Colour banding.

Robert · 5 Mar 2006 at 15:13

I've noticed in games like World of Warcraft, I get a sort of "banding" affect in the sky, similar to in BF2. Is there anyway to eliminate this? I really shouldn't get it on my Eizo as everything else is superb - or is this just a given of having a TFT?

fish99 · 5 Mar 2006 at 15:48

Are you sure it's not just the game? A bit of compression used on the textures that make up the skybox or something like that. Have you seen the game without this problem on a CRT? Also are you running the game in 32-bit colour?

The Eizo is 24-bit true colour, 16.7 M colours, so there should be no colour banding. I doubt it's the screen.

Robert · 5 Mar 2006 at 15:50

Probably warcraft! I do have it set to 24bit in game..

My temp is set to 7000k and gain is 94% red/97% green/100% blue with brightness being 40% and gamma 2.2!

caff · 6 Mar 2006 at 13:48

Hi Robert

Looks ok on my Eizo - default factory settings and same brightness (40%) - I suspect its the graphics from some of the zones in WoW.

have a look through some of the gradients here:
http://images.google.co.uk/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=gradient&btnG=Search

or knock one up in photoshop - you still see it there?

fish99 · 6 Mar 2006 at 15:29

Some of those gradients have banding and compression on them