# Screwed up video playback

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screwed-up-video-playback/213354>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 15, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screwed-up-video-playback/213354 "2003-11-15T01:34:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screwed-up-video-playback/213354/1 "2003-11-15T01:34:42Z")

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Whenever I try to play video on my computer, it is always extremely dark and slightly green tinted. Everything else looks fine, it’s just the video always looks off. I can sometimes fix it by pausing it, switching windows for a second or two and coming back to the video, but that usually doesn’t fix it for long. Is this a common problem, and is there any way I can fix it short of getting a new video card?

(I’m using a GeForce MX420 on Windows XP Pro. All the latest drivers are installed.)

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**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screwed-up-video-playback/213354/2 "2003-11-15T02:13:54Z")

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Well I seem to have fixed it by tweaking some DirectX settings.