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driver problems?
Running a 6800 with the latest stable drivers. Video playback is very dark
after a little while. Reboots clear the problem for a little bit then the screen darkens again on any video playbacks. Is this a common driver problem or is my card going tits-up? |
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goPostal wrote:
Running a 6800 with the latest stable drivers. Video playback is very dark after a little while. Reboots clear the problem for a little bit then the screen darkens again on any video playbacks. Is this a common driver problem or is my card going tits-up? I'm not familiar with your card's tits, but they seem fine. Have you tried calibrating your display? How about tweaking your video codecs? What manner of connection do you use, analog? digital? Generally, variations in gamma are software troubles, easily fixed, not indicative of faulty hardware. So that's a bit of good news, the bad news is the stumbling upon the solution process takes too much trial and error. Cheers! Lastly, and this is directed at your, um, friend. Certain rips of content protected material, and pr0n, have fluctuating levels due to copy restriction techniques, just a thought. |
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"Mr.E Solved!" wrote in message . .. goPostal wrote: Running a 6800 with the latest stable drivers. Video playback is very dark after a little while. Reboots clear the problem for a little bit then the screen darkens again on any video playbacks. Is this a common driver problem or is my card going tits-up? I'm not familiar with your card's tits, but they seem fine. Have you tried calibrating your display? How about tweaking your video codecs? What manner of connection do you use, analog? digital? Generally, variations in gamma are software troubles, easily fixed, not indicative of faulty hardware. So that's a bit of good news, the bad news is the stumbling upon the solution process takes too much trial and error. Cheers! Lastly, and this is directed at your, um, friend. Certain rips of content protected material, and pr0n, have fluctuating levels due to copy restriction techniques, just a thought. Heh, I understand. This is more a systemic thing. The poor playback is across several different players (on the same box though). That made me think codec so I cleaned my codecs out and reinstalled everything. I reset the defaults in all my gamma/display settings in the NV control panel. Still haven't fixed it. I DL'ed the new beta driver from NVidia and my next step is to update them. I was more concerned that there was a known problem with the newer drivers. I found a couple of vague forum references to gamma problems on the last couple released so I thought it might be a common post here. I appreciate the response too! |
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If the image gradually darkens, that means the card has a fault in it. A
software/driver problem would not cause that. -- DaveW ---------------- "goPostal" wrote in message ... Running a 6800 with the latest stable drivers. Video playback is very dark after a little while. Reboots clear the problem for a little bit then the screen darkens again on any video playbacks. Is this a common driver problem or is my card going tits-up? |
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goPostal wrote:
Heh, I understand. This is more a systemic thing. The poor playback is across several different players (on the same box though). That made me think codec so I cleaned my codecs out and reinstalled everything. I reset the defaults in all my gamma/display settings in the NV control panel. Still haven't fixed it. I DL'ed the new beta driver from NVidia and my next step is to update them. I was more concerned that there was a known problem with the newer drivers. I found a couple of vague forum references to gamma problems on the last couple released so I thought it might be a common post here. I appreciate the response too! Have you tried and 3rd party codec suites? Like the K-Lite video suites? they are pretty excellent all around, and not wanting to just be all blah-blah-blah, fix it yourself, I went ahead and went to the site: http://www.k-litemegacodecpack.com/ Where I found this paragraph of topical interest: nVidia drivers Thursday - September 28 (2006) We have seen several reports and questions all over the Internet from people that are having display problems. Symptoms include very dark video playback. This problem is not caused by codecs. It is caused by bad nVidia drivers, which configure themselves incorrectly. If you are experiencing such issues, here are some tips to solve your problems: * Go to your graphics card control panel. Reset all settings to their default values. Important settings are Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Gamma. You can access the control panel via: Start Settings Control Panel Display Settings Advanced. * Go to your graphics card control panel. Select the "Color Correction" page. Select "All" in the dropdown box called "Apply color changes to:". Then click on the button called "Restore Defaults". * Go to your graphics card control panel. Open the "video and television" options. (You need to be in the advanced view). Select "adjust video colour settings", then select "correction". Hit "do not use colour temperature correction". * If resetting the settings does not help, then find an older version of the drivers (for example v84.21). Uninstall your current drivers, reboot, and install the older ones. If you have got additional or more specific solutions, please post them at the forum. Your intuition was right, it's the forceware drivers, not the codecs. I have had first hand experience with buggy gamma in forceware drivers, but only in OpenGL applications. Sometimes when the app terminates, the gamma boost that the app was using, is carried over to the desktop. Icky, only resolved by a reset. HTH! |
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"Mr.E Solved!" wrote in message ... goPostal wrote: Heh, I understand. This is more a systemic thing. The poor playback is across several different players (on the same box though). That made me think codec so I cleaned my codecs out and reinstalled everything. I reset the defaults in all my gamma/display settings in the NV control panel. Still haven't fixed it. I DL'ed the new beta driver from NVidia and my next step is to update them. I was more concerned that there was a known problem with the newer drivers. I found a couple of vague forum references to gamma problems on the last couple released so I thought it might be a common post here. I appreciate the response too! Have you tried and 3rd party codec suites? Like the K-Lite video suites? they are pretty excellent all around, and not wanting to just be all blah-blah-blah, fix it yourself, I went ahead and went to the site: http://www.k-litemegacodecpack.com/ Where I found this paragraph of topical interest: nVidia drivers Thursday - September 28 (2006) We have seen several reports and questions all over the Internet from people that are having display problems. Symptoms include very dark video playback. This problem is not caused by codecs. It is caused by bad nVidia drivers, which configure themselves incorrectly. If you are experiencing such issues, here are some tips to solve your problems: * Go to your graphics card control panel. Reset all settings to their default values. Important settings are Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Gamma. You can access the control panel via: Start Settings Control Panel Display Settings Advanced. * Go to your graphics card control panel. Select the "Color Correction" page. Select "All" in the dropdown box called "Apply color changes to:". Then click on the button called "Restore Defaults". * Go to your graphics card control panel. Open the "video and television" options. (You need to be in the advanced view). Select "adjust video colour settings", then select "correction". Hit "do not use colour temperature correction". * If resetting the settings does not help, then find an older version of the drivers (for example v84.21). Uninstall your current drivers, reboot, and install the older ones. If you have got additional or more specific solutions, please post them at the forum. Your intuition was right, it's the forceware drivers, not the codecs. I have had first hand experience with buggy gamma in forceware drivers, but only in OpenGL applications. Sometimes when the app terminates, the gamma boost that the app was using, is carried over to the desktop. Icky, only resolved by a reset. HTH! That's actually where I found the first report of this when I went to update my codecs (great minds DO think alike I updated to the 93.81 betas and it seems to have fixed it fingers crossed Thanks for taking the time to look something up for a stranger. That's pretty cool. |
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goPostal wrote:
That's actually where I found the first report of this when I went to update my codecs (great minds DO think alike I updated to the 93.81 betas and it seems to have fixed it fingers crossed Thanks for taking the time to look something up for a stranger. That's pretty cool. I'm glad it's fixed, until it breaks again! I'm also glad you are happy and appreciative, just wait until my bill arrives. There's plenty of helpful people here, but it's very catch as catch can. Cheers! |
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