Saturday, July 26, 2014

YCbCr444 true blacks in Nividia Surround (VG23AH)



My monitors always look amazing, but they are at their best when I use the YCbCr444 setting instead of the standard RGB, the issue was I was only ever able to have the center Display changed to that setting when I run surround, the two monitors on the side always stay stuck in RGB thus they were lighter and didn’t look as good, until now. 

Extra: my post on Bezel thinning can be found here 
Extra #2 : I'm using SweetFX found here

The Center is alway on the right blacks you just can't  it best through a photo, but phone camera was the only way to show the distortions cause it wouldn't have shown via a screenshot.

Right side Before

Right side After





Left side Before
 Left side After

I’ve only been able to change it to last for the duration my computer is on, which means this will have to be done over again at startup before your gaming session, but it doesn’t take long and I think it’s worth the few seconds each time in order to fully appreciate your Nividia surround.

Geforce driver 337.88 released 5/26/2014 and later.
Cable set-up with 2 660gtx 3gb sc edition SLI (2 cards)
        <Left>                                         <Center>                   <Right>
HDMI to HDMI on Card #2   HDMI to DVI on Card #1   HDMI to HDMI on Card#1         (Assigned Physx on this Card)

Set-up INSTRUCTIONS

1.  Right click and select NIVIDIA Control Panel
2.  Under Display, select Adjust desktop color settings
3.  Click Restore default on the top right corner and Apply
4.  Then select YCbCr444 from the color format click Apply

5   Select Use Nividia Settings and change the hue to 4 degrees while changing the Color Format back to     RGB and Apply

The monitors will then overlap the YCbCr444 black to the side monitors and save it in their own memory while chaning the center to the lighter RGB.

6.  Select YCbcr444 format again and now all three Displays will have the same colors of true blacks.


Every-day Log in Instructions after initial set up
When you log off the only thing that will save is the YCbCr444 in the color format while the two side monitors will be lighter in toned again. Now and simply follow the following same step

1.  Right click and select NIVIDIA Control Panel
2.  Under Display, select Adjust desktop color settings
3.  Click Restore default on the top right corner and Apply
4.  Select Use NIVIDIA settings and Applyif you don't see a change move the hue to 2-4 then apply
5.  Then select YCbCr444 from the color format click Apply