Have TN gaming panel for years - VG248QE

>Have TN gaming panel for years - VG248QE
>colors watched out when watching movies, blacks are not black
>figure this must just be the shitty TN
>buy IPS
>colors still washed out
>figure I need a plasma or OLED
>2 years later
>nvidia control panel, Advanced, Dynamic Range : limited colors were turned on this whole time
Adjusting to Full Color fixed both displays. Did I just waste $250 on an IPS?

>he fell for the IPS meme

amoled was the first time I saw black as truly black

Omg I'm going to try this right now!!!

>using HDMI

you fucking deserve it

I use DVI-D

I can't imagine buying a laptop without IPS. Don't know about the desktop.

the colors are basically the same if you do the dynamic range fix. It should be this by default. I cant believe I went this long without changing this.

>Did I just waste $250 on an IPS?
No. IPS is a much better display type than TN and has a greater color depth than any TN panel on the market.

Assuming you didn't buy a 6-bit e-IPS display anyways.

Where is "Advanced" brahs?

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>nvidia control panel, Advanced, Dynamic Range

I can't find any advanced tab in my control panel

oh, maybe I dont have those options cause im on a laptop???

KEK mine was turned off too

I don't really see any difference after turning it on though, what difference should I see?

I just changed to full, literally no change whatsoever

open video files in VLC to see the difference

you have to set it on full range too, turning it on and leaving it on limited range will make 0 difference

>VLC

No I did set it to full range obiously

Maybe I should do a restart.

I didn't have any complaints about washed out colors before though

>not using superior Sup Forums approved software

maybe your monitor isnt calibrated well to begin with.

>VLC
>superior

These do not fit in a sentence. VLC sucks.

vlc for video, foobar2000 for audio

Or maybe it was already well calibrated

Nvidia is inferior color-wise for HDMI

this isn't news

DELETE

THIS

RIGHT

NOW

>not using MPC-HC or MPV for videos

this, even better than my crt

>display small non-rectangular image on my phone in a pitch black room
>literally only the image visible, looks eerie, no backlight bleed, no edge glow, no way to tell where the bounds of the display are

>ITT: retards on technology board who think mpv>vlc while having their color range cut by nvidia® experience™ on Microsoft Windows®™©
good job guys, you are worse than audiophiles.

why does the driver default to limited colors again?

because someone smart at nvidia thought that people use hdmi mainly to connect TVs not PC monitors goym. But its ok if you use Linux , those nerds dont own TVs.

Again, I use DVI-D to connect. I have a vg248qe - it only does 144hz over DVI-D or DP

then why the limited colors. are you lying on the internet?

heh, I did a similar thing

> Build new gaming PC (pic related) with Sapphire R9 290X 4GB Tri-X in early 2015
> After a few months, the screen goes dead
> Screen controls still work, removing DVI from pc and changing slots does nothing. Rebooting does nothing. Think it's broken, try to ignore it and hope it works later
> Turn it on intermittently until eventually it's off for two months
> Turn back on - shit works (???)
> Year later, does it again
> Get angry and go buy a new video card, blowing $200
> Get back home, swap video cards out
> STILL DOES NOT WORK
> New video card also has VGA port
> Plug VGA port into monitor instead of DVI
> It works
> Put back DVI
> No work
> Unplug monitor and plug it back in
> Works

I bought a new video card because my monitor's HDMI is fucky.

Why did you buy such an expensive case for a 290x?

>not buying an mva panel with 5000;1 static contrast

Not that ips is bad though. But if you truly care about contrast (blacks) you buy (am)oled or (a)mva.

I typically stick with a case until it literally falls apart (old case was over 10 years old), so I wanted to buy a big one with lots of room and hotswap drives and good cable management, looks are a plus (mine is black, not white) as is the handle It fits the bill, and I expect to be using it still in 2030 or so.

>using an HDMI cable in current year

That's for TV's user.

>incapable of reading the thread in current year
OP's not using HDMI.

Then it wouldn't be limited RGB

Well it apparently was.