Get Better Colors With Nvidia

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- How to fix color banding with an Nvidia card.
1. Download Geforce drivers
2. Right click the desktop and click on "NVIDIA Control Panel"
3. Click "Adjust video color settings"
4. Click "With the NVIDIA settings" then click "Advanced"
5. Change "Dynamic range:" from limited to full then click Apply
6. Go to "Change resolution"
7. Scroll down and click "Use NVIDIA color settings"
8. Change "Output color depth:" from limited to Full
9. Click Apply on the bottom right corner
10. DONE!


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[ShaneMcGrath.]

Change the output color depth to 10 bit if your monitor can handle it.
That makes a difference, I found that my old 4k 60hz 10bit TN panel has way better color than my 1440p 165hz 8 bit IPS which is a little weird, So much for IPS being better.

[Blazearff]

This made my HDR stop looking so grey. thank you

[Dave-bemm]

Thanks man, great video! To the point, not super long intros or outros, no super long plugs, no fake giveaways, no extra fluff to get to 10 minutes. You sir, are a real one.

[existenceghost]

I did this a week ago and omg it was like a new screen. I have a 27" IPS 1440p BenQ monitor and the colors were always great but I was in the Nvidia control panel one day just messing around and decided to try this out and couldn't believe the difference. Good Vid.

[GraphicallyChallenged]

If you found this helpful or have any other suggestions let me know in the comments below!

[bayr]

i skipped several 20+ minutes videos to find this gem here. straight to the point. earned a sub.

[lukazlkz]

TY so much! You definitely change my TN monitor, now it looks pretty decent! Thank you! 👏👏👏

[saadakram]

I bought a used asus monitor today and i wasn't very satisfied with the colors. I couldn't fix it in the monitor settings and then i found this video. This really helped me thank you so much <3 <3 <3 I'm so satisfied and happy now

[kevinv]

Omg thank you so much!! Looked for these settings for days 😁

[jadengoh]

"But on laptops, there is a chance that it won't work"
Me: Laughs in monitor connected to laptop therefore making it work

[evolvingcreativity]

Thank you very much. I have had this computer for 3 years and just now realized how bad the banding was when I was trying to watch DUNE 2 on HBO MAX and the colors/banding were terrible. Great video!

[thegeekaboveall]

thanks so much man my monito suddenly looked so washed out and you helped me fix it

[theoryan]

Thank you so much. I was non-stop changing my gamma and color until it looked right when the whole time it wasnt set to full. I would of never of found that setting. Thanks 😊

[SimpleWonderJoy]

It looks much better with these few changes. Thank you for doing videos for beginners like me!

[friendlyman]

Bro, as soon as I hit apply my youtube background went from dark gray to black. Thank you man.

[JimBob]

The first setting only affects video players, and not recommended to override unless you know the content type and know the system is incorrectly detecting it. However, this won't necessarily give you a "more accurate" picture for videos either, it depends on the kind of video content you're viewing. SD and other content are mastered in limited dynamic range and forcing them to full may result in a worse picture (incorrect blacks and inaccurate color tints mainly), largely because the content was mastered with 16 being black and 235 being white, there isn't any data above and below that range that was expected to be shown. Changing this setting isn't needed 99% of the time anyways as the automatic setting is able to detect the type of dynamic range of the video by the meta flags that exist in the video encoding, and thus this really should be left to 'automatic' in the Nvidia control panel, giving your video player the control over the proper range. Even still, if your video player is incorrectly detecting it, they generally have the range option in their settings, which is preferable to a global Nvidia control panel override. In other words, this is bad advice. Let your video player handle the range itself. As for the second setting, the general PC desktop video output... PC's are full range video output devices by default. Thus, it is pointless to change the settings from automatic to custom to then manually specify the exact same settings automatic was choosing. It is only in the rarest of circumstances when your EDID sent incorrect information to Nvidia's drivers that you would need to override the automatic setting.
In general, do not worry about changing these settings. If you're interested in a better picture and your display supports HDR, then I'd look at enabling HDR which gives a higher bit (10-12 bits) dynamic range versus the old 8 bit, further it will enable higher bit rate colors as well, giving access to an expanded color gamut range. However, keep in mind that you may need to alter the display calibration or use an HDR mode on your display, otherwise your black levels will be incorrect.

[TheRealShinobi]

Thank you so much my graphics card isn't new but I needed the default settings

[pilotintraining]

After 20 plus videos I finally fixed my problem ! Thank you sir

[salvatoreannunziata]

In just 2 minutes you explained how to make better colors, no uselees stuffs for reach the 10+ minutes, that's great, just like the video

[traianm]

thanks a lot for this suggestion, it actually made a difference, can't believe i haven't heard about this tip yet, subscribed