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    Image Corruption - anyone ever seen this??

    Any time I open an image in windows, theres a chance it won't load properly, and 1/2 the image (diagonally) is missing. See below..



    If I resize the window (which re-renders the image to a new size), the diagonal half that isn't working can change between black or the previous image, and the unworking half can swap to the other side, or the problem can go away, or (rarely) it will affect both sides of the image leaving just a black screen with a small white (?? or possibly the original image) diagonal line. This also happens on the windows pictures screensaver..

    I could live with this, but just knocked a movie together with windows live movie maker, and its happening in the credits to that (on the exported file). I thought it might just be my graphics driver, but if it occurs on a movie that has been exported to another file, and when I do a screenshot, it can't be (right??)! I've just re-installed windows live to the latest version to see if it was that and no luck. Also searching for 'half image missing' etc finds nothing.

    Programs which I know are affected are windows photo gallery, windows live photo gallery, windows live picture screen saver and windows movie maker. Doesn't seem to affect the windows desktop or internet explorer

    any ideas? I guess its a central dll of some sort but don't know where to start. Its Windows 7 home premium.

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    Re: Image Corruption - anyone ever seen this??

    If a superior program such as Faststone Image Viewer (which is excellent) or Irfanview (excellent, but I can't get the full-screen display to work half as well as Faststone's) work fine, then I'd suspect there's a dodgy system file or something in your system.

    I'd automatically install the latest graphics drivers if you haven't already. If things still aren't working, then do a memtest86+ (the bootable CD version). If that comes back clear after a couple of passes, then I'd try running SFC /scannow which will check your system files for corruption or missing files - you may need you Windows installation media if it finds a file which needs replacing.

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    Re: Image Corruption - anyone ever seen this??

    I'll try one of them tonight. I suspect they will work, as iexplore works fine, and that's resizing images all the time. I ran that command but it didn't fix anything, I've also updated directx.

    Haven't done my graphics drivers as I've got a ATI card, using hdmi audio out, and the ATI drivers cause glitching on the sound (by causing the cards clock speed to alter in a powersaving effort - the clocking alteration causes the issue) - however I figured if this is happening in screenshots and windows movie maker exports, it must be something that's happening in the layer below the driver (right??)
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    Re: Image Corruption - anyone ever seen this??

    Quote Originally Posted by this_is_gav View Post
    If a superior program such as Faststone Image Viewer (which is excellent) or Irfanview (excellent, but I can't get the full-screen display to work half as well as Faststone's) work fine, then I'd suspect there's a dodgy system file or something in your system.

    I'd automatically install the latest graphics drivers if you haven't already. If things still aren't working, then do a memtest86+ (the bootable CD version). If that comes back clear after a couple of passes, then I'd try running SFC /scannow which will check your system files for corruption or missing files - you may need you Windows installation media if it finds a file which needs replacing.
    First off lets not call them superior. They are not in some ways (I say this as a faststone user!).

    This strikes me as the hardware accelleration issue. It would be intresting to see if this issue happens in faststone, given the old-school APIs they use, I doubt it would.

    Turn off hardware acceleration and see if that fixes it? Assuming it does try the latest drivers with HW/A on, if that still craps up well that is kinda nasty. But you might want to try this dudes codecs:
    http://www.fastpictureviewer.com/codecs/

    As ultiamtely it is the codec subsystem entry point to the graphics layer that is likely to be giving this issue.
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    Re: Image Corruption - anyone ever seen this??

    I have this same issue where in certain programs the image is diagonally cut off that improves sometimes with image resizing. for me it happens in adobe acrobat, windows image viewer, and most recently in turbotax. I have an acer laptop running windows 7.
    PLease help with any ideas on a fix!

    thank you!

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    Re: Image Corruption - anyone ever seen this??

    Are you using the latest graphics drivers?

    Does this happen if you turn off hardware acceleration?

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    Re: Image Corruption - anyone ever seen this??

    oh thank you for the response! I went to the graphics drive in the control panel and tried to update the driver, and windows says it has the most updated driver - is that accurate?

    and how do I turn off hardware acceleration? I dont know what that is

    im not really a computer person, but pretty good at figuring things out... and every time I call for support it seems (belkin, acer are some examples) they screw up everything more, waste hours of my time in the process, and I just end up having to figure things out on my own from the internet to fix anyways. love these forums!!

    thanks for your time and help!

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    Re: Image Corruption - anyone ever seen this??

    Quote Originally Posted by caricia View Post
    how do I turn off hardware acceleration? I dont know what that is
    http://www.pixelmetrics.com/Tips/Vid...celeration.php or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiu2vop-10o will show you how
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