sere83

Hi everyone,

I am having a problem with an ati radeon x300 driver and just wondered if you might be able to help?

I basically did a clean install of windows 7 on my pentium 3.0ghz with 3gb ram and everything worked great.

However.....I installed an updated video driver for my x300 and installed photoshop cs4 and also a reg entry which adobe offer to force enable hardware acceleration when the option is not available in your display adaptor properties.

Anyway since I installed cs4 and ran the new drivers and reg entry flash video playback within all my browsers has suffered.

It is ok when small, but when full screen it drops frames although it is not that bad at all just irritating. Another thing i noticed is 720p youtube playback is very laggy and before it used to play fine.

Anyway i booted in XP (i have a dual boot system) and tried to run flash videos and they did the same. However in my Xp config I can lower the hardware acceleration which I did (by 1 notch) and it fixed the issue.

However in Windows 7 & I have this new driver installed which doesn't seem to support the changing of hardware acceleration. I amd pretty sure If I lower it it will be fine but I can't get to the setting.

I tried uninstalling the card and installing the older drivers in safe mode but it wouldn't let me. Does anyone know how I can lower hardware acceleration so I can get these videos playing back properly?

Any help hugely appreciated...

Btw its Windows 7 X64 Ultimate