PNY 7900gs and Videos

imported_DGibFen

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I purchased a PNY 7900gs recently (thanks to that Best Buy deal). Before that, I had been running an ABit nf-m2 board which has the GeForce 6150 intergrated graphics chip. My videos (everything from DVD to wmv, avi, mpeg, etc.) worked fine with that. Since I purchased the 7900gs, my videos will lock up my computer quite a bit. I first uninstalled the NVidia drivers and reinstalled everything, but no luck. I then uninstalled all of the codecs and then installed the CCCp (sorry if I have the name wrong - I'm not currently at that computer) codecs to see if that worked. It was fine for a little while, but then locked up on a mp4 file. After rebooting, it locked up again on an avi file. For some reason, wmv files run fine.

As far as everything else, applications and games don't provide any type of hiccup - just videos. Anyone have any clues as to what is going on?

Thanks!
 

Conky

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I recently got this exact same card and started having trouble with Windows built-in media player. Stopped immediately and the some nonsense about a quartz.dll. :( I looked into that but it wasn't the issue. Reinstalled DirectX, no help. Uninstalled and reinstalled Windows Media Player, no help. Then I tried the full set of codecs in the klite package at free-codecs.com and it fixed everything.

Other video players like VLC worked before all this but I wanted the Windows one to work properly too. It just bugs the hell out of me when something that should be simple doesn't work right.

Didn't expect to anything besides clean and install drivers with a new videocard but every day with Windows is another adventure. :roll:
 

evolucion8

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Originally posted by: Beachboy
I recently got this exact same card and started having trouble with Windows built-in media player. Stopped immediately and the some nonsense about a quartz.dll. :( I looked into that but it wasn't the issue. Reinstalled DirectX, no help. Uninstalled and reinstalled Windows Media Player, no help. Then I tried the full set of codecs in the klite package at free-codecs.com and it fixed everything.

Other video players like VLC worked before all this but I wanted the Windows one to work properly too. It just bugs the hell out of me when something that should be simple doesn't work right.

Didn't expect to anything besides clean and install drivers with a new videocard but every day with Windows is another adventure. :roll:


Lol is true, with Windows eXPerience, you will get more eXPerience in adventures, I guess I would become a Tomb Raider with this Windows eH?:Q