No background in Win2000

[dexa_007]

I'm working on a temp laptop at school. The backgrounds in MSWord, etc aren't showing correctly. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Jeff

[Maxtr0sity]

Screenshot?

=)

[dexa_007]

A screenshot wouldn't really help? I simply set my bgcolor to black and it shows up white. Same with any other color. When the file's checked on a different computer, it looks fine.

???

[Maxtr0sity]

I'm not sure what your problem is anymore, is Windows screwing up or is it MS Word?

=)

[dexa_007]

This glitch is affecting all applications. My files work fine on other systems. Strange.

I suspect the video card is wacko.

J

[Maxtr0sity]

Most likely so, try restarting?

=)

[NaliWarCow]

Flash was doing this to me for a while. I'd draw a line or color something green or blue or red, but it'd all show up black or a shade of black. There was something you had to change under window i believe, but that was macromedia and not microsoft. Sorry, can't help you.

[Niann]

Make sure the settings for the display are set for 16bit or 32bit graphics. Other then that it may be the vid card going crasy.

Cheers!
-Niann

[mlk]

yup it does that - probably problem with video hardware acceleration try running a dxdiag (run- command)

sometimes videos can play on your desktop and yet when you take a screenshot it wont take anything - that's because the video is not coming for your memory but right from the video card (or dvd player for example) that's why you cant take a DVD screenshot...

dont know if it's your problem or if it helps - probably not... =)

[Maxtr0sity]

Mlk, I have the same thing with screenshotting my TV Tuner Card. It's awfully weird, if I press a screenshot and paste it into Paint or Photoshop, the actual area of my TV is actually moving. But after I save it and view it, it's just black. Thank god I don't need that anymore though because the new version of that program supports screenshots in the program.

=)

[Niann]

Sometimes the reason screenshots from a video stream do not work properly is the frame rate of the video compared to the refresh rate of the monitor. So if your video is playing at 29.97fps (NTSC Interlaced) or 24fps (PAL for you UK people) and your monitor is refreshing at 70(+)Hz When you take a screen shot the video stream and screen refresh are not synced up. This is what can cause goofy looking screenshots of vid capture cards, mpg, avi, etc. If its a black frame you most likely snagged a dead frame that can be inserted into NTSC stuff if it is telecined wrong, or if you get a shot with a bunch of lines through it, you got either the a or b frame of an interlaced frame set. Add in the fact that when you compress your video stream you can set the frame rate to whatever you want, and the only truely reliable way to get a frame of video is to extract it from the source, with the right tools. :nerd:

Cheers!
-Niann

[dexa_007]

Well, that sounds easy enough. (-:

[TheOrangeOne]

Originally posted by mlkdesign
sometimes videos can play on your desktop and yet when you take a screenshot it wont take anything - that's because the video is not coming for your memory but right from the video card (or dvd player for example) that's why you cant take a DVD screenshot...

hey i've always wondered why that happens...
Anyone know how i can take a screenshot of a DivX file? i really want to use some futurama screenshots as my desktop

[Niann]

You can open the avi in a program called virtual dub, and take a screen shot from that program.

Cheers!
-Niann