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post #1 of 5
12/5/03 at 5:24pm
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I've noticed that in a lot of my games the videos look poor on my laptop. They have splotchy sqares and just aren't nearly as clear as they are on my desktop pc. I'm using the ATI card with the Omega drivers, and everything looks awesome, except for the cut scenes in games. It's almost acting as if it isn't using enough colors to properly render them. Once in the game itself it's perfectly clear. Anyone else notice this or know what I can try in order to fix it. DVD's are perfectly clear as well, just the game cut scenes.

Splinter Cell and Need for Speed Underground are the two I noticed having the biggest impact.
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post #2 of 5
12/5/03 at 6:02pm
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Originally Posted by Daedilus
I've noticed that in a lot of my games the videos look poor on my laptop. They have splotchy sqares and just aren't nearly as clear as they are on my desktop pc. I'm using the ATI card with the Omega drivers, and everything looks awesome, except for the cut scenes in games. It's almost acting as if it isn't using enough colors to properly render them. Once in the game itself it's perfectly clear. Anyone else notice this or know what I can try in order to fix it. DVD's are perfectly clear as well, just the game cut scenes.

Splinter Cell and Need for Speed Underground are the two I noticed having the biggest impact.
If you're seeing "Artifacts" that is usually from heat. It sounds like you're only having them in cutscenes so I'm a bit perplexed myself. What has AW support said to you?

If you've not tried the new ATi drivers I would start there (v7.95). And if you do install new drivers (of any kind) always be sure to uninstall the old ones first from Control Panel>Add Remove

-Craig
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post #3 of 5
12/6/03 at 4:45pm
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I was using the new 7.95, but I uninstalled them and installed the omega ones hoping that they would fix it. I haven't talked to the aliens yet, but probably will in the next week or so ( because of finals ). It's not artifiacts though, because everything looks perfect when it's not playing a video. It looks alot like what happens when you take a 32 bit picture and display it in 16 bit mode, where things just don't look blended together right.
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post #4 of 5
12/6/03 at 5:46pm
I see all these video issues and it seems some have them and some don't. Would any of you be willing to post a screenshot of what the washed out screen looks like? I just want a picture to go with the story.
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post #5 of 5
12/6/03 at 8:22pm
So for kicks...

I decided to install the latest Omega drivers. I first uninstalled the ATi 7.95 drivers and Control Panel.

When I click on the Omega exe file and continued through the prompts I got an error message while trying to install the Omega drivers. The message read:

"No INF file
Try installing a Standard VGA driver and then restarting the installer"

So used the standard XP VGA adapter driver...retried...and got the same message.

For now I'm back to the 7.95's (minus the Control Panel since I'm using Powerstrip) but sure would like to run a few benchmarks with the Omegas as well as see if there are an other obvious color/gamma advantages.

If anyone can help...I'd give you a bananaman or two

Thx!

-Craig
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