LBitner99

19th December 2003 15:03 UTC

AVS Overlay Problems
im having a problem getting the Overlay to initialize on my system here at work. im running a Win2000 workstation with a p4 1.5ghz 256m with a geforce 2 mx200. ive searched all the posts and ive found a few posts regarding thing but with no real answers. when i initialize the overlay.. the color box. (which should change to a preview of the AVS does not) And of course, the desktop does not change to the AVS either, YES i have set desktop checkmarked.. and YES ive updated to the most recent release drivers NVIDIA has for the card AND YES ive checked and tried all the different overlay options in the display properties for my card to no avail. can ANYONE give me an answer, the only thing i can figure is that its gotta be a win2k thing??

Yathosho

19th December 2003 17:20 UTC

not sure about win2k, but in win2k3 one has to activate hardware acceleration for the gfx card manually (control panel>display>troubleshoot).

LBitner99

19th December 2003 19:28 UTC

well theres no option like that in win2k... i checked a different machine with a totally different config (better) and i get the same thing.. so i think its definately a windows problem.. anything else?

hungryskull

19th December 2003 23:43 UTC

Maybe you are doing it wrong. Can you give us an exact description of what you are doing. Your post gives me the feeling that you are just checking the "Use Overlay Mode" box and not pressing the "Go" button

UnConeD

20th December 2003 14:32 UTC

hungryskull: there are 2 'overlay modes' in AVS...

- Regular overlay mode, useful for running AVS as desktop wallpaper.

- Fullscreen overlay mode, just an alternative and quicker way of having fullscreen AVS.

Obviously he's trying the first. I know there are some issues with overlay mode at higher resolutions: try lowering your desktop resolution and then try it.

LBitner99

22nd December 2003 13:28 UTC

UnConeD is right.. im working on the first.. the fullscreen doesnt work alltogether.. but thats a discussion for another day.. here is exactly what im doing:

starting a song in winamp.
opening the AVS
going to the config
going to the display settings.
checkmarking overlay mode
checkmarking display as backround.

NADA

now i HAVE lowered the res.. and tried everything inbetween.. and still to no avail.

hungryskull

27th December 2003 21:54 UTC

Sorry about my useless advice.

I know that there are two overlay modes. I just accidentally misread his post.


LBitner99: What is your colour depth set at? I doubt it matters but you never know.

ludeman99

29th December 2003 17:56 UTC

its ok about the useless advice.. no advice is useless in my opinion.. anyway.. im set to 32bit depth.. however.. i HAVE tried all the other settings to no avail as well ;o) anything else?

fsk

30th December 2003 00:05 UTC

you probably tried it but you didnt mention checking the set desktop to color. And i think someone said somewere that choseing the worong color can bother it. but the defoult one should work so if you havent chaneged it thats not it:S.

ludeman99

30th December 2003 00:54 UTC

yes your right.. but im always using the default color.. however, incase someone tells me to try others.. i went ahead and tried different colors at all different combinations of color depths and resolutions still with no effect.:)

Deamon

30th December 2003 08:42 UTC

If you have Active desktop enabled, overlay mode doesn't work as well. Maybe that's a problem?

ludeman99

30th December 2003 17:20 UTC

i thought that in the beginning but backwards.. you see, i DONT have active desktop enabled.. but i ENABLED it in the beginning thinking that might do it.. but it didnt... so i turned it back off.. thank you though.. next?

Yathosho

31st December 2003 01:09 UTC

maybe check the options in the winamp.ini, probably multiple entries or something like that.
your desired setting should be cfg_bkgnd_render=3, correct me if i'm wrong

Braininator

29th May 2004 08:24 UTC

I'm not able to get overlay to show up at all on a WinXP Pro computer. I think the graphics card on this computer is on-board the motherboard. The overlay preview does not show up over the colour box.

Any suggestions?

Braininator

30th May 2004 00:38 UTC

Problem solved. We put in another graphics card, perhaps AVS doesn't work with the on-board.

hungryskull

1st June 2004 01:16 UTC

Overlay works on my onboard graphics. I'm using WinXP too.