Problem with colour

[Squid_uk]

Hey guys, all of a sudden when play a movie, video clip etc on my system i have notived that the colour is not right, it is quite dark, now this is happening with real player, windows media and PowerDVD, anybody have any idea what could have caused this and how i can fix it?

Many Thanks!

[Squid_uk]

Forgot to mention that it is happening with all types of videos including playing straight from a DVD

Here are some specs

OS:Windows XP
Processor:AMD Athlon Dual Core 64
Graphics Card: NVIDIA Ge-Force 6600

The only codec pack i know i have installed is DivX and XVid, I have recently updated drivers for the card which was last week

And it is only the Vids that are dim and nothin else

[jagabo]

All those programs use hardware overlay. Check your graphics driver's overlay settings.

[Squid_uk]

that seems to have solved the problem!

Thanks Jagabo!

[Squid_uk]

Right i know i said bout that i solved the problem but i really havent im having trouble trying to get the setting right

Here is an image of the settings panel

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d152/Squid_uk/Nvidia.jpg

Could anybody tell me what the standard setting would be?

[jagabo]

That dialog says "Overay is disabled". You need to enable overlay for those controls to work.

Nvidia always seems to screw up the overlay settings when you update drivers. The thing to do is disable overlay, close the dialog, reenable overlay, then adjst the settings.

Computer monitors are very different than TVs. Video that looks fine on a TV will look dark and over saturated on a computer monitor.

[Squid_uk]

It was disabled i was actually playing a video clip when i took the screen shot