages installed by default)
The boxee installer will continue and once its finished it works great.
Reference Specs
Intel E4400 Dore 2 Duo
2 GB RAM
160 GB Hard Drive
Onboard Realtek Sound
NVidia 7800GTX
Intel GT 1000 NIC
Additional mostly irrelevant information
Multiple users are logged on and using this computer at any given time
The system in using true crypt full disk encryption
The system host a web server, DB server, File Server, Torrent client, and FTP server
No load issues have arrisen yet with the exception of transferring large files while watching HD movies.