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[Yoda9864]

Which radeon do you have?

Radeons are known to have driver issues (although it's gotten a lot better now-a-days). Some drivers work better with certain Radeons. You usually just have to suck it up.

Send like 10 e-mails to ATi and let them know about it, cuz if they don't know about it, they won't do anything about it.

I'm done ranting now.

[ominub]

9600 PRO yoda but I still have Driver problems sometimes not often though maybe like once every few weeks or so but besides that it runs fine

[Vampyr]

I have a problem.

Ok, I reformated my old computer. It was corrupted with a virus, so I reformatted it and everything. It works like a brand new computer, but I'm having a little problem. Ok, so I have a bunch of CD's with anime on them. I want to store these anime's on my old computer.

I downloaded the DivX codec and player on my new computer, and installed it on my old one. I tried to play a video, and I could hear the music and words, but the picture was just flashing green light. Any suggestions.

[Jonbo298]

Have you tried ripping the movies/storing them on the computer and not running it off the cd's? And I'm guessing your using the divx player too.

btw, what format are the anime in? avi, mpeg, etc...

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by Jonbo298

Have you tried ripping the movies/storing them on the computer and not running it off the cd's? And I'm guessing your using the divx player too.

btw, what format are the anime in? avi, mpeg, etc...

Yeah, I have tried ripping them, and it doesnt help, and yeah, I'm using the divX player. They are in .avi format.

[Jonbo298]

Try playing the movies in Windows Media Player to see what happens. This'll help eliminate a few possible causes

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by Jonbo298

Try playing the movies in Windows Media Player to see what happens. This'll help eliminate a few possible causes

When I try to play it in Windows Media Player, it starts to load up, but it continues to say "opening" in the bottom, but it never actually opens. Then when I hold down ctrl, alt, delete, it says that Windows Media Player is not responding. So it just continues to say "opening" and nothing ever happens. It is an old version of Windows Media Player, but I dont see how that would affect it not playing correctly on the divX player.

[Jonbo298]

I was checking to make sure it wasn't something weird with your computer not rendering the video correctly. I'd recommend upgrading the Media Player (since its not liking the opening of the avi files for some reason) and vid. card drivers if you can. Other then that, maybe uninstlal/reinstall divx player. If that doesnt work, then find a way to use a different player to see if the .avi files work fine.

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

Ok, I'll go try this out. I'll have to download a newer version of windows media player on this computer first, because my old one doesnt have any interent access. I'll get back to on how it works out.

Ok, so before I downloaded WMP, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the divX player for a third time. This time, by some twist of fate in the laws of physics and nature in the universe, it worked. DivX player doesnt like to play the files, but now WMP (the one I already had installed) decided to get smart or something and start working.

Thank's a bunch, Jonbo.

[Jonbo298]

Cool, no problem. I myself have been having a problem with some video's playing right because it makes some (not all) videos have a green overlay on it in WMP. After I turned video acceleration off, it was perfect. I still have no clue why it does that. One of these times ill reformat by computer but I have way to many things to just do it right now

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

umm...anyone know the run command to get the the window that lets you pick which programs should or shouldn't run at startup? thanks