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Im trying to do the fullscreen thing, but i cant when i select the directdraw overlay my cameras freeze so i cant get fullscreen, my question is... directdraw? what is it?? does it come with the video card? software? thanx

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Maybe its your video card? What kinda video card is it and what kinda DVR card is it? Also does your PC meet the minimum specs for the DVR card? This this fullscreen feature work before or is this the first time you are trying to use this feature. I'm gonna guess that its your videocard, although I could be wrong if your video card meets the requirements.

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Direct Draw Overlay uses a dedicated part of video memory that belongs to that application alone. If the Video card cannot assign that memory for some reason or another, the application process will fail; in this case, black screen?

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On the DVR PC, goto Start, Run, and type in "DxDiag"

Next, click the "Display" tab. Click the "Test Direct Draw" button.

 

It will run a series of tests. If the full screen test fails then there is a problem.

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This is the one we were talking about which might have been a clone, but thought perhaps it is just second hand. Sounds like a bad card, or the card version simply cant run 8.xx.

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im running v7 because v8 says no video

and while using v7 when i try to fullscreen everything gets frozen

 

some issues on combo cards using direct draw overlay, entering Fullscreen is ok, when exiting the geovision.exe file crash.

 

Have 2 systems doing this, but identical systems do not have it, same hardware/software/settings, so is a bit of mistery.

 

JD

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Hi.. I have the same problem I have a Intel Board and a Core 2 Duo procesor and a a Geforce 256Mb ... I format the C:/ but nothing.. if I activate the he Direct Draw Overlay option to get the full screen everything get freeze!

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I had a similar problem on one of the installs, what I did to solve it was donloaded the latest drivers for Geforce, and then after reboot, install the the latest directx from microsoft.

 

No problem after that.

 

regds

 

Edward

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Though I have used nVidia video cards in the past, for all my Geo systems I use ATI typically, never had any issues like that .. yet.

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