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    Color Banding Problem - GTX 560M

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by barrybuystape, Nov 11, 2011.

  1. barrybuystape

    barrybuystape Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've recently noticed that my laptop (Sager np8150, GTX 560M, standard LCD monitor) suffered from some serious banding problem when playing videos or running videogame. the rising smoke on Skyrim title screen looked really awful (screenshot attached), and I'd also experience this problem when playing some .AVI file (windows media player, K-lite codec pack installed with "codecs only without player" configuration).

    My question: since it's actually capable of running almost any games with acceptable framerates and no problem regarding the quality whatsoever (barring the banding problem, of course), what could be causing this problem? Did I set something wrong in the Nvidia control panel? (I couldn't upload a screenshot from when I played an .AVI file, as I forget which file would cause the banding problem. but it's definitely there, and looked just like the skyrim banding screenshot I uploaded).
     

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