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LCD "chromatic abberation" & fringeing

Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by antic, Jan 25, 2008.

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Not sure if that's the right term, or indeed if this is the right forum for a technical question?

My old ASUS M4N notebook could handle scaling to non-native resolutions without any visible false-colour "edging" appearing, whereas my new HP 8710p can't scale to *any* non-native res without discoloured edging and spottiness.

(mockup of the effect. looks like a badly compressed jpeg)

Is this a failing of the screen itself, or the driver that's doing the colour interpolation? If it's not hardware-related, are there ways to fix or at least minimise the effect? My card is a Quadro 320M (8700M).

Cheers!

antic, Jan 25, 2008

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Poke around the NVIDIA's options and settings. I seem to remember seeing a tab where you could specify how non-native scaling is to be done. There were just 2 or 3 options, and maybe they all look the same, but give it a try.

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The only option I can see is "Image Sharpening" on the "Adjust laptop colour settings" page. But, frustratingly, the slider is disabled! Why is that?

antic, Jan 25, 2008

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