Psychedlic hell

ozmart2005 · Sep 3, 2005, 01:00 PM

I have just bought a new P-IV pc running WinXP pro with an nVidia 6800GT 256MB chip in a Gigabyte card. I have an NEC 19" CRT monitor.

When I play a DVD it looks like I'm having a psychedelic flashback - all bright colours and gritty video. I've been trying to adjust the colour settings but nothing much seems to make a difference. I just installed the latest drivers but they didn't fix it.

I am surprised that I would even have to adjust it at all...surely a DVD should display with the correct colours straight out of the box? Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

PS I just noticed that in the color management setting I have no color profile. If I click 'Add' it opens up a folder with dozens of choices. Should I add one and if so which one?

Thks.

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Update....Eureka! In the Overlay dropdown in Colour Correction, the Gamma was pushed up all the way to the right for some reason. I changed that to the middle and its displaying correctly, Whoo Hoo!

[em]HEAT · Sep 5, 2005, 04:00 PM

What drivers are you using? I know that the 77.72's waashed out the video overlay's, I was experienceing that as well. After updating the drivers the problem went away. Just grab the 77.77's from the Nvidia site and the problem will go away.

ReDGuiTaR · Sep 5, 2005, 04:12 PM

Digital vibrance adjustement can be found in the NVidia graphic panel ...

Sep 3, 2005, 01:00 PM	#1
ozmart2005 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Psychedelic hell I have just bought a new P-IV pc running WinXP pro with an nVidia 6800GT 256MB chip in a Gigabyte card. I have an NEC 19" CRT monitor. When I play a DVD it looks like I'm having a psychedelic flashback - all bright colours and gritty video. I've been trying to adjust the colour settings but nothing much seems to make a difference. I just installed the latest drivers but they didn't fix it. I am surprised that I would even have to adjust it at all...surely a DVD should display with the correct colours straight out of the box? Any suggestions would be most appreciated. PS I just noticed that in the color management setting I have no color profile. If I click 'Add' it opens up a folder with dozens of choices. Should I add one and if so which one? Thks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update....Eureka! In the Overlay dropdown in Colour Correction, the Gamma was pushed up all the way to the right for some reason. I changed that to the middle and its displaying correctly, Whoo Hoo! Last edited by ozmart2005; Sep 3, 2005 at 01:49 PM.

Sep 5, 2005, 04:12 PM	#3
ReDGuiTaR DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Quebec , Canada Posts: 746 Rep Power: 0	Digital vibrance adjustement can be found in the NVidia graphic panel ... __________________ Zing a ling... zing a ling a ling ... A8N-E - A64x2 4600, 2048 Mb Kingston ram 400mhz cas 2.5 ( 2 x 1024 DualChannel ), Seagate 320 Gig 7200 16Mb cache S-ata 2, GeForce 7900GT 512MB, Enermax 460watt power supply, WindowsXP SP2.

Sep 5, 2005, 04:00 PM	#2
[em]HEAT DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	What drivers are you using? I know that the 77.72's waashed out the video overlay's, I was experienceing that as well. After updating the drivers the problem went away. Just grab the 77.77's from the Nvidia site and the problem will go away.