RE: Video Woes

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I think my problem lies with the fact that it cannot create a video overlay.
Probably a software problem. I have all the latest bios and drivers loaded.

I did dablle with multi screens at one point (I know this causes havoc with
overlays ) but I am back to one screen now.

I can play DVDs through Media Player Classic.

Help.............
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"CJ" wrote:

> I am having problems with windows and graphics. I recently upgraded my
> computer to an Athlon 64 3500+ with an Asus (ATI) X300 PCIe graphics card.
> Since then I have not been able to play DVDs as PowerDVD locks up straight
> away and WinDVD 5 comes up with the error “Create overlay failed. Please
> lower your screen resolution or colour depth & try again”. I often
> experience the graphics card resetting and sometimes failing when playing
> modern games (Far Cry etc). I thought that the graphics card was not up to
> the job so I recently bought a Gigabyte X800XT (GV-RX80L256V), uninstalled
> the old drivers/card and installed the new one. Still the same problem. I
> think the problem is DirectX so I ran DXDiag. Everything comes up fine
> except for the DirectDraw7 test which returns “Direct3D 7 test results:
> Failure at step 8 (Creating 3D Device): HRESULT = 0x8007000e (Out of
> memory)”. If I run the DirectX test in Sisoft Sandra The Direct Draw shows
> red crosses against everything in general capabilities (including “Has 3d
> Hardware Acceleration”) and Extended Capabilities (apart from “Can render in
> window”). It also tells me in the tips, Video card does not have 3d
> accelerated hardware, No stretch support, No hardware overlay support, No Z
> buffering support, No hardware colour-space conversion and recommends that I
> upgrade my graphics card. £220 well spent there then.
> I am running XP Pro with all updates and latest drivers for video.
> Anyone got any ideas, apart from a Windows re-install?
>
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> If it wasn''t for electricians you would be using your computer by candle
> light.
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