I'm putting together two systems for my kids. I had an older CreativeLabs 5x Dxr2 Encore
DVD, never used, laying around. I figured I'd install that on one of the systems. The drive,
hooked up by itself, works find and everything's hunky dory. When I install the DVD decoder
card to make it work as a DVD drive, the video is terrible! I'm getting visible horizontal bands
and the whole desktop has a slight blur. Adjusting brightness/contrast doesn't work. I've
tried adjusting the refresh rate from optimal (windows98 taking care of that, I guess) to 85 (hz?)
and that makes it a bit better, but nowhere near as clear as I get just having that drive as CD
drive. My only guess is that the monitor and/or the video card doesn't like the loop back thru
the DVD decoder card. (Video card is a new Geforce2 GTS-V 32MB). Is there something
I'm overlooking, or that I can do to rectify this? I'm seriously thinking of just forgetting about
using this DVD for anything but a CD drive and forget about DVD aspect.
DVD, never used, laying around. I figured I'd install that on one of the systems. The drive,
hooked up by itself, works find and everything's hunky dory. When I install the DVD decoder
card to make it work as a DVD drive, the video is terrible! I'm getting visible horizontal bands
and the whole desktop has a slight blur. Adjusting brightness/contrast doesn't work. I've
tried adjusting the refresh rate from optimal (windows98 taking care of that, I guess) to 85 (hz?)
and that makes it a bit better, but nowhere near as clear as I get just having that drive as CD
drive. My only guess is that the monitor and/or the video card doesn't like the loop back thru
the DVD decoder card. (Video card is a new Geforce2 GTS-V 32MB). Is there something
I'm overlooking, or that I can do to rectify this? I'm seriously thinking of just forgetting about
using this DVD for anything but a CD drive and forget about DVD aspect.