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    Green Youtube Videos

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by Indiran, Aug 7, 2011.

  1. Indiran

    Indiran Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi Guys, im having a little problem here started few days back. Im sure i had the hardware acceleration enabled in flash option and the video was playing well. But then it started to be completely green now, though i can still hear the sounds. Not only youtube, but other videos through google chrome. Tried IE9 and still same. I had to disable the hardware acceleration in order to view the video.

    So im wondering, is this something wrong with my graphics card?

    Info: I had flash player updated to latest
    Google chrome updated to latest.
    GFX card ATI 5850 - Driver Packaging Version 8.85-110419a-118909C-ATI
    Driver version 11.5

    Any help appreciated ^^.
     
    Indiran, Aug 7, 2011
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  2. Indiran

    Indiran Notebook Evangelist

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    Edit, also noticed my youtube vids have kindda like stammering for 1 sec, usually mid video. Worrying that gfx may be dying :confused:
     
    Indiran, Aug 20, 2011
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  3. Krakatoa_Coo

    Krakatoa_Coo Notebook Guru

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    I had the green screen issue until I disabled the hardware acceleration, but I don't have a stammering issue.
     
    Krakatoa_Coo, Aug 21, 2011
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  4. pepemosca

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    Stup*d insight, did you try a different ATI driver version? An old one?
     
    pepemosca, Aug 22, 2011
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  5. miahsoul

    miahsoul Notebook Deity

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    Turn off hardware acceleration. You don't need it.

    Nothing is wrong with your GPU, I'm pretty sure it's just a glitch with flash.
     
    miahsoul, Aug 22, 2011
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    Had the same troubles. Disabling the hardware acceleration direclty in flash fixed the trouble. Permanent fix for me was updating the driver (don't remember which one 'fixed' this trouble).
     
    patrick_dube, Aug 22, 2011
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