Video playback problems with 7600GS

External Since: Dec 24, 2006 Posts: 1

Hi All,
Recently I upgraded my graphics card to an nVidia GeForce 7600 GS for the
AGP interface. Games have been running exceedingly well with this card.
Unfortunately my system refuses to play video now.

Normally this wouldn't be a problem, as I don't watch many videos on my PC.
However, certain games like SBK2001 have a video intro, so in effect I'm now
locked out of these games.

I have tried both the 91.47 and 93.71 drivers and neither works. As
mentioned in other forum posts, if I turn off hardware acceleration video
works, but unfortunately games do not, so this is not a solution.

Now I could be wrong, but I'm sure my system used to play video with this
card and I suspect things started to go wrong after a windows update had put
WMP11 on my system. I originally suspected WMP11 and have since rolled it
back to WMP10 but I'm still getting the same issues.

Some forum posts have recommended going back to the 84.21 drivers, but these
won't install on my system - they claim that I have incompatible hardware.

Is there any solution to this one? Am I the only person seeing this? If I
cannot get a solution I may well have to change my hardware to another
vendor.

Thanks
RobP
'There are only 10 types of people in this world - Those that understand
binary and those that don't'

External Since: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 1

"Rob Pollard" <robertapollard RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:PHtjh.141078$bz5.72579@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> Hi All,
> Recently I upgraded my graphics card to an nVidia GeForce 7600 GS for the
> AGP interface. Games have been running exceedingly well with this card.
> Unfortunately my system refuses to play video now.
>
> Normally this wouldn't be a problem, as I don't watch many videos on my
> PC. However, certain games like SBK2001 have a video intro, so in effect
> I'm now locked out of these games.
>
> I have tried both the 91.47 and 93.71 drivers and neither works. As
> mentioned in other forum posts, if I turn off hardware acceleration video
> works, but unfortunately games do not, so this is not a solution.
>
> Now I could be wrong, but I'm sure my system used to play video with this
> card and I suspect things started to go wrong after a windows update had
> put WMP11 on my system. I originally suspected WMP11 and have since rolled
> it back to WMP10 but I'm still getting the same issues.
>
> Some forum posts have recommended going back to the 84.21 drivers, but
> these won't install on my system - they claim that I have incompatible
> hardware.
>
> Is there any solution to this one? Am I the only person seeing this? If I
> cannot get a solution I may well have to change my hardware to another
> vendor.
>
> Thanks
> RobP
> 'There are only 10 types of people in this world - Those that understand
> binary and those that don't'
>

I have the same problem on a similar rig. Haven't been able to fix it. Funny
thing though is that a reboot allows me to watch vids for a while before the
exceedingly dark gamma returns. I've tried everything, new drivers, new
codecs, new players, etc. Lemme know if you find out what was wrong cause
I've given in on being able to fix it.