Graphic Cards Digital vibrance :do u use it?

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All recent nvidia cards come with DV 3.0 and that in my opinion makes their 2d quality too good to resist.Though ATi traditionally had better 2d,comparing the 2d using dv set to low on my 5700 and then seeing the difference on a 9550 powered pc(that my friend has),the difference is night and day.

My question: Does Ati have a similar feature?Coz thats what makes me favour nvidia much much more.
 
Well I only use it while watching DVDs. On low it makes DVD content look really great.
Though this wasent the critaria behind choosing Nvidia card. it never will be even in future. If ATI performs better then I will get ATI in future.
But its personal choice. My sister hates it on her PC and so does my father. They both do not like DV enabled.
 
Well w/o DV it makes colors look washed out.Low is best,anything higher and over-saturation occurs.But in my books,this heavily tilts the odds in nv's favor,coz my work is 2D most of the time these days.
 
Dont have an nvidia card, but remembered your enthusiasm about digital vibrance somewhere else on the forums a while back, so when i got the chance i tried it out on a system with one and the colours did indeed look quite "energised".
Particularly the wallpaper which was a TV screenshot looked much better :)
 
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now that u reminded me about it, i'll move the slider a little to the right.. yep.. i like DV and I use it..
 
I keep at 5 notches up from 0, the difference is awesome.
But wouldn't consider it as a deciding factor when chosing my next card.
 
Rave said:
ok, a dud question
is there an option like that in Ati cards??
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Nopes not necessary. It was there cos nvidia 2D quality sucked before Geforce FX. Its still sucks compared to ATI if you are running 1600x1200+ resolutions(other than asus,bfg and gainward cards).
 
Well,Rave I seriously disagree.I have come across many forums where even 9800 pro owners wish that Ati would implement something like DV.Just google and u'll know what I mean.
Chaos,I said something to that effect myself
Though ATi traditionally had better 2d,comparing the 2d using dv set to low on my 5700 and then seeing the difference on a 9550 powered pc(that my friend has),the difference is night and day.
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Actually only some early gf3 cards had 2d issues@1600x1200 and asus was among them.
GF4 had good 2d,comparable with ati if not better.GF2 and lower sucked when it came to 2d vis-a-vis their radeon counterparts.
 
Yup , Undertaker is right....ALOt of guys on aLOt of forums who hav shifted from Nvidia to Ati... miss the DV sooo bad tht they keep performance next to it......nd keep askin if it will evr b implemented in ATI cards...
But yea Dv is cool...nd i missed it in my 9800pro...but its back now.....nd as the name suggest evrythng looks VIBRANT ..LOl
 
undertaker said:
Actually only some early gf3 cards had 2d issues@1600x1200 and asus was among them.
GF4 had good 2d,comparable with ati if not better.GF2 and lower sucked when it came to 2d vis-a-vis their radeon counterparts.
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I read a 6600gt shootout once where the xfx card blurred the image at 1600x1200.

Chaos said:
Nopes not necessary. It was there cos nvidia 2D quality sucked before Geforce FX.
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That's a lame excuse, it's not like dv is some hardware specific feature, all it does is increase the color saturation via drivers.
Ati should lose the super crap .net framework and add this instead in the next catalyst release.
 
Geforce 6 series has its fare share of 2d issues till reascently when NVIDIA solved numorous problems with their 66.xx and upwords drivers.
The most annoying problem was while browing the webpages which use flash advertising or images the scrolling will not be smooth. This is however fixed now.
Also other problem was red colour saturation issue while playing DVD. This till now aint fixed perfectly but its now not noticible unless you have ATI and Nvidia machine side by side and playing same media.
DV helped fix this issue though.
Radeon series has little better vibrance even at default settings. But DV compensates that on NV cards.
This is what i have seen as i have used both ATI cards and NVIDIA cards. My previous card was 9800XT and I never felt need for anything like DV.
 
saumilsingh said:
I read a 6600gt shootout once where the xfx card blurred the image at 1600x1200.
That's a lame excuse, it's not like dv is some hardware specific feature, all it does is increase the color saturation via drivers.
Ati should lose the super crap .net framework and add this instead in the next catalyst release.
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Well DV is actiually postprocessing but Nvidia has patented it :@

By the way .NET is not crap man. there is a reason why ATI is doing that.
And you can download the versions which do not need the .NET as well.
Blame microsoft for .NET. In future NVIDIA and everyone else will have to use .NET. With longhorn and possible future update of Windows XP everyone will need to use .NET.
ATI is doing it from now, its no big deal. Everyone will have to switch sooner or later.
 
funkymonkey said:
Well DV is actiually postprocessing but Nvidia has patented it :@

By the way .NET is not crap man. there is a reason why ATI is doing that.
And you can download the versions which do not need the .NET as well.
Blame microsoft for .NET. In future NVIDIA and everyone else will have to use .NET. With longhorn and possible future update of Windows XP everyone will need to use .NET.
ATI is doing it from now, its no big deal. Everyone will have to switch sooner or later.
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if they do then i will be switching platforms :P mostly linux for sure
 
funkymonkey said:
Geforce 6 series has its fare share of 2d issues till reascently when NVIDIA solved numorous problems with their 66.xx and upwords drivers.
The most annoying problem was while browing the webpages which use flash advertising or images the scrolling will not be smooth. This is however fixed now.
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@funky, I am not sure whether this is a problem specific to the GF series. I have an ATI Fury/Rage3D Pro on my office system and whenever I am browsing thru web pages that have a lot of flash based animations, the scrolling is not smooth at all.

Actually, it looks like it is a problem with the FireFox browser, since the same pages when looked at thru IE 6 appears/scrolls quite smoothly. I even downloaded the latest FireFox update, but the problem still persists.
 
Thats a problem with FF man.It eats away cpu cycles while rendering flash heavy pages,causing "jerks".I posted it earlier too,even though I have a modest 2500+(or thereabout) processor,no way can flash use 80-100% cpu cycles as it does in ff.Case in point:browse through guru3d in ff and opera-the difference is clear.FF has begun to suck.
 
the only time I have DV on high is when I watch the Pink Floyd Live show VCD's .... MAN those Lazer Lights with the Vibrance on high really sends me on a TRIP !!! and that too without any illegal smokes :O

..... Shut all the room lights blast the volume up high on my Altec 621's and fly ......
 
funkymonkey said:
By the way .NET is not crap man. there is a reason why ATI is doing that.
And you can download the versions which do not need the .NET as well.
Blame microsoft for .NET. In future NVIDIA and everyone else will have to use .NET. With longhorn and possible future update of Windows XP everyone will need to use .NET.
ATI is doing it from now, its no big deal. Everyone will have to switch sooner or later.
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Longhorn will use .net apps efficiently integrating driver updates on the fly etc.
Good for most users, but I myself can't stand software that keeps updating itself without consent (read steam).
Results in a total trashing of the windows folder.

Also Longhorn will be able to use the non .net made apps just fine, and I will be sticking to those versions of display drivers as long as they don't pull a valve software on me and discard it completely.

In it's current state the .net catalyst control center is quite usable except for the HUGE memory footprint, who wants to waste that much memory on a display driver specially when the classic control panel works just as fine.
 
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