New driver not work so well...

[Gig-O-Ram]

I downloaded the latest nVidia driver for my 7800GT (91.47), and it didn't do so well. It's not that there were any issues with the driver I was using (81.98), I just wanted to update the driver. I uninstalled the old one, went to safe mode, ran the driver cleaner and installed the new one. Should've worked, right?

When I played a game, it seemed fine, but upon playing a DVD, the video was all F'd up. The screen was dark, the colors were to intense and way off, and the video itself was artifacting big time. I tried adjusting the colors in that new interface that came with the newer driver, but I didn't have a lot of luck with that. In fact, the new interface was lagging my whole system. I would think that the DVD would just play normally, but it didn't. So...I just restored my system and got the other driver back, and now everything is fine.

[liftedcj7on44s]

i use nvidias beta 92.91 drivers and i love em. best image quality ive ever had and my movies look better and check this out!
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/8097/finallyjl7.jpg
now this driver uses the new control panel, but you can go to view and select to use the classic control panel.

[epidemic]

I believe there is a DVD playback issue with some of the newer NVIDIA drivers, and as lifted stated you can select the classic view.

[InThrees]

I used the release driver available a week or so ago when I put XP on this box, and my video playback was very dark. I thought it was a codec issue so I uninstalled/reinstalled various codec packs 3 or 4 times but finally realized it just... wasn't. It's the drivers.

I didn't know what to do other than adjust the brightness and color settings for the video overlay. =/

[Gig-O-Ram]

I used the release driver available a week or so ago when I put XP on this box, and my video playback was very dark. I thought it was a codec issue so I uninstalled/reinstalled various codec packs 3 or 4 times but finally realized it just... wasn't. It's the drivers.

I didn't know what to do other than adjust the brightness and color settings for the video overlay. =/

I didn't think about codecs when I was having the issue, but unless nVidia can resolve the DVD playback issue, I'm not sure if I'm going to trust to download drivers in the future (even though I know I may have to, and hopefully by then they'll have fixed it). If I change my video card itself to some succesive generation, I hope I don't have the same problem with the driver. I use PowerDVD, so I hope that in itself isn't part of the problem - up until now, it hasn't been.

I tried using the new driver interface to fix the TV/Video settings, and I also tried using the PDVD configuration to fix it, and in either case, I got no results.

Lifted...is that Linux you're showing in your cap? I've never seen it, if that's what it is. BTW...cool 3DM score!

[liftedcj7on44s]

no this is just a xp pro visual style. sorry to dissapoint! lol thanks. now i need a second 7800gt!

[Immortal_Hero]

I have had issues with this driver locking dvd playback and I am using nVidia's Pure Video decoder!!! I went back to 8X.XX drivers. I also had some SLI performance issues with the 9X.XX drivers. I am waiting for them to fix em up a little before I move to em...

[TheSonOfX51]

get the tweakrus version of the driver. The tweaks make it looks so much better. Even better than the original 92.91!

[Gig-O-Ram]

get the tweakrus version of the driver. The tweaks make it looks so much better. Even better than the original 92.91!

Where would I find this tweaked version of the driver? And looks aside, does it work better?


@Lifted...
No worries - I thought you had Linux because of the different looking task bar. It looks pretty cool, anyway!

[liftedcj7on44s]

thanks, yeah i like it its a little different.

[Gig-O-Ram]

Where do you get that theme from? I checked in my "Themes" list under "Browse themes online", and just got some kind of page with a server error message. I was thinking I could find something there, but no luck.

[liftedcj7on44s]

PM sent gig-o-ram!