Not getting any interpolation/hardware acceleration since upgrading

[Obs]

Ever since upgrading to Windows 7 from XP I've been getting blocky, non-interpolated image/video resizing in just about every application. To top it off, the section to change this option in advanced display settings is greyed out. I also noticed the new windows photo viewer has gone 20 years forward into the past by featuring only point sampling.
Is there a way to fix this?

 

[townsbg]

Have you installed the correct drivers for Windows 7? Without knowing anything else about your system all we can do is speculate. Also did you ensure that your system is compatible with 7?

 

[Obs]

Yes, I downloaded and installed the latest NVIDIA drivers for my 9500GT video card. I'll produce any requested info about my system. Thx.

Also did you ensure that your system is compatible with 7?

"System"? I'm using windows 7 as we speak. If my computer wasn't compatible wouldn't it not work at all? It's an i7 computer from 2010 so I'm pretty sure it is.

 

[townsbg]

Try using drivers from the card's manufacturer.

 

[Obs]

Try using drivers from the card's manufacturer.

I don't understand. Who is NVIDIA's manufacturer?

 

[townsbg]

nVidia only produces the chips. Other manufacturers use the chips to create their cards.

 

[Obs]

Oh, how do I find this out?

 

[townsbg]

Look at the box. I'll say the manufacturer.

 

[Obs]

What box?

 

[townsbg]

The box your card would have come it. Not sure how to help you find the manufacturer if you don't have the box or know what it is.

 

[Obs]

Why would I still have the box of something I bought nearly 7 years ago? I was hoping by 'box' you meant the computer.

 

[Layback Bear]

Use this program to get your information.

https://www.piriform.com/speccy

And or this.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

 

[Obs]

Video chipset
Video Chipset: nVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
Video Chipset Codename: D9M-30
Video Memory: 1024 MBytes of DDR2 SDRAM

Video Card
Video Card: XFX GeForce 9500 GT
Video Bus: PCIe v2.0 x16 (5.0 Gb/s) @ x16 (5.0 Gb/s)
Video RAMDAC: Integrated RAMDAC
Video BIOS Version: 62.94.4B.00.96
Video Chipset Revision: A1

Performance
Processor Clock: 550.0 MHz
Geometry Unit Clock: 550.0 MHz
Shader Unit Clock: 1350.0 MHz
Memory Clock: 399.6 MHz (Effective 799.2 MHz)
Memory Bus Width: 128-bit
Number Of ROPs: 8
Number Of Unified Shaders: 32

nVidia SLI Status: Enabled

Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0640&SUBSYS_400A1682&REV_A1

Driver Information
Driver Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Driver Description: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
Driver Provider: NVIDIA
Driver Version: 9.18.13.4052
Driver Date: 01-Jul-2014
DeviceInstanceId PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0640&SUBSYS_400A1682&REV_A1\4&113C73B2&0&0018

I don't see anything except NVIDIA there.

 

[Obs]

And here's the info speccy gives:

Manufacturer NVIDIA
Model GeForce 9500 GT
GPU G96
Device ID 10DE-0640
Revision A2
Subvendor XFX Pine Group (1682)
Current Performance Level Level 0
Technology 65 nm
Die Size 144 mm²
Transistors 314 M
Release Date Jul 29, 2008
DirectX Support 10.0
DirectX Shader Model 4.0
OpenGL Support 3.0
Bus Interface PCI Express x16
Temperature 50 °C
Driver version 9.18.13.4052
BIOS Version 62.94.4b.00.96
ROPs 8
Shaders 32 unified
Memory 1024 MB
Bus Width 128 Bit

You kept talking about the "manufacturer" of the card and downloading their drivers but all this info says the manufacturer is NVIDIA. The only other party I see is the subvendor XFX Pine groups, is this what I need to look for?

 

[townsbg]

You should be able to get drivers here: Drivers | GeForce
You will want the drivers for the geforce 9 series for 7 32-bit. I suggest that you install the drivers first. Display Driver Uninstaller Download version 13.4.0.0