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**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

Phixsator said:
Ive noticed lately whenever i watch recorded footage from different youtubers that any footage captured from an AMD gpu look a lot less washed out compared to footage capture from a system with a nvidia gpu.. Anyone here knows what that is about? Because im getting the same results on my own system and stock driver installs on my 1070.
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Have you switched from limited range to full range RGB in the control panel? That's typically the cause of washed-out colours on Nvidia cards, since they still default to limited range no matter what for some stupid reason.

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Until a couple of years ago you needed a third party tool to even change it at all, so at least having an option is an improvement I suppose.
 
Aretak said:
Have you switched from limited range to full range RGB in the control panel? That's typically the cause of washed-out colours on Nvidia cards, since they still default to limited range no matter what for some stupid reason.

rangesnzkh.png


Until a couple of years ago you needed a third party tool to even change it at all, so at least having an option is an improvement I suppose.
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I shall have a look at this when I get home, I noticed a difference immediately after changing to NVidia, once the driver was installed it looked as though the contrast or brightness has been adjusted wrongly.

As for microstutter, its a term I've heard many times, but what exactly is it?
 
Greebo said:
From memory for years now AMD have always looked more "colourful" than Nvidia cards.
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In my recent experience, going from a 7950 to a 1070, both cards looked identical on the desktop until I installed the NVidia drivers (so amd card, latest drivers, NVidia card, using the standard windows driver) so it must just a software setting rather than hardware.
 
Just installed on my 1080. Now lowest the clock will go to under 'extended' mode is 1341.5Mhz. Previously it would idle at 253Mhz, the same as on a single screen.

Anyone else seeing this issue?
 
Jamesyboyjim said:
In my recent experience, going from a 7950 to a 1070, both cards looked identical on the desktop until I installed the NVidia drivers (so amd card, latest drivers, NVidia card, using the standard windows driver) so it must just a software setting rather than hardware.
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Wasnt implying it was hardware, jsut that the difference is always there between them.

I normally have to tweak everything with Nvidia cards to try and get them looking ike AMD cards.
 
Aretak said:
Have you switched from limited range to full range RGB in the control panel? That's typically the cause of washed-out colours on Nvidia cards, since they still default to limited range no matter what for some stupid reason.

rangesnzkh.png

Until a couple of years ago you needed a third party tool to even change it at all, so at least having an option is an improvement I suppose.
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Yes its already set to FULL. Ive also set the video colour setting to use FULL Dynamic range so that should not be the issue.

PS: The newest 375.57 driver seems a lot smoother now in overwatch(never had an issue with OW though) but smoothness has increased. Hopefully this carries over to other games as well. I really hope i can stop changing drivers cause im getting tired of it.
 
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Aretak said:
Have you switched from limited range to full range RGB in the control panel? That's typically the cause of washed-out colours on Nvidia cards, since they still default to limited range no matter what for some stupid reason.

rangesnzkh.png


Until a couple of years ago you needed a third party tool to even change it at all, so at least having an option is an improvement I suppose.
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Doing this has sorted it for me, the display now looks the same as with my 7950 thanks! :)
 
opethdisciple said:
I've noticed in the screen shots above that the refresh rate defaults to 59 on a 60hz monitor.

Is this bug or a feature? I always manually change it to 60.
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It's just due to the way Windows works as it detects the refresh rate as 59.99 or something similar and just displays 59 and leaves the rest out, it is not a bug and is still running at 60Hz.

When I changed it manually to 60Hz myself it would change back to 59 when I checked it again (using Windows display adapter properties rather than Nvidia control panel). However, it's not an issue and is nothing to worry about.

This is what I was told when I asked the same question and if you run Linux and look in the Nvidia settings it will show the full refresh rate of 59.99etc Hz which backs this up.
 
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Aretak said:
Have you switched from limited range to full range RGB in the control panel? That's typically the cause of washed-out colours on Nvidia cards, since they still default to limited range no matter what for some stupid reason.

rangesnzkh.png


Until a couple of years ago you needed a third party tool to even change it at all, so at least having an option is an improvement I suppose.
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Hmm, I dont see that option on my Nvidia control panel?
 
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