onederer Posted May 23, 2003 Share Posted May 23, 2003 Greeting everyone!After a couple of weeks talking with Dell software "experts", hardware "experts", Nvidia "experts", and never coming up with a solution, I, (me-myself-and-I) found the solution. All those people that I dealth with had no clue! And they called themselves experts! This topic pertains to Windows, and well as to Linux. After all, the same video display card is used for any OS.Initially I had found that I couldn't view a rented DVD movie in its entirety on the montor's screen. The movie was being displayed at a much lower resolution, making it way too large to be seen on the display screen.Two thirds of the movie could not bee seen. As for the 1/3 portion, mostly the tops of the actors heads could be seen at the bottom of the monitor's screen. It was very frustrating at the very least. No solution could be found, by dealing with the "experts". Most of them told me to re-install the OS, as a cop-out. And some of them simply hung up on me. I guess that they panicked and couldn't deal with it.Anyway to make it short, if you happen to have an Nvidia card, and you can't watch DVD movies because they are too large for the screen, or dowloaded movie clips for that matter, go to your Windows desktop, and right click on it, to Display Properties > then to Settings > then at the bottom to ADVANCED > at the top you will see a tab for the GeForce MX 420 card, click on it. There you will find your salvation, or your misery, depending on what you did with those settings.I thought that this was important enough to share with you. This can also apply to Linux. Just remember to check the settings in the card's setup file, if you are having trouble. This way you will not have to go running to the "experts" who don't know much of anything, anyway! This should have been the first thing that they should have checked with me, when I approached them.Hope that this will be beneficial for some of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ThunderRiver Posted May 23, 2003 Share Posted May 23, 2003 It really depends on what software you use to playback the movie. I have been playing movies on ATI and nVidia with both PowerDVD and WinDVD and even Windows Media Player 9, but I have not encoutnered the problem you have mentioned. I do experience certain slow down in ATI cards while playing back movies. The settings in nVidia is obviously very important, but more importantly you need to get a driver that's stable. I have bad luck with nVidia, which gives me BSOD every 6 hours (the Geforce 2 Mobile..all thanks to Dell engineering). But anyway, I am moving this thread to Hardware forum since it doesn't belong here.ThunderRiver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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