Guild Wars 2

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/523992/tip-for-nvidia-users-using-hdmi-and-getting-accurate-color-format/

Just thought I’d share because it makes GW2 and BL2 (only games I’ve tried with so far) look so much better not to mention desktop, Internet browsing and software. I always played around with my TV settings because of the washed out chewing gum white look I had which was mostly noticeable on web pages, turns out it was the above that was the issue

When I launch BL2 after applying this the intro videos are still the original colour format and it looks so washed out by comparison until the game loads. This also happens with GW2 for a couple of seconds on load screens, I see the original washed out look then this kicks in

Hope it helps.

Thanks for the tip, Paul! I’m sure others will benefit from this.

another solution: buy AMD?

Can you show us maybe please some comparison pictures as attachments, which show us the clear difference between pre change and after change of this here???

That would be very nice, so that people can get a better impression on how much of an “improvement” this is and if its worth it to hack the nvidia driver registry for this just to force the driver to enable FULL RNG for better/more colors. (which could end up also in being too bright in the case of whites ^^)

Using HDMI for gaming is… pointless. Yes, colors are borked and not even close to the bandwidth of dp/DVI so it cant handle 60hz+ at higher resolutions.

Orpheal.8263:

Can you show us maybe please some comparison pictures as attachments, which show us the clear difference between pre change and after change of this here???

That would be very nice, so that people can get a better impression on how much of an “improvement” this is and if its worth it to hack the nvidia driver registry for this just to force the driver to enable FULL RNG for better/more colors. (which could end up also in being too bright in the case of whites ^^)

I took screenshots but they look the same in Photoshop. The tool has a button to revert to the original colour scheme if you don’t like it, probably should have mentioned that.

Paul.4081:

Orpheal.8263:

Can you show us maybe please some comparison pictures as attachments, which show us the clear difference between pre change and after change of this here???

That would be very nice, so that people can get a better impression on how much of an “improvement” this is and if its worth it to hack the nvidia driver registry for this just to force the driver to enable FULL RNG for better/more colors. (which could end up also in being too bright in the case of whites ^^)

I took screenshots but they look the same in Photoshop. The tool has a button to revert to the original colour scheme if you don’t like it, probably should have mentioned that.

They will look the same because these changes do not affect the internal colourspace but rather how the drivers render it when outputting directly to your TV.

Dawdler.8521:

Using HDMI for gaming is… pointless. Yes, colors are borked and not even close to the bandwidth of dp/DVI so it cant handle 60hz+ at higher resolutions.

Interesting that a reg fix can suddenly increase the bandwidth and restore those colours then.

Also makes me wonder why blueray HD TVs don’t use DVI instead of this crappy hdmi standard that borks colours.

Sandpit.3467:

Dawdler.8521:

Using HDMI for gaming is… pointless. Yes, colors are borked and not even close to the bandwidth of dp/DVI so it cant handle 60hz+ at higher resolutions.

Interesting that a reg fix can suddenly increase the bandwidth and restore those colours then.

Also makes me wonder why blueray HD TVs don’t use DVI instead of this crappy hdmi standard that borks colours.

Why? Because HDMI is sound and video. Its easier. But video only give much higher bandwidth and full range rgb.

Tweaking the colors/gamma is a workaround, not a fix. And it can only help the rgb range. You cannot fix the bandwidth. No regfix will make 4K/144hz possible with HDMI, for example.

Dawdler.8521:

Sandpit.3467:

Dawdler.8521:

Using HDMI for gaming is… pointless. Yes, colors are borked and not even close to the bandwidth of dp/DVI so it cant handle 60hz+ at higher resolutions.

Interesting that a reg fix can suddenly increase the bandwidth and restore those colours then.

Also makes me wonder why blueray HD TVs don’t use DVI instead of this crappy hdmi standard that borks colours.

Why? Because HDMI is sound and video. Its easier. But video only give much higher bandwidth and full range rgb.

Tweaking the colors/gamma is a workaround, not a fix. And it can only help the rgb range. You cannot fix the bandwidth. No regfix will make 4K/144hz possible with HDMI, for example.

All sounds great and all but, aren’t most video games sRGB? Which is the same as Bluray and HDTV’s REC 709? My displays are all calibrated for REC 709 and the game looks great.

So much info here, think I’ll need to do a course in this stuff to understand.

I just posted because like I said, I always felt my telly colour scheme was off (I’m not using 4k just a 1920×1080) and kept tinkering with my tv settings. I’d all but given up and stumbled upon this by accident looking for something else. For me it was night and day and workaround it may be but I’ll take it.

I went back to the original colours when I tried to take screenies. No going back for me, it looked like power saving mode on a desktop pc.

Dawdler.8521:

Why? Because HDMI is sound and video. Its easier. But video only give much higher bandwidth and full range rgb.

Tweaking the colors/gamma is a workaround, not a fix. And it can only help the rgb range. You cannot fix the bandwidth. No regfix will make 4K/144hz possible with HDMI, for example.

What are you smoking? On minute we are saying " it cant handle 60hz+ at higher resolution" now you are talking 4K/144hz, nobody is doing that, nobody has a graphics card that can handle that and nobody has a monitor that can handle that. Climb back to the real world and your statement “Using HDMI for gaming is… pointless” is just stupid beyond compare.

“Yes, colors are borked and not even close to the bandwidth of dp/DVI "

Oh really?

DVI single is essentially electronically identical to HDMI Type-A connection, typically hitting 1920×1200 and dual DVI equivalent to HDMI Type-B hitting 3840×2160 though often not at great refresh rates (30hz on HDMI, you milage will vary with hardware on dual DVI). And that is for HDMI 1.4, we now have HDMI 2.0 available capable of pushing 4k at 60hz. Display ports will typically hit 3840×2160@60hz.

I can’t even take your comment about audio seriously if you think audio bandwidth even registers on the same scale let alone uses the same flipping wires! Maybe it’s because DVI uses a bigger plug?

There is no reason why you shouldn’t use HDMI for gaming, ultimately it is going to depend on what specific hardware you have available to you and not on some armchair theoretical number crunching.

It’s not sa if we can see anything anyway with all the stupid skill effects blinding us that ANet won’t let us turn down.