Vista desktop filcker on LCD monitor w/ iTunes (visualization)

Vista desktop filckers on LCD monitor ONLY when iTunes is displaying visualization and/or when im using QuickTime. Please help. Do i need a better video card than the one the PC came with? Its only a little more than a year old. My HP does not have this problem nor my PC laptop. The issue is with A Dell Inspiron 530s slim built with vista 32 home premium. All drivers are updated. Anyone know why?

Hey, thanks for your reply. What happened was that I went to the Intel website and downloaded a program that checks for driver updates for your display adapter(in device manager) a while back ....and so what I did was downgraded it back to the previous version which works perfect..Intel(R) G33/G31 Express Chipset Family Driver version 7.14.10.1322.... version intel 7.15.10.** messed up APPLE programs. Made my Apple applications like iTunes and Quicktime flash and expose desktop theme for a few seconds on and off.

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hey there Ryan, welcome to discussions!
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Paul...
Here are some ramblingthoughts on your issue. They expand on the good advice you've already received, and thus do not dispute what others have said.
Make certain your drivers for the graphics card are the latest and greatest. This is the first step you should take. You probably have already done that. If not, go do it. But check the next paragraph first.
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Life is too short to drink cheap wine. It's also too short to spend a professional career working with inadequate computing resources, especially when you consider the cost of the capital outlay versus the salaries and the wasted time fooling around trying to make things right. If your employer has artificial limits on spending, go make a business case for better gear.
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It's probably too late to lobby for this, but if I were you, I would strive to get a "dual-head" graphics card, one with two DVI outputs, and put two identical monitors side-by-side. Once you've experienced a dual-monitor setup, you will never be happy with just one screen.
Setting the graphics card resolution for a 16:10 aspect ratio in any other than the native resolution of the monitor will result in "aliasing" artifacts, which may be what you mean by "distortion." The simplistic way to describe the aliasing effect is that some elements of a character inevitably fall in the "cracks" between pixels. When the image resolution setting matches the native resolution, the video data from the card "lines up" perfectly with the pixels, giving the most accurate representation. The other type of distortion that you may be referring to is due to a mismatch of the aspect ration associated with an image resolution setting versus the aspect ratio of the screen. In such situations, a "truly" round circle would appear elliptical on the screen. This is what Winifred is describing. You cannot expect acceptable results with any graphics card setting whose resolution aspect ratio is , relative to the display, mismatched. You must use a setting that corresponds to the 16:10 ratio.
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I am an HP employee. The opinions expressed are my own and not those of HP.

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