Quote:My video card is a much older nVidia chip as well so I am assuming you have the same control location as mine.
Right click in an open area on your desktop. Choose properties. Choose the settings tab. Click the advanced button. There should be a tab there for your video card. Select it. This brings up a tab for the hardware with a selection tree to the side where I expand the tree item for my card. I then expand the tree for Performance & Quality Settings. I then select Overlay Controls. On the bottom of that tab, below the overlay controls, I have a small checkbox that is labeled "Disable hardware overlay". Is that what you are looking for?
I think I have later version of the driver. Under the "Performance and Quality settings", I have nothing related to "Overlay" only "Application profiles" and "Global driver settings", none having anything about Overlays. I have a seperate entry for Vidoe Overlay Settings, but can't turn it off there.
EDIT: I finally found some information on the nVidia forums. Seems there is some problems with the latest driver (91.47 at least) whichis what I use. Seems the problems appear if one use the new control panel settings. It will lag and also adjust the overlay settings so that some video playing will be very dark. Appearantly one can "fix" it by using the old control type (in the settings from the desktop) and also set the overlay options to default. never read them multip page thread to the end, but at least that fixes things for me. Thanks to all of you for the help though.
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