10-30-2006, 03:46 AM
Quote:Thanks, looks good. However, seems videos still tend to look very dark. Starting to wonder if it is some setting with my drivers or monitor.
EDIT: Seemed it was some settings with "overlay" in the driver settings. The one in the controll panle simply was lagged like mad, but managed to get it restored to "normal" when I got the settings back to the old style. No idea what the overlay is or if it should be desiabled or what. Oh well, at least it is back to normal brightness now.
Video overlay is a feature of video cards that allows you to adjust video settings like brightness, contrast, gamma, etc. directly through the driver software. They take effect when playing movie clips.
Go ahead and disable overlay if you'd like. I only made use of it when I had an old CRT monitor that had an overly-dark image. Bumping up the brightness of the monitor wouldn't allow me to watch video clips, but using overlay did wonders.