Crazy image quality problem in IE *only* HELP!

[QueBert]

I am having the strangest problem. My system, xp 1800+ MSI nforce2 MB, 512 MB, Dell Ultrascan 720 Monitor, MSI Geforce4 MX440SE-lite.

in IE when I look at a web page, images look like they've been heavly dithered, text is fine. Also images in flash seem to be good. So I've narrowed it down to IE & bitmaps. Another interesting side effect, somebody emailed me pictures they scanned to my yahoo account. The email says one of the images is "112k" but when I download it it's around 24k. I checked my settings in IE and don't see any settings that should effect this, I did try setting "smart image dithering" made no difference. At first I thought it was *maybe* my monitor, but images come out fine look fine in Netscape. I'm running IE 6.0

don't really want to upgrade, unless it will fix this problem.

Worse comes to worse, I'll just update Netscape to 7 and ditch IE all together

 

[Lord Evermore]

In IE's advanced tab in Internet Tools, uncheck "enable automatic image resizing".

The file size Yahoo displayed is probably the UUencoded or base64 encoded size rather than the file's binary size. UUE and MIME b64 are two types of encoding for which email converts a binary file into a text stream that can be sent via email. Email is only equipped to transfer text, not binary files. The encoding process often results in a text content that is considerably more bytes than the size of the original binary. However this may not be what's happening, since when I get emails with an image, it shows the binary file size. I wouldn't worry too much either way unless it's happening to such an extent that your Yahoo box is filling up faster than it should.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
In IE's advanced tab in Internet Tools, uncheck "enable automatic image resizing".

The file size Yahoo displayed is probably the UUencoded or base64 encoded size rather than the file's binary size. UUE and MIME b64 are two types of encoding for which email converts a binary file into a text stream that can be sent via email. Email is only equipped to transfer text, not binary files. The encoding process often results in a text content that is considerably more bytes than the size of the original binary. However this may not be what's happening, since when I get emails with an image, it shows the binary file size. I wouldn't worry too much either way unless it's happening to such an extent that your Yahoo box is filling up faster than it should.

hummm I had tried the "resize image" button, no luck. Images look very blurry anbd pixalated. Guess I'll be going back to Netscape

 

[Fencer128]

Hi,

I know you mentioned it only affects bitmaps, but I thought you *may* be wrong and that this *might* be something to do with it (long shot I know as this is probably fixed by now!)

AMD image problem

Good luck,

Andy

 

[Fencer128]

Check out this current thread...

IE image problem

Good luck,

Andy

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: Fencer128
Hi,

I know you mentioned it only affects bitmaps, but I thought you *may* be wrong and that this *might* be something to do with it (long shot I know as this is probably fixed by now!)

AMD image problem

Good luck,

Andy

humm thanks, didn't seem to help. Although I just installed NS 7 and the SAME thing, I swore NS 4.7 last night was showing them correctly, but it if was it's not today. UGH! Some images just look real fuzzy, some the colors are really jacked.
I'll assume it's not my monitor because things that are on my HD (images, movies) look fine.
same for the video card, which I have the latest drivers for.

I am out of ideas how to fix this, it figures I'm having far out problems like this

 

[QueBert]

I re-installed WinXP, same image problem. I have 1 more question, I'm using my cell phone as my modem (Sprint) could this somehow be causing pixel images to look really crappy? I am totally out of ideas, I tried different video drivers, I tried running straight VGA driver. I don't have access to any other type of internet on this pc right now. Maybe this weekend I can dig up a dial-up and see if that fixes my problem, hopefully

ANY suggestions will be good. I could even post a few pictures on a web site if that would help anyone, this problem is madness to me!