WEIRD VIDEO ISSUE

Whenever I open a video file (.avi,mpeg, divx, xvid, etc) the image looks great on my 19'' LCD until I tell it to go full screen. Once the movie is full screen the image is instantly distorted. It looks like 2 pictures are overlayed over eachother and offset slightly.
This occurs in both Windows media player AND VLC. This JUST happend recently...I think after I installed the latest windows patch (the windows genuine thing). Other than that no hardware/software changes took place.
In an attempt to fix the problem I installed the latest CCCP (combined community codec pack) and the problem persists. I've tried playing various types of media files (not just one file over and over again) and I've tried playing files I've watched before and KNOW for certain are not corrupted. Rebooting doesn't help either obviously.

Help? This is extremely annoying since it JUST happened and I don't see a reason for why it occured.

**I'd upload a picture somewhere but screenshots come out normal (how lovely)

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maybe the fullscreen mode changes the resolution so the image gets interpolated by your screen (and that looks bad).
what happens if you just maximize the movie player?

Just about to add that: Maximizing (Dragging the window larger) works until I reach near the end of the screen. It would seem that the horizontial stretching is whats causing the problem because when I pull it over to the side of the screen, thats when it gets distorted. I'll reset my CCCP settings and make sure its not ineterpolated.

ugh no luck.. I'm gonna try a clean install of CCCP. It never gave me problems in the past... I wonder why its all wonky all of a sudden. (Remember I was having the problem before installing the latest CCCP codecs over the old one)

No clue what the problem is. However in my opinion it's most likely not the codec, but your video card driver. Most video cards accelerate video in overlay mode and are capable of adding all kinds of effects to it. Maybe some setting went wrong and now it's doing something weird with the video instead.

Try disableing overlay mixer.

FUCKING WINDOWS 98!

I DO have 3rd party Omega drivers installed for my geforce 6800gt...maybe this latest windows patch screwed something up? I dunno its just so bizarre. I don't THINK i have anything set to overlay... but its happening in every video player I have so its boggling my mind as to why the image is getting distorted.

sigh.. maybe its time to do a reformat and put XP64bit back on. Then at least I wouldn't have to deal with that fag-ass windows genuine