Laptop graphics freeze after closing VLC player

[bushkangar]

I recently got a new laptop (Dell Latitude E5510)
I installed VLC player 1.1.5
Movie playback (mostly avis) is problem free.
Until I close VLC player.
Everytime I close the player, the display freezes. It's difficult to subscribe.
Windows don't refresh, sometimes the display kind of breaks up; the desktop background appears in rows between the open windows.
The taskbar no longer works, clicking on items in it does not refresh the display; although the item is activated...

Only solution so far has been to shutdown the laptop and restart.

I went back to v1.1.0 rc1 and the problem exists there.
Next step will be to go to 1.0.5.

This never occurred with my previous Dell laptop, although I'm not sure what the vlc version was.

Any ideas?

[VLC_help]

Does it help if you change video output module?
http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-1.1 ... _output.3F

[devzero]

can you please check if the following does apply:

- you have a realtek/ac97 soundchip
- you play a video with ac3 encoded audio

[bushkangar]

I upgraded the driver version for the Intel HD graphics card and that seems to have solved the problem.

thanks for your suggestions.