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More info?)
More info. I just discovered in my Event Viewer and NV Infinite Loop error.
And that reminds me, I had that same error with the last set of 77.xx
drivers too.
The 71.89 and older drivers were 100% flawless for 6 months before these
77.xx drivers.
"edde" <waver777@hotmail.comNOSPAM> wrote in message
news:ST8Me.1953$ps5.47415@news1.mts.net...
> Well, I was playing a video again today and sure enough after a while the
> computer froze.
> Back to 71.89, and everything is fine. I talked to a friend with a similar
> setup and sure enough, 77.xx drivers do the same thing.
> Neil, I looked everywhere in the Nvidia Control Panel for "disable full
> screen device" and can't find it anywhere.
>
> "Neil J Bundy" <nospam_bubbleman@neil-bundy.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:bahwzQBWZJADFwFi@lon1-aj2a.demonadsl.co.uk...
>> Don't know if it will help anyone but with Athlon XP3200+, 6600GT on
>> AG-Neovo F-419 TFT display, I found 77.xx drivers "broke" the displaying
>> of video files when using everything except Quicktime player.
>>
>> I looked and tweaked a few things. No joy. Then I found that it was
>> because video was defaulting to a full screen device so would not display
>> in the Media player or PowerDVD window, as it was being channelled to the
>> Analogue output to my F-419 monitor for some reason (I use the digital
>> output for the desktop, it is set in clone mode).
>>
>> When I realised the video was being displayed on the other output I could
>> see it only if I switched the monitor input - not fantastic...
>>
>> The solution was to disable full screen device in the nVidia Display
>> control panel, all video works fine as it should now, and I can click in
>> and out of full screen as required (or connect a TV) as necessary.
>>
>> What puzzled me is that it was installing the 77.xx drivers that enabled
>> the full screen device... the driver actually works fine for me.
>>
>> I'm not sure re: some of the other problems people have experienced, it
>> may be worth checking codecs, etc. - also Media Player Classic is quite a
>> good bit of software - functional not gimmicky.
>>
>> Hope this helps - if not then nothing lost.
>>
>> Neil.
>>
>> In message <eWZLe.1899$ps5.46632@news1.mts.net>, edde
>> <waver777@hotmail.comNOSPAM> writes
>>>Thanks for the reply.
>>>No that isn't it. I have the latest nforce 4 chipset drivers, 6.66, and
>>>all
>>>the latest drivers for other components. All games play fine, it's a
>>>video
>>>related problem with the newer 77.xx drivers. As i posted above, others
>>>have
>>>noted the same problem. Switching back to 71.89 fixes the problem.
>>>But, the culprit may actually be 77.xx drivers and Sun Java as somebody
>>>pointed out. I uninistalled the Sun Java and found an version of MS Java
>>>floating around and installed it. That seems to have helped others.
>>>So far so good here.
>>>
>>>"Beowulf" <edkchem@netscape.net> wrote in message
>>>news:11fuuvie98bjrc9@corp.supernews.com...
>>>> edde wrote:
>>>>> I've been running a Leadtek 6600GT PCIE on an Asus A8N-SLI board for 6
>>>>> months or more, and it's been flawless (100% stock speeds).
>>>>> When the last Nvidia WHQL 77.xx driver set came out, I upgraded from
>>>>> 71.89.
>>>>> I noticed random crashes when playing wmv video files, and GTA San
>>>>> Andreas would often crash during the video cut scenes.
>>>>> So, I went back to the 71.89's, and all has been fine.
>>>>> I just upgraded again to Nvidia's new 77.77 drives, and sure enough
>>>>> within the first day I got a corrupted desktop when playing a
>>>>> realvideo
>>>>> file (had to restart computer), and now again today when playing a wmv
>>>>> file in media player. Going back to 71.89 or earlier fixes all
>>>>> problems.
>>>>> I guess WHQL doesn't mean a whole lot. The 77.xx drivers definately
>>>>> break
>>>>> something with the video overlay with atleast my 6600GT.
>>>> Interesting. I'm using 77.72 on PNY G4 ti4800 with no problems.
>>>> WinXpsp2
>>>> Slackware Linux 10.1 (76.76)
>>>>
>>>> DVD, DiVx, QT, wmv, etc all play fine. Games are ok, even older ones.
>>>>
>>>> You should poke around and make sure various old driver components are
>>>> not
>>>> still hanging around. Also, directx could be the problem. it never
>>>> did
>>>> "play nice" with non-windows drivers and opengl. You may also need to
>>>> update you chipset drivers as well
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Neil J Bundy
>
>
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