NVIDIA limited HDMI color range

[Syntaxvgm]

Remember when NVIDIA used to not allow you to ouput full color range over HDMI and you had to do special work around to make it work? 

Remember when they patched it so your couldn't do that? Cause god forbid their asshole customers output full color to their HDMI monitors?

 

Well now that they finally added the color range option some time ago, I notice it frequently reset to limited if I update the drivers or unplug the screens.

I forgot how beautiful my IPS screens are because of this shit. Any way to prevent it from defaulting to limited on all HDMI devices? Seriously I cannot remember the last time I encountered even a TV that would not accept t a full color signal, even if it didn't display all of the colors. 

 

This is fucking frustrating, given the limited color range makes scan lines even on some of my screens, which is how I notice it change. It makes my IPS screens look like my 144Hz TN screen with better viewing angles. 

[Deadlymushroom]

AFAIK you just have to do it by hand every time.

 

I had the same issue before my new 480. I would always just go through and manually reset it, and a quick Google search yielded no further help. Guess you'll have to make do with the current system until they get around to patching something as simple as color support.

[Curufinwe_wins]

7 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

Remember when NVIDIA used to not allow you to ouput full color range over HDMI and you had to do special work around to make it work? 

Remember when they patched it so your couldn't do that? Cause god forbid their asshole customers output full color to their HDMI monitors?

 

Well now that they finally added the color range option some time ago, I notice it frequently reset to limited if I update the drivers or unplug the screens.

I forgot how beautiful my IPS screens are because of this shit. Any way to prevent it from defaulting to limited on all HDMI devices? Seriously I cannot remember the last time I encountered even a TV that would not accept t a full color signal, even if it didn't display all of the colors. 

 

This is fucking frustrating, given the limited color range makes scan lines even on some of my screens, which is how I notice it change. It makes my IPS screens look like my 144Hz TN screen with better viewing angles. 

Use displayport? IDK, I've literally never seen this issue on any of my gpu's (including laptops) going through 100s of driver updates.

[Syntaxvgm]

Just now, Deadlymushroom said:

AFAIK you just have to do it by hand every time.

 

I had the same issue before my new 480. I would always just go through and manually reset it, and a quick Google search yielded no further help. Guess you'll have to make do with the current system until they get around to patching something as simple as color support.

it's fucking unacceptable and every other person's PC I've used with HDMI monitors didn't know about this, it's buried in the settings. In the very least they can pop up a notification about it when you set the drivers up. 

Is this maybe something I can fix via registry? By something I can throw in a batch script that runs on login maybe? 

[Cheddle]

yeah this gives me the shits.... I immediately notice it and change it on my HTPC that is using hdmi. what a PITA.

[Syntaxvgm]

1 minute ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

Use displayport? IDK, I've literally never seen this issue on any of my gpu's (including laptops) going through 100s of driver updates.

these are HDMI only monitors, as are a LOT of non-gaming screens. It only happens on HDMI. 2 are adapter from DP, but the card treats them as though it's direct HDMI, obviously. 

This also happens with my 1080p ultrawide, only 2 hdmi ports on it. In fact, the only screen I've bought in recent times that has DP is my acer predator 

[Deadlymushroom]

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1 minute ago, Syntaxvgm said:

Is this maybe something I can fix via registry? By something I can throw in a batch script that runs on login maybe? 

 

Possibly? I don't have the GPU anymore (or the monitor, for that matter) to try it out. If you can find and change it in the registry you can probably whip something up.

[Curufinwe_wins]

2 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

these are HDMI only monitors, as are a LOT of non-gaming screens. It only happens on HDMI. 2 are adapter from DP, but the card treats them as though it's direct HDMI, obviously. 

This also happens with my 1080p ultrawide, only 2 hdmi ports on it. In fact, the only screen I've bought in recent times that has DP is my acer predator 

HDMI only? As in you can't use DVI? I'd try that if it kept having issues. 

[Syntaxvgm]

Just now, Curufinwe_wins said:

HDMI only? As in you can't use DVI? I'd try that if it kept having issues. 

if you adapt from dvi to hdmi the GPU detects that as hdmi. 

[Syntaxvgm]

so far I've only found a windows registry setting to disable hdmi deep color range. 

[Syntaxvgm]

searching the old registry values that the hotfix that someone made used, they no longer exist, in fact I think they changed that BEFORE putting the patch out, which was frustrating. 

[Curufinwe_wins]

12 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

if you adapt from dvi to hdmi the GPU detects that as hdmi. 

No I mean doesn't your monitor have DVI? I have literally never seen a monitor with only HDMI. 

 

EDIT: Looked it up... There are a few I guess... ugh annoying to think the cheapest cheapo monitors at least use DVI instead.

 

Also the only thing I would suggest is an active adapter that might mask the HDMI issue. But again, I used an HDMI tv for 7 years as my primary monitor and never saw the issue (I have heard of it naturally). I don't know a good solution.

[Syntaxvgm]

7 minutes ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

No I mean doesn't your monitor have DVI? I have literally never seen a monitor with only HDMI. 

 

EDIT: Looked it up... There are a few I guess... ugh annoying to think the cheapest cheapo monitors at least use DVI instead.

 

Also the only thing I would suggest is an active adapter that might mask the HDMI issue. But again, I used an HDMI tv for 7 years as my primary monitor and never saw the issue (I have heard of it naturally). I don't know a good solution.

The only monitors I've bought new in the last 5 years that come with DVI were korean ones. 

I have 3 Asus ips monitors, all have 2 HDMI and 1 VGA, 2 1440p korean monitors (those have DVI, one only DVI annoyingly), an ultrawide, 2 HDMI ports only, and my ACER predator, 1 DP and HDMI. I do have a really old 1080p TN screen that's kinda going out on mounted on my workbench, that has DVI, VGA and HDMI 

In fact, since DVI is no longer common, windows 8 and 10 will default scaling on DVI on like the login screen via NVIDIA drivers, because I think it thinks it's a laptop with LVDS if it's above 1080p. Makes little sense as most newer high res ones use edp, but that's the explanation I have 

[Curufinwe_wins]

19 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

The only monitors I've bought new in the last 5 years that come with DVI were korean ones. 

I have 3 Asus ips monitors, all have 2 HDMI and 1 VGA, 2 1440p korean monitors (those have DVI, one only DVI annoyingly), an ultrawide, 2 HDMI ports only, and my ACER predator, 1 DP and HDMI. 

In fact, since DVI is no longer common, windows 8 and 10 will default scaling on DVI on like the login screen via NVIDIA drivers, because I think it thinks it's a laptop with LVDS if it's above 1080p. 

That is so odd...

 

I have a Visio TV that has DVI, VGA, 2 HDMI. Two ASUS IPS montiors with VGA, DVI, HDMI, and DP, and a 34pg8q that only has DP and HDMI.

 

Anyways. I really never knew there were monitors without DVI and DP (the random ones I see at work are generally DP+DVI, DVI+HDMI+VGA, or DVI+VGA.)

 

I wish I could suggest a fix. Sorry.

[Syntaxvgm]

13 minutes ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

That is so odd...

 

I have a Visio TV that has DVI, VGA, 2 HDMI. Two ASUS IPS montiors with VGA, DVI, HDMI, and DP, and a 34pg8q that only has DP and HDMI.

 

Anyways. I really never knew there were monitors without DVI (the random ones I see at work are generally DP+DVI, DVI+HDMI+VGA, or DVI+VGA.)

 

I wish I could suggest a fix. Sorry.

VN248H-P if you were curious, oddly supports MHL and came with MHL cables. 

Anyway it's a dated standard, and it's only included sometimes for compatibility's sake. I've even seen a lot of newer dell 'business' screens be hdmi and vga, hdmi only, or DP only, the latter of which is odd as a lot of devices still don't have DP, though they are kinda meant to be used with dell optiplex desktops. 

[Curufinwe_wins]

Just now, Syntaxvgm said:

VN248H-P if you were curious, oddly supports MHL and came with MHL cables. 

Anyway it's a dated standard, and it's only included sometimes for compatibility's sake. I've even seen a lot of newer dell 'business' screens be hdmi and vga, hdmi only, or DP only, the latter of which is odd as a lot of devices still don't have DP, though they are kinda meant to be used with dell optiplex desktops. 

MHL? wow that is so odd.

 

Well I also see a lot of "workstation style" pc's which have cheaper quaddros and those are almost always DP+DVI so it isn't surprising to see OEM's ship DVI/DP monitors with them.

 

Now that I think about it.

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Just now, Curufinwe_wins said:

MHL? wow that is so odd.

 

Well I also see a lot of "workstation style" pc's which have cheaper quaddros and those are almost always DP+DVI so it isn't surprising to see OEM's ship DVI/DP monitors with them.

 

Now that I think about it.

yah a lot of the dell optiplex desktops that don't use quarto cards have a passive pci expansion card that basically adds more ports for the intel card, if memory serves me right. 

[Curufinwe_wins]

5 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

yah a lot of the dell optiplex desktops that don't use quarto cards have a passive pci expansion card that basically adds more ports for the intel card, if memory serves me right. 

That sucks.

[Syntaxvgm]

Just now, Curufinwe_wins said:

That sucks.

Eh for deploying a ton of computers for regular office use it's a nice option to add more screens.