Major Overlay Issue - AVS Forums

Cyth

19th January 2007 06:05 UTC

Major Overlay Issue
ok, so i was using the AVS overlay feature while doing other stuff (off computer) and winamp crashed. when i restarted my computer, i noticed that even though winamp was not running, my computer was still attempting to produce some sort of overlay effect, only, it spread from just black to EVERYTHING

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/7125/clip8oi8.jpg

as you can see, its not only annoying, it screws up text and images which makes using my computer very hard indeed. ive tried uninstalling the plug-in, uninstalling winamp (both dirty and clean), restarting my computer many a time, and i know that AVS uses the CPU instead of the vid card so re-installing my video drivers wont help.

im using WindowsXP Pro with SP2, winamp 5.31(x86), 1280x1024 resolution using 32bit color quality.

help please

jheriko

19th January 2007 13:13 UTC

Re: Major Overlay Issue

Originally posted by Cyth
and i know that AVS uses the CPU instead of the vid card so re-installing my video drivers wont help.

Actually in this case it is your best bet.

Overlay mode uses a hardware feature on graphics cards.

For future reference this kind of "dirt" on the screen is the fault of the graphics card 90% of the time. Similar junk gets rendered if you overclock too far or if the driver is unstable.

Nanakiwurkz

28th January 2007 00:11 UTC

have to go with jheriko on this. my comp was doing the same thing. re-installing the drivers cleaned it up real nicely.