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fawgre · Apr 13, 2005, 08:58 PM // 20:58

I keep a collection of GW videos on me in case I start to get antsy for the Beta Weekend. They've always played mostly fine, but recently they've been getting darker. I played around a bit with the brightness/contrast levels on the monitor, played around a bit with my graphic's cards options, but I got nothing but a really stark desktop. I figured my 5 year old monitor was finally dying on me, so I switched to a newer one that I had lying around the house.

Unfortunately, not much changed. Again, I played around with the brightness and contrast, but to no avail, which makes me think it might have something to do with my graphics card. I'm using:

Powercolor ATI Radeon 9550 (AGP, 256Mb, 128Bit)
HP Pavilion Mx75 Monitor

[Optional specs:
Intel Prescott 3.0Ghz
512 Corsair XMS
DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0409)]

And ideas on why I'm suddenly in the dark?

fawgre · Apr 13, 2005, 10:16 PM // 22:16

So, in my attempts to try and make a screenshot of the newest movie to illustrate my point, I found a guide to taking screenshots in Windows Media Player that said to turn off Hardware Acceleration. So I did this, and the vidoe brightened up to perfect quality.

Can anyone tell me what this means, and how I can get this problem globally fixed? I hated WMP before and now without hardware acceleration it's choppy and horrible (but bright and clear!).

Loviatar · Apr 13, 2005, 10:48 PM // 22:48

You might try a clean install of your drivers for the card

fawgre · Apr 13, 2005, 10:51 PM // 22:51

I tried that, but ATI totally screwed me over. I try to reinstall the drivers, and it asks for a mysterious "ATI Installation CD," which I thought I was using, that "my computer manufacturer provided." Only I built the computer myself, and I don't remember handed myself any disks. Without this mysterious non-existant CD, I can't install "ati2drag.dll" and I can't reinstall the drivers.

ARGH.

I'm just going to throw my computer out the window, and hope that that solves some problems.

Thanks for the advice, though.

Loviatar · Apr 13, 2005, 11:03 PM // 23:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by fawgre

I tried that, but ATI totally screwed me over. I try to reinstall the drivers, and it asks for a mysterious "ATI Installation CD," which I thought I was using, that "my computer manufacturer provided." Only I built the computer myself, and I don't remember handed myself any disks. Without this mysterious non-existant CD, I can't install "ati2drag.dll" and I can't reinstall the drivers.

ARGH.

I'm just going to throw my computer out the window, and hope that that solves some problems.

Thanks for the advice, though.

You might try here
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/...ge&folderID=27
I got this on the dll search

the link redirected me

use search in upper left and put in the full dll for the page

Pinger · Apr 13, 2005, 11:07 PM // 23:07

Cancel the auto install of the drivers that windows does automatically for new hardware then manually start the driver exe you should have already downloaded and run it.