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Video goes blank while playing PC games

Fai

Posted 19 June 2010 - 11:19 AM

Fai

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Hi!
I just wanted to know if anyone had a solution for my little problem which I didn't have before XD.
I've had windows XP installed before but when I reformatted my computer and reinstalled XP a certain annoying problem occured which prevents me from watching movie in the background when playing a game (Dual monitors).
The video just goes blank while you can still hear the sound and it occurs during games like Warcraft 3 and such things.
I just joined this forum and am quite new to this, but I've already looked around for quite a long time around the net for this problem and there's been other cases like this but never found a solution (already searched on this forum )

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Tam2u

Posted 19 June 2010 - 11:39 AM

Fai

Posted 19 June 2010 - 11:50 AM

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It's a pretty old model ASUS EAH3550 and the drivers are up to date (using driver genius to update regularly) and the problem occured even with a single monitor. Videoplayers like VLC,windows media player crashed in the background after trying to switch to another video while the focus was in the game.
I didn't have this problem before reformatting...

Fai

Posted 03 July 2010 - 12:47 AM

mclean

Posted 05 July 2010 - 06:13 AM

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You may be overloading the memory and/or video card from what you are doing.......playing a video game AND running a movie puts a heavy load on a computer and your old one probably can't handle it. You could try adding more memory and getting a newer video card with more memory if you really must run the two processes simultaneously.