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Vista vs Ati Radeon
Hi...
I'm new to the groups so forgive me if I posted this in the wrong area. I've been running Vista Premium for about 5 months now. It's not a bad OS, and I have gotten used to some of it's quirkiness. Anyway, here's my issue. I've got an Intel 875PBZ motherboard with 2 gigs of ram and a ATI Radeon X1600 Pro AGP. I've tried the latest drivers, the original drivers, and probably every one in between. The problem is that the images/desktop ect... have too high of a gamma setting, that is, the images are too bright/faded instead of being nice and vivid. I had the same issues when I was still using my ATI Radeon 9600XT AGP. I can correct this using the color correction thingie, but ti seems to drift off to this washed out look. I noticed it esp when I got through running Half Life2 or Counterstrike, but now it seems to just be a constant thing. I even went as far as to completely re-install Vista, but it seemed to be the same thing. I doubt it's the monitor (19 inch LCD). Just curious if anyone has any input on this. Thanks in advance |
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Vista vs Ate Radeon
Your monitor has a brightness control,
Try cutting it down to 70% and see what it does. "Apache -=CW=-" wrote in message ... Hi... I'm new to the groups so forgive me if I posted this in the wrong area. I've been running Vista Premium for about 5 months now. It's not a bad OS, and I have gotten used to some of it's quirkiness. Anyway, here's my issue. I've got an Intel 875PBZ motherboard with 2 gigs of ram and a ATI Radeon X1600 Pro AGP. I've tried the latest drivers, the original drivers, and probably every one in between. The problem is that the images/desktop ect... have too high of a gamma setting, that is, the images are too bright/faded instead of being nice and vivid. I had the same issues when I was still using my ATI Radeon 9600XT AGP. I can correct this using the color correction thingie, but ti seems to drift off to this washed out look. I noticed it esp when I got through running Half Life2 or Counterstrike, but now it seems to just be a constant thing. I even went as far as to completely re-install Vista, but it seemed to be the same thing. I doubt it's the monitor (19 inch LCD). Just curious if anyone has any input on this. Thanks in advance |
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"Apache -=CW=-" wrote in message
... Hi... I'm new to the groups so forgive me if I posted this in the wrong area. I've been running Vista Premium for about 5 months now. It's not a bad OS, and I have gotten used to some of it's quirkiness. Anyway, here's my issue. I've got an Intel 875PBZ motherboard with 2 gigs of ram and a ATI Radeon X1600 Pro AGP. I've tried the latest drivers, the original drivers, and probably every one in between. The problem is that the images/desktop ect... have too high of a gamma setting, that is, the images are too bright/faded instead of being nice and vivid. I had the same issues when I was still using my ATI Radeon 9600XT AGP. I can correct this using the color correction thingie, but ti seems to drift off to this washed out look. I noticed it esp when I got through running Half Life2 or Counterstrike, but now it seems to just be a constant thing. I even went as far as to completely re-install Vista, but it seemed to be the same thing. I doubt it's the monitor (19 inch LCD). I find most monitors to be set far too bright out of the box. I think most are calibrated for bright offices rather than homes. However saying that I also recall there being a bug in the Radeon drivers, over a year ago, which did increase the gamma too high, unless the Catalyst Control Panel was installed and its background services were running. This was fixed ages ago, so I can't imagine its that. -- Paul Smith, Yeovil, UK. Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience. http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/ http://www.windowsresource.net/ *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail* |
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Vista vs Ati Radeon
It is not your monitor.
When you make an adjustment in the ATI control panel to gamma, brightness, whatever adjustments you like, you are creating a monitor profile. High end computer games like Half life or Counterstrike, unload the monitor profile when you play them. When you exit the game and go back to the Vista desktop it is as if you never made any adjustments. This happens in XP too with 3d games. However Vista does not hold onto monitor profiles as stably as XP under many circumstances. The monitor profile can be unloaded in Vista by many events, including all those pointless warning screens that come on if you have not turned off the user account controls. |
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Vista vs Ati Radeon
Thank you for the input. My monitor doesn't have a brightness control. But I
have tried the monitor profiles and that seems to be the solution. I have also noticed that my second PC that has a 9600XT does the same thing, so it appears to be an ATI thing. That PC is running XP-Pro, so it's not a Vista issue. "Apache -=CW=-" wrote in message ... Hi... I'm new to the groups so forgive me if I posted this in the wrong area. I've been running Vista Premium for about 5 months now. It's not a bad OS, and I have gotten used to some of it's quirkiness. Anyway, here's my issue. I've got an Intel 875PBZ motherboard with 2 gigs of ram and a ATI Radeon X1600 Pro AGP. I've tried the latest drivers, the original drivers, and probably every one in between. The problem is that the images/desktop ect... have too high of a gamma setting, that is, the images are too bright/faded instead of being nice and vivid. I had the same issues when I was still using my ATI Radeon 9600XT AGP. I can correct this using the color correction thingie, but ti seems to drift off to this washed out look. I noticed it esp when I got through running Half Life2 or Counterstrike, but now it seems to just be a constant thing. I even went as far as to completely re-install Vista, but it seemed to be the same thing. I doubt it's the monitor (19 inch LCD). Just curious if anyone has any input on this. Thanks in advance |