Colour problem

[Simon Preston]

So I have an NVidia Geforce 8800 GTS with latest drivers, Windows 7 Pro a 17" IIyama TFT monitor that is some 6 years old but performs very well.
What I've noticed lately is that the colour seems too bright. It's especially noticeable on things like skin tones where it seems plastic, shiny and false. Or bright parts just look like one big blob of white. Nvidia settings are on default.
Tried playing with the settings in Windows and on the monitor with no joy so just throwing this out here for any other ideas?

[mnbvcxz]

Re: Colour problem

What resolution are you running? Try 1280x1024. Is Windows set to Clear Type fonts?

Then simply run Calibrate color (Personalize > Display > Calibrate color)

Should look fine after that.

[Simon Preston]

Re: Colour problem

Already done all that and it does look marginally better. However it does seem as if the graphics card is rendering the colours wrongly. It's set to 32bit but the colour makes it look as if its less. These seems to have happened since I installed the latest NVidia drivers. Wonder if they'd made a cock up somewhere.

[kassios]

Re: Colour problem

^^ I've got the same card.....try and uninstall the drivers and install the cd drivers that came with the card.

[Simon Preston]

Re: Colour problem

Certainly not going to be installing those drivers. Had the card since 2007 and tbh, I don't think I even installed the CD drivers then. Pretty sure Foxconn just use the standard reference drivers from NVidia anyway.
Might try and install the WHQL 192 drivers from last year though and see if that makes any difference.

[ganjamo]

Re: Colour problem

You should try it with another monitor to see if the problem is on the videocard or on the display.

Usually videocards start to die that way, showing weird colours, little dots and other stuff. Hope thats not the problem...

good luck

[Simon Preston]

Re: Colour problem

Tried another display. Same thing. It's certainly not odd colouring, dots and things appearing. The card performs fine but as I say, it's as if the card is displaying in 16bit even though it's set to 32bit. It's the amount of colours available that seems to be a problem. It's not a major issue, desktop is fine, playing games is fine. Just images and video seem slightly unnatural.

[kassios]

Re: Colour problem

It's a driver issue with Windows 7 most probaply, my friend had the same problem with the exact same card . Try driversweeper to remove all files registry entries left by the drivers in windows and reinstall then you should be fine...i would also remove the card clean the pci slot from dust.
Good luck mate

[Simon Preston]

Re: Colour problem

Cheers. I'm probably going to completely install Windows 7 as I've had a quite a few hardware changes lately and differences in the way I handle folders and the like, plus a nice clean out never hurt anybody.
Also, I installed Windows 7 Pro to my laptop (both are 64 bit editions) and it also has the same sort of issue with regards to skin tones not looking natural enough. It has a GeForce 8600 GS GPU in it with latest drivers.

Something to do with NVidia and Windows 7 64 perhaps?

[kassios]

Re: Colour problem

^^ I think Nvidia should solve this problem ! Before you go and install Win7 over again.,,,check this link i came across with just browsing around i think it might be helpful http://www.sicanstudios.com/pages/bl...blem-resolved/