Hi, did a quick skim through the faqs but didn't come up with anything, so here comes me problem:
I run windows xp and have a new nvidia 7600GT AGP graphics card, my problem is that when I try and play movies using either windows media player, or media player classic, (or any dvd player for that matter on dvds), something goes wrong and nothing starts; i get quite a lot of screen blinking, but no movie starting. This problem can be solved by disabling directdraw and direct 3d accelerations and all cursor and advanced drawing applications under the troubleshooting of the display properties (slider 4 steps away from full, doesn't work on the next step up).
However, when I put all the settings up to full acceleration again, the system is fine happy and stable, i can run dxdiag, no problems in any of the tests there, i can play all my hardware accelerated games no problems. I can't tell if it is a software or hardware related issue from this. to top it all off, when i plug in an old nvidia 5700 agp, the movie playing thing works fine. which says hardware, i guess.
I've thought about it a bit, and the difference i can tell is that the 5700 doesn't need an external power connector, whereas the 7600 does. checked the power rating on my power supply (seasonic 400W), and it was close to being insufficient juice, so got another new one rated for sli (seasonic 500W). but no difference.
Anyone got any ideas on how to pin this down?
I run windows xp and have a new nvidia 7600GT AGP graphics card, my problem is that when I try and play movies using either windows media player, or media player classic, (or any dvd player for that matter on dvds), something goes wrong and nothing starts; i get quite a lot of screen blinking, but no movie starting. This problem can be solved by disabling directdraw and direct 3d accelerations and all cursor and advanced drawing applications under the troubleshooting of the display properties (slider 4 steps away from full, doesn't work on the next step up).
However, when I put all the settings up to full acceleration again, the system is fine happy and stable, i can run dxdiag, no problems in any of the tests there, i can play all my hardware accelerated games no problems. I can't tell if it is a software or hardware related issue from this. to top it all off, when i plug in an old nvidia 5700 agp, the movie playing thing works fine. which says hardware, i guess.
I've thought about it a bit, and the difference i can tell is that the 5700 doesn't need an external power connector, whereas the 7600 does. checked the power rating on my power supply (seasonic 400W), and it was close to being insufficient juice, so got another new one rated for sli (seasonic 500W). but no difference.
Anyone got any ideas on how to pin this down?