New Video Card Can't Play AVI files

[DrFaroohk]

I just installed a Nvidia Geforce 6200 256 mg video card. Seems alright. A friend sent me the link for this 93.81 driver for it, and everything works great except that I can't watch my Burn Notice now. Come to think of it, I just noticed the driver said its for windows XP and I have windows 2000...but that wouldn';t make a difference...right?

[Krispy Kritter]

It's not a driver issue, it's a video codec issue. You likely simply need to reinstall the codec used in your avi files. You can check you files using a program such as gspot. Or you can install/reinstall a player such as VLC or MPC.

[jagabo]

What do you mean you can't watch AVI files? What happens when you try to play one? Do you get an error message? Do you get a black (or some other color) window the size of the video with only audio? Do you get audio only? What player are you using?

[DrFaroohk]

Yay I took care of it! I just downloaded a new driver and it worked fine.

What was going on before was it would freeze up for like 5minutes, then load the file, and play just the sound with a black screen, and the sound was all choppy and comp would barely run. I actually tried reinstalling all my different players and that didn't help. Finally after writing this post it occurred to me to try the driver. It worked!