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by mtrahern

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I'm having a problem with video on my WinXP professional computer. Any video i try to play is waaaay off center. It doesnt matter if i use media player, quick time, real player, etc... i'm only able to see about 1/4 of the picture. I've downloaded divx, still the same. i had the same problem on a winME computer, but i just updated the media player and it worked fine. I'm thinking it might be my video card... Any suggestions before i go out and buy a new one?

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by thechas

If your video card has less than 8MB of RAM, that could well be the problem.

If you have more RAM on the card, start by updating the driver from the card or vidoe chip mfg website.

Another thing that you can do, is to run dxdiag to verify thatyou do not have any direct X problems.

Chas

by mtrahern

I had an older video card. I replaced it with a 32-bit video card and all is better.

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