All videos playing dark but the rest, OK?
 

HI, I have the Nvidia Riva TNT graphics card on my old Gateway hooked
up to a Gateway EV700 monitor. Now, I got the system up and running
after formatting and installing Windows XP SP2 Home.

All seemed OK so I decided to play back some videos from my older,
yes, haha, older, PC. Wow, they were too dark, so I updated the
drivers to 61.7 exe ones on the Nvidia site. That didn't help at all.
I can't figure out what is going on as the rest of the display on all
program opened is fantastic. Something must be up and I have a
suspicion, that others have encountered this problem. Please help me
to get the video playback ironed out without having to boost settings
like in WMP. OH, last note, it happens in Realplayer and VLC too, but
you can boost the WMP in Tools etc. Thanks for listening, psingman

All videos playing dark but the rest, OK?
 

OK, have to add a quick reply. I went back and played the same videos
on the computer I am typing on and they are way way better...brighter,
more contrast, less grainy...so the Nvidia card must not be
functioning properly...but, always a but, like I said the rest of the
display stuff is fine. Hope I can get this figured out soon.

If I have to go back to older drivers, just steer me in the right
direction....thanks for being patient, psingman

All videos playing dark but the rest, OK?
 

That older underpowered video card cannot successfully play videos. Time to
move to modern hardware...

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HI, I have the Nvidia Riva TNT graphics card on my old Gateway hooked
up to a Gateway EV700 monitor. Now, I got the system up and running
after formatting and installing Windows XP SP2 Home.

All seemed OK so I decided to play back some videos from my older,
yes, haha, older, PC. Wow, they were too dark, so I updated the
drivers to 61.7 exe ones on the Nvidia site. That didn't help at all.
I can't figure out what is going on as the rest of the display on all
program opened is fantastic. Something must be up and I have a
suspicion, that others have encountered this problem. Please help me
to get the video playback ironed out without having to boost settings
like in WMP. OH, last note, it happens in Realplayer and VLC too, but
you can boost the WMP in Tools etc. Thanks for listening, psingman

All videos playing dark but the rest, OK?
 

psongman wrote:
OK, have to add a quick reply. I went back and played the same videos
on the computer I am typing on and they are way way better...brighter,
more contrast, less grainy...so the Nvidia card must not be
functioning properly...but, always a but, like I said the rest of the
display stuff is fine. Hope I can get this figured out soon.

If I have to go back to older drivers, just steer me in the right
direction....thanks for being patient, psingman



Gamma; learn it, find it, increase it.

All videos playing dark but the rest, OK?
 

H;lo, I can't believe a regular graphics display card is not better
than my Windows 98 machine with onboard display. I mean I can watch
these videos easily on this old stone age computer. I think there just
needs to be a set of drivers mated with the display that suits the
XP.

I will try to uninstall the newest drivers in safe mode, then install,
the 44.03 ones...if that doesn't work then I will just use the onboard
display, got to be better than this piece of crap, Nvidia Riva Tnt
one. Thanks for the help, will give the gamma a go also. psingman

All videos playing dark but the rest, OK?
 

On Sep 18, 6:40 pm, psongman wrote:
H;lo, I can't believe a regular graphics display card is not better
than my Windows 98 machine with onboard display. I mean I can watch
these videos easily on this old stone age computer. I think there just
needs to be a set of drivers mated with the display that suits the
XP.

I will try to uninstall the newest drivers in safe mode, then install,
the 44.03 ones...if that doesn't work then I will just use the onboard
display, got to be better than this piece of crap, Nvidia Riva Tnt
one. Thanks for the help, will give the gamma a go also. psingman

In the Nvidia control panel app theres a slider that lets you adjust
video playback brightness.

Matt

All videos playing dark but the rest, OK?
 

gamefixer wrote:
On Sep 18, 6:40 pm, psongman wrote:
H;lo, I can't believe a regular graphics display card is not better
than my Windows 98 machine with onboard display. I mean I can watch
these videos easily on this old stone age computer. I think there just
needs to be a set of drivers mated with the display that suits the
XP.

I will try to uninstall the newest drivers in safe mode, then install,
the 44.03 ones...if that doesn't work then I will just use the onboard
display, got to be better than this piece of crap, Nvidia Riva Tnt
one. Thanks for the help, will give the gamma a go also. psingman


What think you need to do is within the Nvidia Control panel ther is and
option to adjust video colour settings while playing your video in a
windowed screen have a play about with the options

i Had a similar problem with my 7600 gs when using a newly added tv card
all programs and games were fine it was only when i used the tv card did
i get a problem i found playing about in the video settings sorted it
out fine.

There is a website dedicated to 3d drivers they do both nvidia and ati
but i can't remember the name off hand the reason i mention this is i
have seen a link to the best drivers to use with the Riva TNT.
if i find the site again i'll post a link for you.

All videos playing dark but the rest, OK?
 

* DaveW:

That older underpowered video card cannot successfully play videos. Time to
move to modern hardware...

Again you showed us that you're even dumber than a pile of horse ****,
DaveW? Still don't have the slightest clue about computers? Of course not.

Of course what this idiot wrote is just wrong, a RivaTNT can easily play
back videos and also DVDs. It doesn't offer any HD acceleration, though,
but that isn't the problem the OP has.

Benjamin

All videos playing dark but the rest, OK?
 

* psongman:

HI, I have the Nvidia Riva TNT graphics card on my old Gateway hooked
up to a Gateway EV700 monitor. Now, I got the system up and running
after formatting and installing Windows XP SP2 Home.

All seemed OK so I decided to play back some videos

What videos? Of which format are they?

from my older,
yes, haha, older, PC. Wow, they were too dark, so I updated the
drivers to 61.7 exe ones on the Nvidia site. That didn't help at all.
I can't figure out what is going on as the rest of the display on all
program opened is fantastic. Something must be up and I have a
suspicion, that others have encountered this problem. Please help me
to get the video playback ironed out without having to boost settings
like in WMP. OH, last note, it happens in Realplayer and VLC too, but
you can boost the WMP in Tools etc. Thanks for listening, psingman

First, a RivaTNT can play videos just fine, and yes, even under
Windowsxp. There are several possible reasons for your problem. Did you
really remove the older driver before installing the latest one or did
you just install it on top of another driver? Is your Windowsxp at the
current patch level and did you install the latest DirectX 9.1c updates?

The Nvidia drivers contain settings for video playback that let you
increase brightness of videos ("Gamma"). Try it.

Benjamin

All videos playing dark but the rest, OK?
 

Hi, thanks for the interesting replies. I did remove all instances of
the drivers before I installed the newer ones. However, I did not do
the direct X thingie....does that really affect the video settings? I
have a feeling that is it.

See, I haven't gone online much with the computer I am asking help for
as I need this one to make sure the other one is working properly.
I have fiddled with the settings but, to be honest, the videos are not
just dark but not as clear as the ones I watch on this computer. I
will keep trying things, might have to go back to really old drivers
or do the directX update stuff.

If you have any more eureka moments, keep 'em coming. I will keep
returning to the thread for your insight, psongman