Very light grayish display after installing 1070?

[jaybee82]

Hi all,

I installed my 1070 a couple weeks ago, and have noticed the picture looking noticeably lighter than usual. At a glance it would be very hard to notice, but when Windows 10 starts up, there's this brief flicker between a sharp normal contrast, before reverting back to a distinctively lighter one.

On occasions, I've taken out the HDMI and plugged it back in and it seems to have reverted it back to normal, but something aint right and I'm not sure if it's the monitor or the GPU.

Any ideas?

 

[shankly1985]

Check you have the GPU out putting RGB Full Range in Nvidia Drivers

 

[jaybee82]

Check you have the GPU out putting RGB Full Range in Nvidia Drivers

Top man! All fixed thanks to you =)

 

[shankly1985]

Top man! All fixed thanks to you =)

No problem

 

[weyland yutani]

I noticed a similar lightish grey appearance on my display. Is this the right setting?

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I changed it from limited to full but haven't really noticed much difference.

 

[Aretak]

I noticed a similar lightish grey appearance on my display. Is this the right setting?

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I changed it from limited to full but haven't really noticed much difference.

That's the wrong setting. The one you want is under change resolution now for whatever reason (it used to be under adjust desktop colour settings, which seems more appropriate).

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I can't understand why Nvidia still set limited by default on all displays. There are probably a lot of people out there looking at washed out colours without knowing anything's amiss. AMD's driver seems fine at detecting when you need full range on a monitor. But then it took them years to allow you to officially change it at all. You needed a third party program to toggle it until a couple of years ago.

 

[weyland yutani]

For some reason, Desktop Colour Depth is the only option I see on my end, the three others are missing. Maybe its because of the old monitor I'm using or being connected via dvi cable?

 

[shankly1985]

That's the wrong setting. The one you want is under change resolution now for whatever reason (it used to be under adjust desktop colour settings, which seems more appropriate).

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I can't understand why Nvidia still set limited by default on all displays. There are probably a lot of people out there looking at washed out colours without knowing anything's amiss. AMD's driver seems fine at detecting when you need full range on a monitor. But then it took them years to allow you to officially change it at all. You needed a third party program to toggle it until a couple of years ago.

That was the other way around AMD has always had the option when it detect a HDMI display, under DisplayPort default is Full range.

It was only in last year or two nvidia give people the option to change this setting.

Here is PC gamer reporting the issue before Nvidia released a driver
http://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-cards-dont-full-rgb-color-through-hdmiheres-a-fix/

 

[Aretak]

That was the other way around AMD has always had the option when it detect a HDMI display, under DisplayPort default is Full range.

It was only in last year or two nvidia give people the option to change this setting.

Here is PC gamer reporting the issue before Nvidia released a driver
http://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-cards-dont-full-rgb-color-through-hdmiheres-a-fix/

Yeah, that's what I meant. May have worded it badly. AMD cards have allowed you to switch for as long as I've been using them.

 

[shankly1985]

Yeah, that's what I meant. May have worded it badly. AMD cards have allowed you to switch for as long as I've been using them.

I did think you miss worded