8500GT settings...n00b question;)

[stustunz]

post a screen shot from each card if you can

[zerocool00]

post a screen shot from each card if you can

will do.

[SUPERMAN40]

I am using the DVI to HDMI converter, then an HDMI double male cable to my TV (a rear projection 55" Sony) - the sound goes to my audio amp.

The 8500 card does the job very well, maybe you TV setup needs adjustment. My Sony tv setup screen is very extensive. I need to tell it which input and what resolution etc.

You need to sent the 8500 card to 1080i (not p) to use the scaling. If you do not use scaling then you will have a 10% overscan.

[zerocool00]

I am using the DVI to HDMI converter, then an HDMI double male cable to my TV (a rear projection 55" Sony) - the sound goes to my audio amp.

The 8500 card does the job very well, maybe you TV setup needs adjustment. My Sony tv setup screen is very extensive. I need to tell it which input and what resolution etc.

You need to sent the 8500 card to 1080i (not p) to use the scaling. If you do not use scaling then you will have a 10% overscan.

OK. I will try this again. You used "clone" to have your TV and monitor connected at the same time correct? I looked at my TV menu and after I select the appropiate input, I have just a few options. It auto detect the "resolution" type of input according the TV manual. Automatic is great until it doesn't work right.

Thanks,
Michael

[zerocool00]

OK.. I have it working using HDMI input on TV now (moved cable and tried the second HDMI input and it works). Here is my next dumb question. I see where to change "signal for HD format" to 1080i input, but how dow I scale to get ride of the overscan? I don't see the option to resize my screen on the Digital input. What "tab" is it under?

Michael

[SUPERMAN40]

Nvidia control pannel/video and television/resize HDTV desktop

use the resize my desktop - at new window will appear with a slider to change the size of your viewing area.

[zerocool00]

Nvidia control pannel/video and television/resize HDTV desktop

use the resize my desktop - at new window will appear with a slider to change the size of your viewing area.

AHha...got it.. It didn't show up until I restarted. All is working now in that department.

Still not getting the greatest picture unless I use overlay. When using overlay, picture is great, but computer is slower to respond and the text for the guide or anything else that is displayed while in Live TV mode is very pixelated. EVR is next in the lineup, looking OK, but still nowhere equal to overlay. Is there settings in the Nvidia control panel that I can set to make EVR look as good as overlay? Or any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Michael

[SUPERMAN40]

I will let the GBPVR experts guide you from now on. I only knew the small part about getting the 8500 card to work with your HDTV

[stustunz]

with 8500 card you should be getting good pictures no matter what
you can adjust the colours etc under the 3d settings (vmr custom)
evr on windows doesnt use the hardware acceleration of your card hence the reason thing may be slow

set your decoder to system default (only if you have nvidia pure video decoder and its set to default in your system if you have lots of decoders this may not work)
have a look in task bar to see if nvidia icon shows up if its not then pure video isnt working correctly
click on the icon and make sure you have hardware accel turn on

while playing video open your video properties and adjust the brightness and contrast (under 3d settings tab)
best to have a video playing with a man in a black suite and white shirt
reason been is once you get the black and white rigght you can also make sure the skin colour is nice aswell if you get these 3 things correct then everything else should look nice aswell

[alnaln]

My nvidia 8500 GT video card could handle anything thing I threw
at it until I recently upgraded to a full 1080P TV and saw video
stuttering and heard sound synch issues when playing 1080p and
1080i recordings.

It outputs 1080p just fine. But if the SOURCE material was 1080p,
it would cause the stuttering. If I tried to watch 1080i OTA hi-def
recordings, they would lag and stutter too.

The root cause was that ffdshow wasn't able to handle the "sharpen"
option (or any other option) fast enough - even though I have a
2.1GHz CPU.

Turned off this option and my playback is silky smooth.

Just another data point for others with similar problems.