RE: Media Player and Media Center Video Problem

Usually boards with integrated video have a adjustment in the BIOS to add
memory for the controller (advanced chipset settings),usually 1MB to 8MB
more.Other than that,a add-on display adapter would boost the system 100%,
on board video just doesnt cut it.Also,set youre virtual memory to "let
system
manage" click set 2X,close out system properties.Virtual memory can be as
crucial as ram memory......

"Darren" wrote:

> I have a new media center PC and as far as i know i have all the proper
> updates and drivers installed (via windows update, gateway bigfix). OS is
> windows media center, AMD X2 3800+, 2 GB RAM, Nvidia Geforce integrated
> graphics. Out of the box I've had problems with video playback- web content
> playing in a media player window, as well as some weird behavior of the media
> center interface. I think the two are related. What happens in video playback
> is the top part of the screen is normal but a bit squashed vertically, and
> the bottom part looks smeared downward in perfectly vertical lines. I have
> screenshots to email someone if need be. Now when I click on the media center
> icon from the start menu it opens but the welcome screen, or any screen for
> that matter, are garbled or disjointed- like it was printed on a glass panel
> that was broken and then put back together wrong. Everything is all askew and
> i can barely make out enough of it to close the screen and get back to my
> desktop. One time i tried to navigate half blind through the media center
> setup wizard and when the sample video played it was the same thing- the
> video looked beautiful other than the fact that the bottom half was cut off
> and smeared downward. It made peoples necks look 4 ft long. I tried different
> resolutions and everything else works fine on this computer so far. I can try
> windows phone support and gateway support but from experience these things
> are so time consuming and unreliable- I have had better luck in newsgroups
> and forums. One thing: when i reduce the hardware acceleration in my display
> properties to the level where directx and direct 3D are disabled everything
> works but i get an error message when i start the media center something like
> my video card or drivers are not compatible with media center then it starts
> normally despite the message. And when I try to play any sample or
> calibration videos from within media center i get a message that the files
> needed to display video are not installed or working correctly. please
> restart media center or your computer. I know its only integrated video
> without discrete memory but i have directx 9c and ran the dxdiag tests and it
> shows everything is fine (although the spinning directx cube in the tests
> shows kind of disjointed and choppy like the media center screen when i have
> the hardware acceleration at full), but with 2GB of RAM and the nVidia
> Geforce 6100 (should be pretty good as far as integrated graphics go) basic
> video and 3D graphics should in my mind play smoothly. Any suggestions?