I can’t say I’ve seen anything like this, but one issue I ran into when upgrading a video card a couple years ago is that if you have an older motherboard you may need a BIOS update to support newer graphics cards, so check your motherboard’s compatibility list.
In my case, video that had hardware accelerated decoding would cause the player to crash. (I was moving from and nVidia 6600 to an ATI 4670 FWIW.)
I haven’t seen motherboard compatibility discussed much with relation to graphics cards, so it might just be an issue with my particular VIA chipset.
