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More Problems with Gaming PC
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19-07-2012 5:16pm#1Sorry, that should have been paragraph.
NOTE : Skip to the last paragraph where the stars are if you don't want the full story.
Recently I got a new PC and, after overcoming many issues with it, I finally got it working. ( thanks to the helpful people of this forum
)
However, I've always had a slight problem with my monitor since day one.
Basically, it's too bright. Now I know you're going to think, " well turn down the brightness then idiot " but it never works. I've also been fiddling with the gamma and that didn't help either. I've tried fixing it using settings on the monitor itself, I've tried fixing it through CCC ( Catalyst Control Center ), and I've tried updating my drivers and all that jazz.
Now, the strange thing is only things that are supposed to be dark / black or otherwise not white
are affected by this. Two easy examples would be the videogame Amnesia, and my desktop wallpaper.
In regards to Amnesia, for those of you who have played it, you know when you have no light source in that game and it's pitch black? Well I don't get that. I just get this weird dim grayish / whitish colour / glow.
Pretty much the exact same thing for my desktop. It's supposed to be dark, pitch black, supposed to be.
I'm currently using the Movie mode on my monitor with a DynamicContrast of 2, as every other option is too bright / weird looking, but again, saying this is the best option ain't saying much at all.
My monitor's a BenQ G2255 and my graphics card is a Club 3d Radeon HD 7850 royalQueen.
** Now, on to the point at hand. While researching this problem myself, I was recommended to switch the colour mode from RGB to YCbCr444 as it would make the dark colours look better. I also found that in CCC this could be found in the category " My Digital Flat - Panels ~" and then under the category " Pixel Format " as seen here .
However, the category " Pixel format " is nowhere to be found in my AMD CCC and I could find nobody on the internet with a similar problem, so help?
Thanks for taking the time to read this.0
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i am an onion wrote: »Hi,
NOTE : Skip to the last line if you don't want the full story.
Recently I got a new PC and, after overcoming many issues with it, I finally got it working. ( thanks to the helpful people of this forum )
However, I've always had a slight problem with my monitor since day one.
Basically, it's too bright. Now I know you're going to think, " well turn down the brightness then idiot " but it never works. I've also been fiddling with the gamma and that didn't help either. I've tried fixing it using settings on the monitor itself, I've tried fixing it through CCC ( Catalyst Control Center ), and I've tried updating my drivers and all that jazz.
Now, the strange thing is only things that are supposed to be dark / black or otherwise not white are affected by this. Two easy examples would be the videogame Amnesia, and my desktop wallpaper.
In regards to Amnesia, for those of you who have played it, you know when you have no light source in that game and it's pitch black? Well I don't get that. I just get this weird dim grayish / whitish colour / glow.
Pretty much the exact same thing for my desktop. It's supposed to be dark, pitch black, supposed to be.
I'm currently using the Movie mode on my monitor with a DynamicContrast of 2, as every other option is too bright / weird looking, but again, saying this is the best option ain't saying much at all.
My monitor's a BenQ G2255 and my graphics card is a Club 3d Radeon HD 7850 royalQueen.
** Now, on to the point at hand. While researching this problem myself, I was recommended to switch the colour mode from RGB to YCbCr444 as it would make the dark colours look better. I also found that in CCC this could be found in the category " My Digital Flat - Panels ~" and then under the category " Pixel Format " as seen here .
However, the category " Pixel format " is nowhere to be found in my AMD CCC and I could find nobody on the internet with a similar problem, so help?
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
"Thanks for taking the time to read this." - what the hell....I'm confused??0 -
splashthecash wrote: »"Thanks for taking the time to read this." - what the hell....I'm confused??
Sorry that should have been paragraph, not line.
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Well, when running Fallout New Vegas I got ( these are all the values, as I don't know which are the important ones ) :
GPU Core Clock : 860.0 MHz
GPU Memory Clock : 1200.0 MHz
GPU Temperature : 48.0
Fan Speed : 20%
Fan Speed ( RPM ) : 1125 RPM
GPU Load : 82%
Memory Usage ( Dedicated ) : 775 MB
Memory Usage ( Dynamic ) : 65 MB
VDDC : 1.138 V
These are the highest results.
Edit : Something unrelated, but my Monitor always gets brighter when looking at a white background and darker when looking at a black or dim colored background. ( now I know that sounds obvious, but I mean it dims, kinda like power saving except I have all power saving turned off. ) Know how to stop this?0 -
i am an onion wrote: »Well, when running Fallout New Vegas I got ( these are all the values, as I don't know which are the important ones ) :
GPU Core Clock : 860.0 MHz
GPU Memory Clock : 1200.0 MHz
GPU Temperature : 48.0
Fan Speed : 20%
Fan Speed ( RPM ) : 1125 RPM
GPU Load : 82%
Memory Usage ( Dedicated ) : 775 MB
Memory Usage ( Dynamic ) : 65 MB
VDDC : 1.138 V
These are the highest results.
Edit : Something unrelated, but my Monitor always gets brighter when looking at a white background and darker when looking at a black or dim colored background. ( now I know that sounds obvious, but I mean it dims, kinda like power saving except I have all power saving turned off. ) Know how to stop this?
Regarding the rebooting/graphics corruption issue your problem may be power supply (PSU) related. These temperatures certainly look ok your reporting from your video card under load. Whats the power supply in the machine out of interest? Even a full spec rundown on whats in the machine even better?
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Hi.
This is my first post here, and sorry to bring up an old thread but after searching google for ages this forum was one of the only places I could find some one with a similar problem. I'm having similar problems to i am an onion (great name by the way).
It's the same monitor(BenQ G2255 21'5" LCD), but I worry that this isn't actually a fault with the monitor, and more how it is made, so I don't know if I'll be able to get a refund.Its the monitor itself, after googling the model a lot of people say that it is way too bright, nothing wrong with the computer. Try and get a refund.
Hey, sorry to be a bother, but could you or anybody give a link to somebody with similar problems? Not that I don't trust you or anything, it's just I've been looking for ages but couldn't find anyone on google with similar problems, and I'd very much like to compare my issues with others.
Anyway, thanks for reading, and I look forward to being a part of this cool forum! 0 -
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