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ok, i updated my drivers to the new nvidia 77.72 version a few days ago, and now i cant play any video files. every time i try to start one up it opens the player and locks up, it doesnt even start it or anything. i have to reboot my comp to get out of it, there is no error message or anything it just freezes everything. if anyone knows what the problem is or how i can fix it, it would be appreciated. i already tried downloading the divx codecs and stuff, i dont know why its doing this they worked fine before i updated the drivers.

Have you attempted to install the previous drivers again?

no, i dont have them. they are the forceware drivers from nvidia.com, im not sure if i can get the old ones back.

P.S. i found the driver archive, im going to attempt to reinstall the old drivers and see what happens.

I am going to go out on a limb. Were the drivers you just installed the beta drivers that game with BFII?

EDIT: ok seems like that was the problem, i deleted the new drivers (77.72) and reinstalled the old ones (71.89) and now the video is playing fine. nice bug they got there, i was trying to watch the auto-assault gameplay movies. i guess this can be a warning to anyone else, if you like your media files dont upgrade to version 77.72, lol.

For future reference, A really nice page for drivers (both ATi, Nvidia, Nforce... almost any) is http://www.guru3d.com/. It also has overclocking utilities, becnhmarks and a host of other things.

all that did was link me to the nvidia forceware drivers at nvidia.com...that is what i was having trouble with in the first place. *sigh* i already fixed it anyways, so that was unnecessary.

He said "for the future" just so you could have it handy at a later date. As for me I would suggest www.tweaksrus.com for Nvidia drivers. I've had TONS of problem with Nvidia drivers, but that was with my laptop.s Extreme G ( which you can find on the tweaksrus homepage ) puts out GREAT Nvidia drivers. However, last I checked they were only up to 77.62 ( which is what I am currently using without a single issue ).

I've heard a lot of talk that 77.72 has a codec conflict issue, which is probably what you experienced.