HOW-TO:Installing OpenELEC/Setting Up Your BIOS

If you are using a system with Nvidia or AMD graphic chipset like ION or Fusion platforms you must set the video memory in the BIOS to 512 MB (or highest available setting). This only affects builds that use VDPAU or XVBA (Fusion, Generic, Ultra, and ION).

The procedure will vary depending on your platform but will look similar to the following procedures

=ION=

=Fusion=

For AMD Fusion Systems it is important to setup a UMA size of 512 MB. You can find this setting in the North Bridge Configuration. This Setting reserves 512 MB of memory to the graphics card and therefore makes XVBA working nicely.

On some older BIOS Versions this setting is not available without upgrading the BIOS, which is not a trivial task and cannot be covered by this page. Attached you find a screenshot of this setting



Once this is done you can continue on to step 3