HELP WITH DVD PLAYBACK

[Laudas]

I have never had a DVD player before and one came with my new computer. I have software on the computer that is supposed to make DVD's play. (PowerDVD) The problem is that my DVD playback color is washed out, like it is in a low color mode. I have a 6800 GT video card and an Athlon 64 3200 with 1 gig of ram.....Is there something simple I am missing?

Laudas

 

[HDTVMan]

Seen this post before and a few said update drivers its a known issue.
Some adjust the color in the display properties settings.

 

[Laudas]

Adjust as in fine tune them or actually adjust them bit wise?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Have you tried using the other PowerDVD color profiles (Vivid, Theatre, etc.)? I've found the default looks pretty washed out and the Vivid profile or customizing your own looks MUCH better.

 

[Laudas]

Yeah I tried that. It looks like when a game loads in 256 colors and it should be in 32 bit mode.....

 

[Peter]

Wasn't that a recent NVidia driver issue, fixed only in the very latest?

 

[n7]

No it's a current nVidia driver issue, something nVidia kindly hasn't bothered to fix since late June :roll:

This thread has a few fixes, though they don't seeem to work very well.
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=31&threadid=1627284

I would recommend uninstalling the drivers you have, & installing an older version.

 

[Laudas]

can u recommend which version to install, and can this also be the issue that I am having with some random game lockups and reboots as well (my computer tells me there is a likely graphics driver problem)

Laudas

 

[Laudas]

Holy smokes, I made the fix and it worked on my computer as well!!! Thank you my man!

Laudas