gtx 970 looking washed out, blurry, and fuzzy.

Omar Strobe

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i just bought a msi gtx 970 and i dont know why but it looks blurry,fuzzy and somewhat pixelated at 1080P and my r9 280x looks crisp and good compared to this gtx 970, i dont know what the problem is and i need help now if not ill just return it
 
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Naw you might have to roll back drivers. Nvidia has put out some crap drivers as of late and you better go to the Nvidia Forum and see. I have a problem with any driver past 344.11. As soon as my monitor goes to sleep everything goes blurry. I think 344.65 is the juicy one for the 9xx series cards that works. For 7xx it's 344.11. But check the forums just to be sure.

https://forums.geforce.com/

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yes i updated everything and yes all the games look like this, im using a 1080p monitor 60hz and a dvi cable everything is in correctly. i used geforce to update it
 

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Your resolution might be the problem, make sure you are using a native resolution. Also have you removed the old GPU drivers before installing the new one? Sometime interference between old drivers can happen.
 

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yes i did remove them all... unless i didnt do it correctly? there is just something not right. even i play games like plant vs zombies garden warfare there is like a stuttwr hiccup and it didnt do that before with my r9 280x and my r9 280x looked amazing.
 

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Naw you might have to roll back drivers. Nvidia has put out some crap drivers as of late and you better go to the Nvidia Forum and see. I have a problem with any driver past 344.11. As soon as my monitor goes to sleep everything goes blurry. I think 344.65 is the juicy one for the 9xx series cards that works. For 7xx it's 344.11. But check the forums just to be sure.

https://forums.geforce.com/
 
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Omar Strobe

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i need a helpful answer

 

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You would need to do a driver wipe to be certain that the old stuff isn't present on your system. Then, you can re-install the drivers. If you are meticulous and you think the driver themselves might be the problem, you can try to install older drivers and slowly go up the driver iteration number.
This is the driver sweeper that the folks at Guru3d use http://www.guru3d.com/content-page/guru3d-driver-sweeper.html (read the instruction carefully).
 

Omar Strobe

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yes i did and same thing
 

Omar Strobe

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unless its cause i was used to 384 bit and gtx is a 256biy? or there is no visual difference?
 

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No man that is just the memory bandwidth. It wouldn't cause burryness. Did you roll your driver to 344.65?
 

Omar Strobe

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yes i did roll it back still kinda looks the same, everything just doesn't seem as bright and it seems blurry idk man its weird unles everything just has so much detail now, how big of a jump is a 970 over a 280x?
 

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Hi Omar, I have the exact same issue. Just bought Gigabyte GTX 970 to replace my R9 280X, the crispness of the grahpics is GONE and this does downgrade my gaming experience.

Did you find any solutions by the way?
 

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Hello,
I know you said you checked the Nnvidia Control Panel options but I had the same problem with a gtx 960 and it was instantly fixed by setting the Dynamic Range setting in the "Adjust desktop color settings" section from limited, which it was set so for some reason, to full
 

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I have the same damn problem! youtube videos are blurred, vlc videos too, youtube HD is like nothing HD. I replaced my ATI HD 4850 with Nvidia GTX 650. Now Im searching for a fix...will never buy nvidia again.

and no, my resolution is not HIGH, its 1280x1024 with the latest nvidia drivers
 

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What fixed it for me with my new GTX 970 is going to the Nvidia Control Panel, "Adjust desktop color settings", and changing "choose how color is set" to "use nvidia settings". I never had to mess with this setting before, but I noticed after installing my new card that the colors looked washed out. This was it!
 

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Wait so you're saying that having the Nvidia preference on made it washed out?