nvidia 8800gts with 177.79. Various vendor tech support people told me that
the very latest driver would not be appropriate or required for my card. My
system has been stable for months. To get me to ever change video drivers
again I would need confirmation that the specific bug I have is fixed by
the new driver. Way too often consumers are told -update your video driver-
with no technical justification whatsoever. Windows update has a video
driver holding in limbo for me, but there is no way I can jeopardize a
working setup... at least update should tell the version it wants to hit me
with.
If I do the xp/vista video test with my hdtv again I will take pictures of
the screen with my camera. If you read what few docs there are on vista CP,
there is sometimes a video degradation process where the video is
deliberately compressed then expanded -- to a poorer quality. I wonder if
that's what's going on here, even though I am using an alternate player.
[Quoted Text] > Are you using the latest video card driver for your card according to your video card vendor's web site on the Vista side? > > -- > Speaking for myself only. > See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info. > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. > -- > "Paul" <this[ at ]is.invalid> wrote in message news:OjyBo7$ZJHA.412[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> I'm seeing that standard commercial dvd plays back with some jagged edges >> in vista. Monitor is a 42" 1080p HDTV. Playing the same dvd in xp on the >> same machine (it's dual boot) shows no jagged edges. Could I be seeing the >> effects of vista content degradation due to drm? Tests are done with the >> latest vlc with the same settings on both OS. I can't use media player for >> the test due to an old crt attached using vga without EDID (a content >> protection violation). |