When SVP start it's working, it also chages it's shape in tray. So if nothing happens with the SVP icon in tray after you launch movie in MPC-HC, it mean that SVP is not working. Most likely reason for this is that there is no any ffdshow program/filter used by MPC-HC while playing video. AFAIK it is required as SVP work is triggered by the ffdshow program/filter. To check if this is so, you are advised to place the mouse over the video while playing video in MPC-HC, press the right button, select in the drop-down menu "Filters". In this problem case there will be no any video-related filters, containing the prefix like "ffdshow" in the list.
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To fix the problem, you are advised adding the ffdshow raw video filter into the list of the external filters of MPC-HC and make it preferable, in the top of the list (as shown in the screenshot attached)

Do you see ffdshow icon in tray area?

After everything was done, i opened a movie in MPC and it played at the standard resolution of 23fps. (I wen't to view->statistics)

The first time it played the SVP icon turned green, but it does not anymore. I have not changed anything so i dunno why.