brighten things up

**HorseArcher** · May 11, 2006, 01:24 PM

This is going to sound very noobish,

but I can't make my videos (like game trailers, preview videos) brighter. I never had a problem with this with my old ATI card, but I tried everything with the nividia card, and I can't make the videos brighter without making my desktop brighter.

I tried brightening the overlay-only, but that doesn't do anything. My desktop looks bright as it is, and yet my videos are almost pitch-black.

I find the nvidia card controls, mediocre at best, the card is fast but the card control interface is in a dire need of updating.

anyone?

**HorseArcher** · May 12, 2006, 09:55 PM

wow, 24 views and no replies?

**Incinerate_IV** · May 12, 2006, 11:19 PM

Well I'm going to recieve my new 7900GT soon, to replace my X1600 Pro, so I'll see how the video is on my computer.

**Garbarsardar** · May 13, 2006, 08:18 AM

I'm glad you mentionned this because I thought I was paranoid. I replaced my XT800 128 with a 7800GTX 256 and I see much more of the dark-green areas during shots in dark environment in movies or night shots. Although I updated with the latest drivers I think that catalyst drivers were better for video.

**HorseArcher** · May 16, 2006, 12:33 PM

aaaarugghgh! Looks like me and Garb are the only ones who own Nvidia cards here?

I'm gonna go to a different forum and ask around some high tech geeks and see what they say....

**God** · May 16, 2006, 12:36 PM

I have a Nvidia card but I'm getting no problems.

And don't double post Archer. You should know better...tut tut

**Spiff** · May 16, 2006, 01:42 PM

Try having a video playing in media player as you adjust the sliders on overlay.. it works fine for me

**Incinerate_IV** · May 16, 2006, 02:57 PM

Well I got my new 7900GT and I don't see any problems with videos, it looks the same as before with my X1600Pro. I'm using winamp btw, I accidentally deleted Windows Media Player on my computer and never got the time to reinstall it back. :wink:

**Drunken** · May 16, 2006, 04:07 PM

You can try asking here if you havnt already asked somewhere. I find they know pretty much everything.

**fallingstar** · May 16, 2006, 04:37 PM

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 is on my pc, but no problems for the moment, seems okay, well did have a problem with my new monitor in adjusting the brightness and colours, contrast, but it seems okay now, well possibly because i used to it now.

**HorseArcher** · May 16, 2006, 05:38 PM

Well, not talking about adjusting the brightness on my monitor. It's like, my desktop is nice and bright (almost too bright), but all the videos I play is just too dark.
There is the control interface of Nvidia, that allows me to adjust the brightness of my desktop and other 3D stuff controls, but I can't get the videos to be brighter but have the desktop stay the same brightness.

thnx for the replies anyway.

edit: Nevermind guys, I found it. Appearantly some of my nvidia controls were not working right. I uninstalled and reinstalled the latest driver and now i got my layer controls back. Whew! I thought I was blind or something, but no, the driver was corrupted somehow.

**Incinerate_IV** · May 16, 2006, 06:52 PM

By the way, your old card was a ATI right? I just switched too, and I found that even after using Driver Cleaner and Cab Cleaner, all of ATI's drivers were still not removed, and it is causing problems in games. This is what I did to fix it.

Do a search on files with letter "ati", and delete all the files beginning with the letter "ati" EXCEPT the ones under the "ServicePackFiles" or "Lastgood" directories. After I did that all the glitches I've been having with games seemed to have dissappeared.