bmueller Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 All of my DVDs are playing with the contrast really high and brightness super low. Except, the settings are all set to normal. I can try to compensate in Win DVD 4 by reducing contrast and increasing brightness manually, but it still looks ugly. The same effect is found regardless of the DVD program (real player, wmp, interactual, etc.). What's wrong? Is my drive broken, is it drivers, or something else entirely? How can I fix it? Please help! :confused: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinobi Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 Pointing out the obvious but does your monitor have Brightness & Contrast Controls? You haven't got them set wrong have you? Or are you saying its just Dvd's and nothing else? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 Is it an nvidia card? I had some similar problem after I upgraded to a newer driver. What I did to fix it was go into the nvidia control panel and change all the video crap to default and then it was good. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmueller Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 It's only the DVD picture that is messed up. My desktop and all other applications appear fine. And it isn't a problem with the monitor, I've tried others and I get the same thing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmueller Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 Ahh, fixed it . Â Sorry to scare you guys Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
seamuso Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 what was it? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinobi Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 Yeah, don't keep us hangin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PC1X1 Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 O_o Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmueller Posted July 30, 2005 Posted July 30, 2005 Actually, I don't know lol. But I messed with my Nvidia drivers for a long time. Finally it just worked when I uninstalled everything and reinstalled the latest drivers from nvidia's site a second time. I really thought it was a problem with DVD codecs or my dvd drive, but fortunately, it wasn't the drive. I must've had some remnant settings from non-nvidia drivers messing stuff up. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted July 31, 2005 Posted July 31, 2005 It had to be in the video chain since the DVD can only deliver a digital signal to the codecs. If it was that far off coming from the drive it wouldn't have loaded anything to the media player. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Posted August 1, 2005 Posted August 1, 2005 Actually, I don't know lol. But I messed with my Nvidia drivers for a long time. Finally it just worked when I uninstalled everything and reinstalled the latest drivers from nvidia's site a second time. I really thought it was a problem with DVD codecs or my dvd drive, but fortunately, it wasn't the drive. I must've had some remnant settings from non-nvidia drivers messing stuff up. I told you . Stuff like that happened to me but I just had to fix the video settings in the nvidia controlpanel to default. It had messed up when I updated drivers so they the settings must have stayed and conflicted with the new drivers. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted August 1, 2005 Posted August 1, 2005 Your ICM profile was messed-up. When you completely uninstalled everything, then reinstalled, the profile was replaced. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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