I decided yesterday to go get the latest driver with hopes FS might perform a tad better.

The end result is it runs the same but a issue has popped up. When I watch a video with Media Player, Real Player, or any other player the video colors look almost as if they were inverted but not quite. Looks like the sharpness and contrast is all turned way up making giving it a 'techno music video' feel.

Any clues on setting that may need to be changed? I've played with the color settings in Nvidia but that didn't do anything but there were set to the middle where they have always been anyway.

I got the same kind of problems with my FX5200 since I bought it (since my father bought it exactly). When I start CFS 3, the textures flash and the image is stuck. In other games like Act Of War, the textures doesn't even appear and my computer reboots. I've dowloaded the latest drivers but there's actually more problems than before. I've encountered the same problems with Media player. Tell me if you can do anything for me i'm fucking desperated. The only thing I can do is play CS 1.6 after running Solidworks 2005 (a DAO software). I hope my english ain't too bad and that you can help me.

The 5200 is the problem.

One day you guys will realise that.

A 5500 is a 5200 with a heap of slow ram thrown in as a marketing gimmick to offload the sorry GPU's onto the public.

The 5200's came out with the launch of the FX series of nvidia cards as a mass market low end replacement for the MX series. They offered slighty better performance and DX9 support........ they are outdated, they were junk when released, and shouldn't be on gaming machines in my opinion. ATI offers better low end graphics solutions.

Unless you have a specific problem with video drivers, it's not really useful to update them all the time, I doubt any driver series has a specific driver that increases performance more than 10%. .........more like 3% between any of them. You just leave yourself open to problems messing about with it.

Driver updating is used all the time by those that have totally inadequate hardware in a desperate attempt to mask the blatant truth and eek out ANY slight performance advantage on the junky hardware they own. It doesn't work. Putting up some serious cash and buying a real card is the answer.