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Win DVD: "Create Overlay Failed Try Lower Screen Res&qu

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Hey

 

I have a copy of Win DVD 3.2 and a Creative Labs 12X DVD Player along with an ATI Radeon 7500 Graphics card running Direct X 8.1 and the Lastest drivers.

 

Every time i try to play a DVD i get the MEssage

 

Create Overlay Failed, Please Lower your screen resolution or colour depth and try again

 

Even when i do this the same message keeps on appearing, any ideas on how to get this to work??

 

Another thing this was working a couple of days ago on the same computer!! i cant think what graphics wise has changed!

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Did you run Netmeeting recently? I was getting the same error message too and managed to track it down to Netmeeting causing the problem. If you run and then close Netmeeting, the problem should go away.

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hey

ok i found out that it was because i disabled direct draw in the direct x program!!, i have been experiencing other problems with my computer so i disabled that in trying to solve this other prolem lol and i forgot to enable it again

 

if you still have probs with it i typed the error message in to google and it came up with some possible solutions mainly things like video drivers but its worth a look

 

Thanks

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