How do I play full screen videos with my FW-190?

I'm having a bit of trouble changing my settings so I can watch videos in full screen, for example any video hosted on a site, youtube, break, etc. I've been tooling with the Catalyst Control Center but I can't quite get it. When I use the expand button the picture goes full screen but all that shows is black and gray, separated by a diagonal line through the screen.

Could someone give me a brief walkthrough on how to watch full screen videos?

Thanks for any help!

 

Update your Flash player, or turn off hardware acceleration in Flash player settings..

 

I tried both, I installed the 10.0.12.36 flash player, restarted, but it didnt work. I was uable to tamper with the hardware acceleration - "Your current display driver doews not allow changes to be made to the hardware acceleration settings."

..any other suggestions? did i install the right flash player?

Thanks!

 

Yeah you have the latest flash player..

Do you have the ATI card or the Intel IGP??

 

I want to say I bought the ATI card but I don't remember for sure. Is there an easy way for me to tell? I can't find a reciept and I can't figure my username and password for sonystyle.com..

 

it's actually pretty easy to tell...
if you didn't take any stickers off the laptop... there should be an ATI sticker on the palmrest.

Or you can go to device manage and check it there...

 

Ha yeah the stickers were gone actually. But, turns out I have the ATI card..

 

hmm.. that's weird...
even though i dont have the same model as yours but i have the same graphics card and i had the same problem at first but turning off "hardware acceleration" solved the problem..

Did you do a clean install of vista?? or are you sure you have the graphics card driver installed??

 

I had this same diagonal line problem with my FW and Youtube. Thankfully I read about a fix here that worked...

- Right click on the Youtube video you are trying to view, select 'Settings'.
- Uncheck the 'Enable Hardware Acceleration' checkbox.

This is what helped me.....give it a try. When I had first read about disabling Hardware Acceleration, I assumed it was a setting with my ATI card or somewhere on my computer. It hadn't occured to me it could be so simple and that I could do this on right on the Youtube video itself. Good Luck!

 

I suggested that already, but the OP said it didn't work and it gave him an error message

 

VERY odd. When I tried to tamper with the hardware acceleration via right clicking the desktop>Personalization>Display settings>Advanced Opt.>Troubleshoot the option was disabled, claiming my display driver would not allow changes to the hardware accelerator. BUT, right clicking on the video allowed me to disable the accelerator. So everything is great...

Thank you both very much for the help!

btw - what is it exactly that the hardware accelerator does? rather, what exactly am i losing by turning it off?