Seek advice video/monitor driver

[Jarrod32]

So I go to watch MLBtv.com, and I get a jumpy picture and a warning message that my device driver has stopped working and has recovered. Until eventually the computer just crashes. It works fine to watch you tube videos, and other streaming video. My video card seems to be allright, as I am able to run higher end graphics (Civilization IV runs just fine). Not quite sure what is going on...can anyone give me any advice or hints as to what is going on?

[CAMAN]

Make sure the drivers are up to date.

[PierBridge]

Do you use Media Player to view the video?

[upnorth]

One thing to try is to go the video card drivers web site and get the latest drivers they have. Too often Windows will do an update and bring in new drivers for devices and they don't always work the best. Better to get device drivers from the manufacturer.

[Jarrod32]

I think that is what is going on. It doesn't recognize any updates, and the system says that the device driver is working properly. I tried to install the drivers that came with my monitor, but in order to do that, I would need to un-install the existing driver. I haven't quite been brave enough to do that yet...

The odd thing is that I haven't made any changes since last year, when the MLBtv worked just fine. Not quite sure what happened...

[delcecchi]

My guess would be that the web site made changes. Second guess would be updates to browser or not updating browser. Third would be down level plug in for viewing. The idea that something suddenly went wrong with the driver for the monitor is further down the list.

[Jarrod32]

Video card is an ATI Radeon Xpress 1150. Error message orignally said "display driver atikmdag stopped responding and has recovered". It does that a few times, then a full crash. So I downloaded a different driver. Now the error message says "display driver R300 stopped responding and has recovered", also ending in a full crash. So I go to the ATI HSOforum, download their recommended/most recent driver, and it is back to the original error message about display driver atikmdag stopping working.

So now I am wondering if it is actually the driver, and not something else.

[upnorth]

Try turning down the hardware acceleration and see if that helps.

[pureinsanity]

do you have the latest flash updates or plugins?

[Jarrod32]

I didn't come back here to update; but unselecting the hardware acceleration option solved the problem. Thanks, upnorth...

[upnorth]

Glad it worked and happy to help.