Anyone Know What Causes this Distortion?

[Rich54]

Not a Photoshop question, but hopefully someone can help me. In the screen-shot below, there is a large green area that is actually supposed to be a normal-looking video advertisement. But as you can see it is all distorted, over-saturated and the lettering is unreadable. I get this kind of distortion a lot with certain video content and I’m pretty sure it’s due to my outdated software, but I was wondering if anybody knows more specifically what causes this problem, which only occurs with videos (and not all the time). My PC is roughly 8 year old and I’m running Windows Vista Home Basic and Internet Explorer 9.

 

[MrToM]

That's just a flash advert but I'd say it was an out-of date Flash Player version......it has recently been updated too so its worth checking.

Use the link below to check your Flash Player version...

https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html

Regards.
MrToM.

 

[Rich54]

Thanks. I do receive periodic updates to Flash Player, but the website you provided has some troubleshooting tips that I'll look into.

 

[MrToM]

No worries...

Taking into consideration that Vista was never really that stable and IE is now at version 11 that your combination just doesn't work that well with modern websites.

Lets face it, Vista and IE9 are both relatively old.

Does IE 11 run on Vista? That may help.......I don't know what runs on what when it comes to IE.

You could also try disabling Hardware Acceleration, that can sometimes screw things up.

Regards.
MrToM.

 

[MikeMc]

Try switching over to Mozilla /Firefox browser. Vista can do some unique things, but the browser issues is solved by stop using Explorer.

Second thought, your anti virus could also create the issue on older browsers....If you must use Explorer, switch over to Microsoft Security Essentials... MSE it will work much better

 

[Rich54]

I switched to Firefox today and that cleared up the problem. Also, all websites in general now seem to load faster and work better (including PSG, which used to freeze on me a lot while typing these posts). Thanks to all for the advice.