Hi It is so weird - it just started to happen yesterday - I did not tweak my XP or 3d card. I opened Media Player to watch a movie from DVD - The colours were distorted, like too bright with yellow shadows instead of black. I thought it was my DVD player so I downloaded movie trailers from the internet - Still the same. I tried my webcam to capture my face - Same problem. I even tried Real Player - no difference. I did uninstall and reinstal drivers. I even did use restore point. No luck. Can anyone please tell me what is the reason and how to solve this annoying problem. My PC is only new - about 3 months. I will ring to Alienware if you could not help me. Many thanks Nick aka DeadFish
In your display drivers is a section for color correction and video overlays. Check out the Hue and saturation settings in the video overlays section.
Ok I talked with Alienware - I had to unplug the 3d card and replug it. I did that - Still no luck. I even unplugged two 3d cards ( since that I got SLI sysyem ) and swapped them. Problem is still the same. Can not be 3d card that is faulty. Drivers : 77.72 - I did try 77.13 - same story. I used Drivers Cleaner Pro. Any help would be useful Thanks
Oh My F**KING GOD!! that is all??? It works now - Doh! I must be World's stupidest geek! Honestly I did not change that colour correction settings. Weird! Thanks for saving my life - I was going to get my 3d card RMA'd!
Well, I did search ' Distorted Colours' and I got some posts that were not relating to my problem. Anyway, thanks for replying.
Wait wait! How did you fix it? I'm having the same problem. How exactly did you change video overlay settings? Sam
Go to Nvidia icon on system tray - Right click on it - go to Colour Correction - Go to Overlay - That Colour Profile, choose Advanced Mode - Mess about with the settings until you are happy with the look of movies. Sigh - Stupid Nvidia has still not fixed this TINY - probably world's tiniest bug!! Lazy buggers!
