Question why do my displays look SO horrible?

[Homerboy]

I have dual AOC G2590FX monitors running off a 1080 GTX. One is connected via HDMI, the other DP. I know not the best stuff in the world, but it HAS to look better than it doesn.
The picture/color quality SUCKS. Everything is lifeless, muted. Blacks are grey. Just looks horrible.
I know they can look better because if I turn on my PS5 to the same monitor(s) everything looks great - blacks are (much more black) colors pop, things look GOOD

I have messed with the Nvidia control panel all over the place. I've reset the monitors to "default" to reset any dumb settings I may have adjusted a while ago. No matter what I do, these things looks like junk.

Help me!

 

[Brainonska511]

I assume they both look equally bad, so we can rule out the connection type issues?

Some thoughts on what you could try:

• Could try 10-bit color vs 8-bit color (I think this is in the driver control panel)
• Enable HDR in Windows if your monitor can do that
• See if you can find an ICC profile for your monitor and load that in - maybe there is something with the default calibration; or use the built-in Windows color calibration to create your own

 

[sdifox]

Download Nvidia driver
Download DDU
Reboot into safe mode
Uninstall video driver
Run DDU
Restart
Install new driver.

 

[bigboxes]

moo

 

[VirtualLarry]

adjust "digital vibrance" to max? I agree, AMD cards look a lot more colorful over HDMI than NV 20-series cards for some reason.

 

[sdifox]

adjust "digital vibrance" to max? I agree, AMD cards look a lot more colorful over HDMI than NV 20-series cards for some reason.

more colourful is not necessarily more accurate, I don't know either way re nvidia vs amd, but show room displays tend to be set to vibrant, which is not the way you should look at it.

 

[repoman0]

Old thread but this sounds exactly like what things look like if the signaling is set to “limited” mode rather than “full”. Basically limited means the range of allowable values gets compressed into 16-240ish rather than 0-255 to save bandwidth, but if the monitor is expecting the full range then everything looks like washed out garbage with no contrast.

 

[mikeymikec]

Old thread but this sounds exactly like what things look like if the signaling is set to “limited” mode rather than “full”. Basically limited means the range of allowable values gets compressed into 16-240ish rather than 0-255 to save bandwidth, but if the monitor is expecting the full range then everything looks like washed out garbage with no contrast.

AFAIK that's a HDMI thing (for TVs) and does not apply to DisplayPort.