reinstalled my OS, now all video has low color depth?

[tsioc]

I had a hard drive crash on me, and reinstalled XP, have all the updates.

For some reason, no matter what program I use, all videos that I play look like they have a very low color depth... why is that?

any ideas?

[waheed]

Try increasing the colour quality of your GPU to 32 bit under display properties in control panel.

[Bodyslide]

You might need to install newer drivers for the video card as well...

[tsioc]

I made sure I did both of those things while I was setting it up.

the color only looks like that in video, everything else displays properly.

[Bodyslide]

What are you using to view the videos. There might be a setting in the application that needs to be tweaked.

[johns0]

If you have a geforce video card then the newest driver will mess up your gamma setting causing the video to look washed out.Download the beta driver cause that will fix it.

[tsioc]

I've been using WMP10 and Media Player Classic

I DO have a geforce, and the newest drivers... I'll try an older driver.

[tsioc]

that was it.

thanks!

[man_friday]

I have a similar, if not the same, problem. All video seetings are adjusted to give best performance but playing any vid with any app gives a washed out appearance , except when I install and older gForce2 card, than all is okay, the newer vid card is GForceFX 5500 and pointers would be appreciated.

[man_friday]

Problem solved as per these posts, thanks