Video output looks awful

[GraemeM]

This one is gonna be hard to explain but here it goes.

Basically I have a TV Tuner card (Avermedia Ultra TV PCI 300), and software that runs it. I noticed that the picture was very distorted, lacking colour, somewhat blurry. I also noticed that Windows Media Player looked like this. However, if I open the TV Tuner software and then play a video in Windows Media Player, Media Player looks fine. Vice versa is the same, if I start playing a movie in Media Player and then open my TV Tuner software, the TV tuner software looks fine. It has nothing to do with the video file, since it can look either way. It has to be something to do with my computer has a problem with playhing the first stream of video, while any aditional stream looks fine. I'm completely lost, any ideas?

(oh by the way the video looks just as bad in internet based players, etc. so I doubt it has anything to do with Media Player)

I am running Windows XP with service pack 1


Thanks,
Graeme

[ror_b211]

Is your video card kicking in anti-aliasing for some reason? My old one did it on 8x everytime I watched a video for some reason (it looked as you described), all I did was change the little menu from 'force 8x' to 'Application Controlled'.

[GraemeM]

Originally Posted by ror_b211 Is your video card kicking in anti-aliasing for some reason? My old one did it on 8x everytime I watched a video for some reason (it looked as you described), all I did was change the little menu from 'force 8x' to 'Application Controlled'.

thanks, tried that out, but thats not it

[GraemeM]

bump, any more suggestions?

[glc]

If it's an Nvidia card and you are using the latest 77.72 drivers, uninstall them and go back to 71.89's.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_71.89.html

[GraemeM]

wow your a genius, fixed the problem.

Thanks, but just wondering, will downgrading the drivers have any serious effect? Should games like Doom 3 still play okay (its an EVGA 6800GT by the way)?