Hi there,

When I play videos on my computer there are dots on the screen - not with all video programs but then again it is not consistently with certain programs either. I use windows media player, powerdvd 6, dvd x player and media player classic and all of them, on different files, have these dots. A screen shot is below:



These dots move around to be on areas of the same shade i.e same brightness.

I have re-installed windows and still this problem persists - however when I play games and videos play in these games there are no dots. I have run direct X tests and they have all come back fine with no dots or artifacts.

Has anybody heard of this before? Could it be an overheating problem with my graphics card?

Oh yeah and its not the actual videos as it happens with all videos and they play fine on my divx player with no dots.

Have just run artifact tester and there are no artifacts detected too...

Thanks for anybody's help!

Regards
Mathias

Hi,
This problem may not be relate to artifacts. Does this problem occurs with every video you play?

Try changing the screen resolution.

For more information on windows media player visit this site
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...n/wmtbest.mspx

Hi there,

this problem occurs with all videos but not all the time - a video can play in windows media player with no dots and then if I play the same video in powerdvd there are dots but it is not consistent at all. When I run 3dmark the dots are present on the graphics all the time.

see screenshot below:



I have updated the drivers for the video card, checked that the waterblock is on the GPU properly and changed the resolution to no avail...

Thanks for your suggestion ron30189 .. got any others?

Mathias

Which artifact tester did you use?


Plz give the version of your WMP & make & model of your video card.

Hi there,

Its a ATI radeon 9600 256mb video card and WMp is version 10.00.00.4036.

The videos seem to play in winamp fine everytime now..

Cheers
Mathias

Hi,

What kind of videos are you talking about? Short clips (up to 5 min. max) or are you talking about complete original movies on CD/DVD?

Might be that you're running an older or a buggy release of DivX on your computer. Make sure you have the latest release of DivX.

Greetings
Ron

Hey,

All files including divx, mpegs and wmv's do the same thing from full length divx's to short 5 minute mpegs. I have upgraded DiVX to the latest version and have upgraded all the video drivers.. sigh..

Dont worry about it I will just use winamp for everything

Thanks anyway dude
Mathias