Radeon 9600XT not performing well in XP MCE, not drawing video properly

[homestarmy]

I have used this same card in two different XP MCE setups before and it worked great.

I just rearranged some things and built a new system from scratch with this 9600XT AGP card, and now in MCE when playing either an XviD video or HDTV stream, when there is a lot of movement (such as a perosn walking down a hall), it looks like it is redrawing the background, as if it is slightly behind. It is hard to explain, but maybe I can get pics or video.

Could this be caused by newer driver? I have reinstalled the newest driver and it works the same. Should I try an older one? Which one?

It is connected to my HDTV at 1152x648 resolution. I also set it to 800x600 and it did the same.

I am using a Soltek s754 motherboard running a Via chipset (because it actually implements s3 properly).

Before using cards that did not have enough power caused it to stutter. This is not stuttering, but my best description is that it is lagging in rendering the background (though I know rendering is likely not the right word). When panning, etc. is when it has this issue, and also when the bitrate of video is highest.

Any recommendations?

 

[homestarmy]

Below are responses from AVSForum. I'm not at home to test them yet. Any other ideas?
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Do you have FASTWrites enabled in the BIOS and CCC?
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I have/had the same problem with my 9800Pro and I think I've managed to fix the problem.

1) make sure you turn on VSYNC
2) set the de-interlacing in CCC to Adaptive (not at home right now)
3) If your using Purevideo, set de-interlacing to Smart

I watched a couple movies last night (well parts of) and I haven't noticed this problem again.
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My guess is this.....Whatever video decoder your using to deinterlace the video is not doing a good job. Have you tried playing the files in a different media player such as VideoLan?