video on Windows x64 XP is just not right

Dfran

Everything else seems to be running well. Games look normal, pictures look great. When I run video it looks really screwy though. It's hard to even explain, the colors are way off as if there is some trippy special effect turned on, and there is also a speckling effect on everything, like color static. It's on both Media Player and Power DVD so it doens't seem to be caused by one program. Does anyone know what this is?
thanks in advance

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

I assume you're running the 64 bit video drivers from your video card manufacturer.

I will run a dvd and other videos on my Win64 machine and see how it looks tonight.

Dfran · Posted: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:24:24 Post Subject:

Yup, I got the 64 bit driver. I did just do a new install with the Windows though. The video worked before that. Now, also, I have two Administrator folders with duplicates of everything inside them. Isn't that weird?

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Yea that is a bit wierd. Power DVD runs fine on my Win64 machine.

Did you just reinstall over an old OS, or did you format/reinstall? If you just reinstalled over an old OS that could be part of the issue, remnants of the old OS could be over shadowing new stuff.

Dfran · Posted: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:17:24 Post Subject:

That one I thought I formatted/reinstalled over the original x64 install. I did it again last night but first I used Data Lifeguard Tools (utility for WD disks). I don't have much experience with that but it seemed strange that it took no time at all, and it was supposed to erase the whole disk. When I went ahead again with the Windows install it still said there was x amount of data in that partition. Either way though the duplicate folders are gone (there were other ones too, I noticed), so it did help it seems. It was really late when I did that so I didn't install any video software to see if it fixed it. I will this afternoon.

Dfran · Posted: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:08:08 Post Subject:

Nope still no video. It's fuzzy funky colored weirdness. It looks like a special effect I've seen but can't think of the name of.

**JimBowy** · Moderator Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 1627

Have you looked up this issue on Microsoft's Online Knowledgebase yet? Probably the best place to start.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 01:21:43 Post Subject:

My guess is your not feeding it enough good p0rn. Windows Media Player 10, requires at least 6 hours of p0rn a week.

dadx2mj · Posted: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 01:24:02 Post Subject:

Dfran · Posted: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:16:50 Post Subject:

I looked on Windows Knowledge base for x64. Didn't come up with anything there though. I'll try a few different searches but it doesn't look promising right now. I suppose I could try re-installing the video driver....