Video color problems

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.video (More info?)

First try updating the drivers for your graphics card from the graphic card
manufacturer's website.
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Cari
MS-MVP Windows Technologies - Printing/Imaging/Hardware
www.coribright.com

"Hyrum Paulsen" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:uWOipxpZEHA.3716@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>I just recently noticed that the colors for videos on my machine are all
> messed up (blue looks green, for example). They weren't two weeks ago, and
> I
> haven't been able to figure out what happened to cause this, or how to get
> them back to normal. All videos and players appear to be affected (AVI or
> MPEG, using Windows Media Player, RealOne, or PowerDVD). I don't know
> enough
> about the configuration of things in Windows to know what could be common
> to
> all of these files to cause this type of error. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated!
>
> -Hyrum
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.video (More info?)

Thank you for the advice -- it put me on the right track. I downloaded a
previous, known good version of the video driver (I already had the latest),
and nothing changed. However, I was able to resolve the issue by going into
the options for some of the driver components.

For anyone who may like to know, I am using a S3 ProSavage DDR built-in
card. To resolve the problem, in Control Panel -> Display -> Settings ->
Advanced -> S3Overlay I clicked on the "Default" button (while a video was
running, as it required), and the problem is resolved.

I had not realized that video rendering takes place in the video card
driver/card. Thank you again for the help!

-Hyrum