Blank screen in Vista Media Center

scottnic · Post by **scottnic** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:17 am

I have had G-Force working in Vista Media Center in the past, but I've got a new system with a new install and it's not working.

If G-Force is the default visualization when I select "Visualize" while music is playing, I get the Media Center overlays (album art at the bottom and "Press PgUp/PgDn to change visualizations" at the top), but instead of G-Force underneath I can see my desktop.

If I cycle through the Windows Visualizations (Battery, Alchemy, etc) then back to G-Force, I see a frozen version of whatever viz I've just come from.

G-Force works fine in WMP.

Any ideas?

juxtiphi · Post by **juxtiphi** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:06 pm

have updated GF recently ? if not it may help

scottnic · Post by **scottnic** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:18 pm

I installed the most recent version on a clean Vista install only a few days ago.

More info:

SoftSkies <demo> doesn't work either.

WhiteCap <demo> doesn't work if it's the default viz when I select "Visualize" in Media Center, but if I switch to another viz and then back, WhiteCap does work.

Winter Wonders <demo> is the same as WhiteCap -- no go if it's the default when I select "Visualize", but works if I switch to another viz then back again.

Both WhiteCap and Winter Wonders exhibit the same behavior as G-Force and SoftSkies when first run -- the desktop is visible "through" the Media Center visualization overlay.

This is on an integrated Radeon X1250 using the latest Catalyst drivers from ATI.

Any more suggestions?