Dark video playback???

[Jupitus]

Hi folks! Once again I turn to the FH tech crew for a bit of help!!

On my home machine running win2k, when logged in as me I can watch TV avi files without issue. When I log in on the same machine as the Mrs, playing the same files they are very very dark, ie low brightness and/or contrast, to the point of being unviewable.

Now, obviously we could play around each time with screen settings, but that's gonna be a major PITA, so I am hoping to find out why.

The GFX card is an Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT. I have looked through all the apparent settings for any user specific items but can't find anything suspect. The problem appears in more than one media player (creative and windows) so I don't think it is an application problem.

Both users are setup with the same screen resolution and refresh rates, and outside of watching avi files the screen appears to be the same brightness etc between switching users.

Help!! Any ideas please??

 

[Guest]

sounds like a colour profile to me


create a new user and login as that person and see if its the same.


look in the nvidia control panel signed in as the mrs and set all the colour options to default.........

 

[Yaka]

check the overlay settings and brighten it up

 

[Trem]

Have you recently installed the new Nvidia driver?

it fucks with your colour and it takes some messing to get it right. Put a tick in 'use RGB gamma' in the Nvidia control panel, if its already ticked take the tick out and try that.

(you big fanny!)

 

[smurkin]

I think I'd try 2 things.

Uninstall you graphics card drivers fully (use the control panel add/remove and follow up with the driver cleaner from guru3d) and reinstall the latest version for your card

if that dont fix, i'd suspect a codec problem - consider instaling ffdshow to get some decent coverage here (again, rip out any old codecs you may have festering)

failling that, well it could be your psu.....

 

[Guest]

yes smurkin its his psu, thats why, when he is signed in as himself everything is ok......

it could just be the windows profile for the affected user.....


as i said, create a new user and see if its the same, i suspect it won't be.

 

[Trem]

Smirkin was ripping the piss Brooky.

Give us an update Jup you manky old cow

 

[Jupitus]

Hehe sorry guys, no update yet as I have a NEW issue!!!! Hurrah!!!!!!!


It's a bollocking fucking malware virus see-you-next-tuesday shitface fucking crapola-dungface called trojan.win32.starfield.

Tried loads of scans with various products last night without luck and it's PISSING ME OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!






P.S. Trem - you have girls bits down below.

 

[MYstIC G]

Trojan.Win32.Starfield Removal Process - PCHubs.com

 

[Jupitus]

Aye cheers Meg - I think I will have to try the manual removal

 

[Jupitus]

Thanks for your help folks... I had to use the cleanup tool in the link Meg left to get rid of the bloody trojan, and then it turned out that although the mrs has all defaults in the video settings, if you tweak something then change it back and save the settings it suddenly seems to kick in the proper display settings... all sorted (except of course, she moaned that her screen's 'too dark now' )