Webcam Issues[MSN Messenger]

[darksidepuffin]

This problem is sorta second hand given that it's not me having it...it's someone else I know...but I've seen the results of it, and more importantly, the lack of ability to fix them.


Webcam: Nexxtech USB Web Camera
MSN Version: 7
OS: Windows XP

Recently this person re-installed her camera, and at first was recieving extremely lower quality than she was recieving earlier today[~2 hours ago...exact same lightning/etc. conditions] -- toying with the settings resulted in nothing but ultimately resulted in her stream turning -green-..and any changes in "lightness" or such...turning blue...it was like the color channels were split..or it was like a green histogram sort of colorization...really gross looking.

Does that make sense?


Well...my question is -- does anyone have any ideas for things I could suggest to this person to hopefully fix/help fix the issue?

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

The same thing with all hardware. Make sure your friend has the latest drivers for the camera. Vist the camera maker's website and try to download the drivers they have for the camera. Spyware not likely could be another problem. Another problem might be this person is running too many applications and they don't have enough memory or the video card to handle it. Maybe just maybe the video card settings through the Display (control panel) were some how changed.

[darksidepuffin]

Thanks Aero -- it took a while to find them...but once I found them for her and she restarted...auto re-detection...and voila!...her cam looks as good as it did before -- although I do question why the driver on the cd didn't work(I'm not physically near her...so I can't look at it and see) -- perhaps it wasn't designed for XP?...perhaps it was auto-detected using a basic windows driver?...in any case..it works -- and the quality of her cam frightens me substantially...it's pathetically good. Better than I've ever gotten out of any webcam I've used.

*shrugs* Thanks again ^^