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After spending the last 4 months on this--which included updating directX 4 months ago when that latest runtime was released--I finally have managed to get slingplayer to look halfway decent, by: running in compatibility mode for XP, disabling desktop composition (i.e. Aero effects), disabling...

Yeah.. That was just a wild guess since I happened to look it up (when deciding whether to D/L avivo converter in addition to catalyst update), I have no idea how it works, if apps have to be coded specifically to use it, or if it's a core component of the driver which can't entirely be...

Not just NVIDIA.. I have a Radeon HD 4850 exhibiting these problems. Just updated to last weeks catalyst, same as all before. It *is* worth noting that VLC was just as bad as all the others when I originally posted, but has since been updated and now displays correctly. So it's a problem...

For what it's worth, guess it does If I understand correctly, ATI's "Avivo" and NVIDIA's "Purevideo" offload some encoding, decoding, and transcoding graphics capabilities, so maybe both those programs are optimized to take advantage of it, in which case that's where the problem lies; either in...

One more thing I found that GIMP appears to be capable of creating a single-color image which is actually a single solid color, but this changes if any of the scaling functions are used to change the size of the image or a selection, when it introduces the same weird artifacts that the other...

On that line That provided me with an idea for what I thought would be a truly simple test, I tried resizing a few images individually with the same result, so then I created a new empty image file with a grey background, so I could see what happens when I resize it. However, I didn't have to...

Wow, ok... This is truly peculiar, and I think it may be indicative that the problem is in a *completely* different area than anything previously mentioned.. I just went to batch resize a bunch of jpgs with irfanview 4.25 using the built-in lanczos filter.. and it did the exact same thing to...

Oops, strike that I do know something about how it renders now: I found enabled settings "Use DirectX for display panes," "Use DirectX overlay surfaces," "Use Direct3D," and "Disable accelerated display when inactive." Sure enough, unchecking the "Disable accelerated display.." box altered...

Tiny new clue One of the few programs that displays well on my computer is a VirtualDub 1.9.3 x64 build, which is only marginally helpful since it's not really meant to be used as a player, just an editor. I have just noticed, though, that it too looks like crap whenever it is a background...

Hmm, that's weird Like I said, I have now set up to dual boot Vista (64-bit ultimate version), and after updating the drivers, it quits giving the weird cross-hatch pattern. It's weird that you can't solve it in Vista either, because otherwise it seems like the exact same thing. I have found...

Darn. That didn't work on whatever my problem is, either. Don't know if it has anything to do with it, but slingplayer automatically uses.. VMR 9 rendering I think it is.. whatever it's called, it is not a configurable setting, so, knowing that that's the piece of windows that is broken...

Ok, so, an update is in order I guess Turning off Aero didn't affect anything at all; I'm assuming you just do this by selecting a "basic" color scheme, right? Cause that's what I did and it didn't make any discernible difference. However, my problem doesn't seem to be quite the same. It is...

Seconded I'm not sure I'm having exactly the same issues as everyone else, but it looks pretty close. I have the RTM of vista ultimate as well, and definitely everything has absolutely horrible video playback, except, for some reason, that windows media player seems to have perfectly fine...