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Windvd error with XP

Feb 16, 2005 10:18AM PST

This is the first time I played a DVD on my Gateway laptop, but WinDVD kept giving me the "create overlay failed - lower your resolution or color depth". I checked, and 800x400 is as low as it can go. it didn't work

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