Digital Vibrance on Radeon?

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On my old Ti4200 I had an option to Digital Vibrance in the Control Panel,
does anyone know if ATI have anything similar in their drivers?

So far I haven't found anything.

TIA.
 
Knickers said:
On my old Ti4200 I had an option to Digital Vibrance in the Control Panel,
does anyone know if ATI have anything similar in their drivers?
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No such animal. Digital Vibrance was a bad idea, IMHO, boosting saturation
to unnatural levels for a cartoonlike look. No other cardmaker copied it
because is distorted the image rather than enhanced it.

I don't like orange faces and neon-blue skies on my TV set. Likewise I
prefer my PC to display games, photos and movies the way they actually look
rather than in garishly overboosted color.

Without trying to sound like an ATI fanboy, the colors on a Radeon tend to
look slightly more vivid at stock settings than the GF cards, and that may
have played a role in Nvidia's decision to offer DV.

I do realize that Nvidia owners who got used to seeing things with those
settings notice a difference they may not appreciate, just like newcomers to
home theater may prefer oversaturated color and maximum contrast to the
subtle perfection of a professionally calibrated TV, or a "fullscreen" DVD
with the image cropped on both sides to a widescreen version that shows the
whole frame with black bars top and bottom.

It's a matter of taste, and of knowing what things are supposed to look
like.
 
Digital Vibrance was a solution for dull image quality in cheapo MX cards -
I found it wouldnt work with higher nvidia cards (my geforce2 mx could use
but my geforce2 ti couldn't) so I suspect you've never used it on that
Ti4200. The image quality of Radeons is generally better
but if you use the rage3d tweak program that'll give you more tweak options
for contrast and gamma etc ...
www.rage3d.com
 
It worked on my Ti4200 and for some games when set low I found the effect
nice, I would rather have it and use it on the games I think it helps than
not have it.
I am now using the 9500 Pro and so far don't need it as there is no
comparison in image quality between the two cards.
PM
 
On my old Ti4200 I had an option to Digital Vibrance in the Control Panel,
does anyone know if ATI have anything similar in their drivers?

So far I haven't found anything.

TIA.
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I've spent quite a lot of time trying to mimic the DV feature on ATI and could
not. Check out this thread for a lot of info on the subject. Even the maker of
the Omega drivers chimes in.

http://tinyurl.com/2xxff

The discussion gets a little heated but as you can see by the poll .. its a
feature ATI should consider adding if they can get around the patent by Nvidia.

Pluvious
 
No such animal. Digital Vibrance was a bad idea, IMHO, boosting saturation
to unnatural levels for a cartoonlike look. No other cardmaker copied it
because is distorted the image rather than enhanced it.
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I only used DV for 1 game (Americas Army - on Bridge map) as there is a
terrible lack of colour, enabling DV made the level so much more 'prettier'
:)
 
Digital Vibrance was a solution for dull image quality in cheapo MX > I
found it wouldnt work with higher nvidia cards (my geforce2 mx could > but
my geforce2 ti couldn't) so I suspect you've never used it on that
Ti4200. The image quality of Radeons is generally better
but if you use the rage3d tweak program that'll give you more tweak options
for contrast and gamma etc ...
www.rage3d.com
Click to expand...

I've never owned an MX card, I used it only on my Ti4200, but not for
standard Windows applications, I only used DV for 1 particular game and 1
particular level within that game.
 
It worked on my Ti4200 and for some games when set low I found the > nice,
I would rather have it and use it on the games I think it helps than
not have it.
I am now using the 9500 Pro and so far don't need it as there is no
comparison in image quality between the two cards.
Click to expand...

I still miss having it, it really enhanced the game for which I used it,
quite a handy tool IMO, as long as you don't turn it up to rediculous
levels.
 
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