The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    M18x HDMI input issues.

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by Virgle144, Mar 25, 2012.

  1. Virgle144

    Virgle144 Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    54
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Recently I have just gotten a xbox 360 I am using the HDMI in feature on the laptop, and I have noticed something. The most prevalent issue is that the screen flickers I don't mean like going black and then displaying the image, just a small flicker that is most noticeable when there is something darker on the screen like when a game is loading. The second thing is, and it is not a big deal it is just probably the limitation of the xbox hardware, but the image does not really look crisp, I don't mean games but I mean text, and menus it does not look as crisp as the images displayed on the same screen when not using the HDMI in feature.
     
    Virgle144, Mar 25, 2012
    #1
  2. eadgar

    eadgar Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    6
    Messages:
    135
    Likes Received:
    28
    Trophy Points:
    41
    Try fiddling around with the video output settings on your Xbox. They're in the advanced section somewhere. Mine were set to output RGB and it worked great.
     
    eadgar, Mar 26, 2012
    #2
  3. Virgle144

    Virgle144 Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    54
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Mine is currently set to RGB :c
     
    Virgle144, Mar 26, 2012
    #3
  4. eadgar

    eadgar Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    6
    Messages:
    135
    Likes Received:
    28
    Trophy Points:
    41
    Update your AMD drivers?
     
    eadgar, Mar 26, 2012
    #4
  5. Virgle144

    Virgle144 Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    54
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Does not seem to be a AMD driver issue, I tested it with the intel graphics
     
    Virgle144, Mar 26, 2012
    #5
  6. xI_WeLLs_Ix

    xI_WeLLs_Ix Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    5
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Yeah I notice that. RGB setting does help out with improving the colour detail slightly but not sharpness. Unfortunately, you can't change the settings for the HDMI in :/
     
    xI_WeLLs_Ix, Apr 17, 2012
    #6
  7. Virgle144

    Virgle144 Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    54
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Ifixed my issue by going trough every single setting on the xbox 360, and found one that works, I don't remember what it was called.
     
    Virgle144, Apr 18, 2012
    #7