Issues when playing DVD's.

[antjscott]

Hey guys,

I've just bought myself a new graphics card, installed it all properly as i should've etc. It is a Geforce 6600, PCI-E 512mb ddr2. Now when I play games with it, it is absolutely awesome, and i can run absolutely every game on high detail, high res, without any lag at all, unlike my old Raedon 128mb X300, PCI-E. No complaints there at all. The problem that I have with this card, unlike all my other cards that i've previously had, is that when i play a dvd, no matter what program, i've tried about 10 already, about 5 mins into the actual movie, the video all of a sudden freezes up and wont do anything. Is this just a simple issue of me having to update the latest driver? or is there something dodgy happening here?

 

[feardaspear]

Try updating the graphic drivers see what happens, also is it only in dvds or other video files as well

 

[iss]

Did you uninstall the radeon drivers before installing the 6600? the best way to uninstall the radeon drivers is with ATI's own cat. uninstaller.

 

[Federelli]

What the guys above said.

First, make sure you uninstalled the Radeon drivers properly. Also, formating isn't a bad idea.
Second, update to Nvidia's latest drivers, which can be found here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_81.95.html

Try using Intervideo's Video Decoder to decode DVDs, it's ok, and works good.
Last, but not least, give Media Player Classic a try, it's a great player --> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&package_id=84358&release_id=373767

 

[antjscott]

yeah i think that's where i may have stuffed up. cos i went and installed the driver straight away, then uninstalled the raedon driver... yeah i used intervideo dvd decoder, and the same thing happened there... i'll try using the latest driver's and see how i go.