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GeForce3, very dark video
I just put a new LiteOn Combo drive in a Win2000 system I've had in my
office for a while, to occasionally watch movies on DVD. I've installed PowerDVD 6, an OEM version. The DVD plays but the movie is extremely dark, so dark it's hard to make anything out at all, and there is no apparent color. Tried reinstalling PowerDVD, made no difference. Does not respond to any of the controls in PowerDVD. At first I thought it was the new drive that had a problem, or possibly PowerDVD, but I find I can't watch small video files on Windows Media Player either. The same problem, extremely dark image. So I'm wondering if there's some problem with my graphics card, a GeForce3 Ti 200. I've installed the 93.71 drivers. Monitor is a 15" LCD. Other than trying to play a DVD or WMP video, the display looks great. No problem running a graphics benchmark like 3DMark2000. I find I can get pretty normal brightness and color with DVDs in PowerDVD and video files in WMP only by moving the Hardware Acceleration slider down to the 3rd position, "Disable all DirectDraw and Direct3D accelerations." I've never had to do that before on any computer. Is it possible that my drivers are too new for good video performance on this GeForce3? If so, can anyone recommend more suitable drivers? Neil |
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roll back the drivers to 44.x or thereabouts, even 28s should do your card.
"Neil Harrington" wrote in message . .. I just put a new LiteOn Combo drive in a Win2000 system I've had in my office for a while, to occasionally watch movies on DVD. I've installed PowerDVD 6, an OEM version. The DVD plays but the movie is extremely dark, so dark it's hard to make anything out at all, and there is no apparent color. Tried reinstalling PowerDVD, made no difference. Does not respond to any of the controls in PowerDVD. At first I thought it was the new drive that had a problem, or possibly PowerDVD, but I find I can't watch small video files on Windows Media Player either. The same problem, extremely dark image. So I'm wondering if there's some problem with my graphics card, a GeForce3 Ti 200. I've installed the 93.71 drivers. Monitor is a 15" LCD. Other than trying to play a DVD or WMP video, the display looks great. No problem running a graphics benchmark like 3DMark2000. I find I can get pretty normal brightness and color with DVDs in PowerDVD and video files in WMP only by moving the Hardware Acceleration slider down to the 3rd position, "Disable all DirectDraw and Direct3D accelerations." I've never had to do that before on any computer. Is it possible that my drivers are too new for good video performance on this GeForce3? If so, can anyone recommend more suitable drivers? Neil |
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You can also try resetting all your color settings, in Nvidia's
control panel. This has been known to fix this specific problem. "tony h" wrote in message ... roll back the drivers to 44.x or thereabouts, even 28s should do your card. "Neil Harrington" wrote in message . .. I just put a new LiteOn Combo drive in a Win2000 system I've had in my office for a while, to occasionally watch movies on DVD. I've installed PowerDVD 6, an OEM version. The DVD plays but the movie is extremely dark, so dark it's hard to make anything out at all, and there is no apparent color. Tried reinstalling PowerDVD, made no difference. Does not respond to any of the controls in PowerDVD. At first I thought it was the new drive that had a problem, or possibly PowerDVD, but I find I can't watch small video files on Windows Media Player either. The same problem, extremely dark image. So I'm wondering if there's some problem with my graphics card, a GeForce3 Ti 200. I've installed the 93.71 drivers. Monitor is a 15" LCD. Other than trying to play a DVD or WMP video, the display looks great. No problem running a graphics benchmark like 3DMark2000. I find I can get pretty normal brightness and color with DVDs in PowerDVD and video files in WMP only by moving the Hardware Acceleration slider down to the 3rd position, "Disable all DirectDraw and Direct3D accelerations." I've never had to do that before on any computer. Is it possible that my drivers are too new for good video performance on this GeForce3? If so, can anyone recommend more suitable drivers? Neil |
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Thanks to both of you. I did install the 56.55 drivers last night before
seeing these replies (no reason for that particular number, just thought I'd try some much older drivers and sort of eeny-meeny-minie-moe) and that seems to have fixed the problem. If there's any further problem I will try 44.x and/or resetting the color settings as you suggest. Neil wrote in message et... You can also try resetting all your color settings, in Nvidia's control panel. This has been known to fix this specific problem. "tony h" wrote in message ... roll back the drivers to 44.x or thereabouts, even 28s should do your card. "Neil Harrington" wrote in message . .. I just put a new LiteOn Combo drive in a Win2000 system I've had in my office for a while, to occasionally watch movies on DVD. I've installed PowerDVD 6, an OEM version. The DVD plays but the movie is extremely dark, so dark it's hard to make anything out at all, and there is no apparent color. Tried reinstalling PowerDVD, made no difference. Does not respond to any of the controls in PowerDVD. At first I thought it was the new drive that had a problem, or possibly PowerDVD, but I find I can't watch small video files on Windows Media Player either. The same problem, extremely dark image. So I'm wondering if there's some problem with my graphics card, a GeForce3 Ti 200. I've installed the 93.71 drivers. Monitor is a 15" LCD. Other than trying to play a DVD or WMP video, the display looks great. No problem running a graphics benchmark like 3DMark2000. I find I can get pretty normal brightness and color with DVDs in PowerDVD and video files in WMP only by moving the Hardware Acceleration slider down to the 3rd position, "Disable all DirectDraw and Direct3D accelerations." I've never had to do that before on any computer. Is it possible that my drivers are too new for good video performance on this GeForce3? If so, can anyone recommend more suitable drivers? Neil |
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With that older video card I would recommend sticking with the 45.23 driver
for stability under varying software. -- DaveW ___________ "Neil Harrington" wrote in message . .. I just put a new LiteOn Combo drive in a Win2000 system I've had in my office for a while, to occasionally watch movies on DVD. I've installed PowerDVD 6, an OEM version. The DVD plays but the movie is extremely dark, so dark it's hard to make anything out at all, and there is no apparent color. Tried reinstalling PowerDVD, made no difference. Does not respond to any of the controls in PowerDVD. At first I thought it was the new drive that had a problem, or possibly PowerDVD, but I find I can't watch small video files on Windows Media Player either. The same problem, extremely dark image. So I'm wondering if there's some problem with my graphics card, a GeForce3 Ti 200. I've installed the 93.71 drivers. Monitor is a 15" LCD. Other than trying to play a DVD or WMP video, the display looks great. No problem running a graphics benchmark like 3DMark2000. I find I can get pretty normal brightness and color with DVDs in PowerDVD and video files in WMP only by moving the Hardware Acceleration slider down to the 3rd position, "Disable all DirectDraw and Direct3D accelerations." I've never had to do that before on any computer. Is it possible that my drivers are too new for good video performance on this GeForce3? If so, can anyone recommend more suitable drivers? Neil |
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"DaveW" wrote in message . .. With that older video card I would recommend sticking with the 45.23 driver for stability under varying software. Thanks, Dave. I was thinking of going back to the 45.23 myself as I often did use that because of its reputation for stability with older hardware and Win98SE. I thought Win2000 might be different, and so far the 56.55 seems to be working OK, but if any problem develops I will go back to 45.23. Neil |
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