Much worst image quality on Windows 7? has anyone the same problem?

[metro.cl]

So i have a Dell 24" monitor and love watching US Series in it, normally lost, chuck, big bang theory and others also from now and then a few movies.

I was using Vista and the 720P videos looked really sharp and now that i changed to Windows 7 i can see the blocks of pixels from far away. I was told it was a VLC problem but tried WMC and had the same issue.

I've tried a 9600GT and a 9800GTX+ both vista and windos 7 drivers, same issue.

[safan80]

So i have a Dell 24" monitor and love watching US Series in it, normally lost, chuck, big bang theory and others also from now and then a few movies.

I was using Vista and the 720P videos looked really sharp and now that i changed to Windows 7 i can see the blocks of pixels from far away. I was told it was a VLC problem but tried WMC and had the same issue.

I've tried a 9600GT and a 9800GTX+ both vista and windos 7 drivers, same issue.

well I didn't have this issue with build 7000 I haven't installed any newer build because I've been busy with school work. I'll try the RC build next week.

[Jamesrt2004]

So i have a Dell 24" monitor and love watching US Series in it, normally lost, chuck, big bang theory and others also from now and then a few movies.

I was using Vista and the 720P videos looked really sharp and now that i changed to Windows 7 i can see the blocks of pixels from far away. I was told it was a VLC problem but tried WMC and had the same issue.

I've tried a 9600GT and a 9800GTX+ both vista and windos 7 drivers, same issue.

ill take a stab in the dark and say you have done a upgrade install of windows 7???? if you have it WILL be that. if not then sorry I can't help everything's perfect for me.

[XS_Rich]

Why will the upgrade have broken it?????

Back OT, Win7 uses a native decoder for h264 and MP4 type videos and even if you install ffdshow/CCCP/k-lite/CoreAVC over the top, it just ignores it and uses the built in decoder.

Were you using a 3rd party decoder on Vista?

[Joor]

Win7 uses a native decoder for h264 and MP4 type videos and even if you install ffdshow/CCCP/k-lite/CoreAVC over the top, it just ignores it and uses the built in decoder.

Is this true ? wow that is just annoying

[XS_Rich]

Seems to be.

It's nice that Win7 plays most stuff out of the box now, but not so nice that you can't use your own CUDA based HW decoder (CoreAVC etc.)

Think there's some registry hack workarounds in the works though, so it's not all doom and gloom....

http://forum.corecodec.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1850

[Jamesrt2004]

Why will the upgrade have broken it?????

seems people who upgrade see wierd issues like this one (me included) i had bad video quality + static from my audio... cleaned installed instead and was perfect again.

[XS_Rich]

Fair enough then!

[Russ_64]

The new WHQL drivers are coming out now which should help but so far I didn't have any problems on 7000 beta, will be moving to RC soon.

[Easybeat]

Catalyst 9.4 doesn't like Video on my machine, it seems to reset itself every time I play video. The screen goes black, then flickers then the driver message comes up saying they have been restarted, it alos happens with Winamp visualisations. No codecs installed just whatever is in the 7100 package.