Green Screen

[Humanzee]

So I messed something up. The other day I was trying out a new customization and read a bit of info that said there was a new version of directx out from microsoft that helped with CPU usage when running directX applications (VMR9). Anyway, I thought that was a grand idea so I went off and installed it. While I was at it I thought I might pop around and see if there were any other new drivers out there so i also installed Forceware 84.43 from nzone for my 6600GT. Its release notes said something about better purevideo for HDTV material. Grand idea as well.

Well, maybe not. I have been using overlay as my default renderer because aparently my 6600GT just doesnt have the stuff for VMR9 at 1920x1080. So now any HD content is displayed as a bright green. I enabled vmr9 and FSE and the video came back but with the same old choppyness. The updates didn't make enough improvements to stick with. So thats no good either.

This afternoon there was a break in the recording schedule so I rebooted the machine and set the render back to overlay, and walla, it worked. So it was just a fluke right? Nope, after about 2 hours of watching some downloaded british car shows in WMplayer I went back into sage to watch last night's late night shows. But the green screen is back in SageTV and a black screen in WMplayer.

My guess is the video card drivers. I rolled them back but it is asking for a reboot. I have to wait an hour and a half for some things to finish recording before trying that.

Anybody seen this before? Any reason it might be direct X over the video card drivers?

[Humanzee]

The roll back in graphics drivers seems to have helped, but I don't think that the latest Direct X help things much in the CPU usage dept. Maybe its just time for a new computer.

[Humanzee]

OK, it came back, but it seems to be realted to the P2P program Azureus and the nVidia decoder. If Azureus is open I get a green screen on any HD playback. Wierd.