ATI 9800 Pro colour problems !!

[raptess]

Recently myself and a friend got together for a LAN session, and I noticed something that concerns me a great deal..

The difference in the colour displayed by an ATI card vs an nVidia card.

I run an FX6800GT and my colours are clear and crisp, white = white, blues = blues, lighting effects look great etc etc..

The thing I noticed was my friends machine with an ATI 9800 Pro, his colours are all washed out looking and when lighting effects are used it even changes the colours completely, ie.. White = Creamy, Reds = Brown, Blue = Purple, different shades of the same colour actualy merge together and look like One colour all over.

We tried swapping our monitors over, and it made no difference at all.. My FX was crips on his monitor, his ATI was off colour on mine.

Tried about 10 different driver versions on his ATI, different BIOS's and still nothing helped the washed out look.

We took screenshots of a game on both machines, at the same spot in the game, transfered them to the other machines and on my FX they both looked crisp and clear, on the ATI they were crap looking.. This tells me the ATI is rendering the colours correctly, but displaying them wrong.

Has anyone else come across this problem, or is this a One off thing ??

 

[Crashman]

I've never seen that, but he can adjust the colors in advanced display properties if needed.

<font color=blue>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to a hero as big as Crashman!</font color=blue>
<font color=red>Only a place as big as the internet could be home to an ego as large as Crashman's!</font color=red>

 

[raptess]

Been there done that .. Adjusted all the settings, colour / gama / contrast and everything else there is .. Still has the same problem.

 

[Mitch007]

Have a play with your drivers,

MIS645Ultra/P42.4@2.8Gig/2*Corsair 256MBit CL2-2-2-7XMSLLPT PC3200 DDR RAM/450W Enermax PSU/1*40Gig 7200rpm Wes-Dig/1*20Gig 7200 Hitachi Disk/GeF4 Ti4200 XFX Turbo 670/250 Ram/Core MHz.

 

[ChipDeath]

How odd. You sure you're both running the same colour depth? Does he have all the sliders in the Ati Control panel set to "Max Quality"?

my 9800Pro gives a great image, IMO.

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