[merlinxi]

For some reason I cannot SEE Movies in games I play,. no matter what game it is. I can play them manually in windows, is this a directshow issue>?

[Dyre Straits]

Originally Posted by merlinxi

For some reason I cannot SEE Movies in games I play,. no matter what game it is. I can play them manually in windows, is this a directshow issue>?

Did you recently install another video player that may have changed the default player for the type of files the game uses?

[merlinxi]

But how would you assign what video player to use when the game uses it? Doesn't the game have an internal player?

[Dyre Straits]

Originally Posted by merlinxi

But how would you assign what video player to use when the game uses it? Doesn't the game have an internal player?

I've had the same type of issue in the past. (Forget offhand which game/s was/were affected, though.)

Eventually, what worked for me was to totally uninstall the game after backing up my saved games. Run a Registry Cleaner (CCleaner is very good: CCleaner - Home ) and reboot and install the game fresh again.

As for how this happens, if another program changes the priority of whatever the game uses, it can mess things up.