The first is pretty clean, the encoding on the 2nd is causing issues with banding. Also, i looked at the gradient backgrounds on Alan's DA and do not see banding. My guess is the aquarium and vista aren't too happy.
I am going to try the newest beta 180 driver too. My guess is the same results. Lets see! Never mind 178.24 for vista 64 bit is the newest. |
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MA3 is not doing anything different between XP and Vista. If the problem is only happening in Vista, it is pointing to a Driver issue in Vista as the cause of the banding.
Also I am not sure from the reports here who are really having the banding issues and which video cards have the problem except for Skypx. Please be clear if you have a problem or not and what your specs are. I am looking for a pattern in the setup. I can assume from what I have read so far that only NVidia has the banding problem. This means we also need reports if you are not having any problems. |
I have already said that here...
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The only reason I posted was to show the difference between the png and jpg pictures. Its hard to tell if/what banding is occuring when posting jpg's. I myself don't see a problem with my setup.
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OK, 5 (or 6) systems (one is dual-boot) 3 Windows XP Pro, 3 Vista (32 bit), one of the Vistas is a laptop. Various screens. All systems happen to have (various) ATI video cards.
No problems, no banding observed. Of course, if more details are necessary, I'll supply them. But perhaps that's enough. |
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How is your monitor connected to the computer? (DVI-A, DVI-D, VGA) DVI-... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...pes.svg/181px- VGA http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Pinout.svg.png |
So far, the only person having the problem is skypx, is this correct?
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All those DVI's. The great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.
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IIRC, Cliff's monitors use 18 bit TN panels and he sees no banding, right? |
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So there are less factors involved. No ATI issues. |
Alright, sorry to throw that red herring into this if it's not a possible cause of the issue.
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Edgar - Socrates reports banding in Beta 5 & 6. See Message 7.
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Skypx, - My XFX GF 7900GS AGP is a dual DVI card. - As I understand it, DVI-D single link are the correct cables for my two VP920 (1280x1024) ViewSonic Monitors.
Tiny, - "IIRC, Cliff's monitors use 18 bit TN panels and he sees no banding, right?" - Not sure about the 18-bit, but correct about: No Banding!. ps, - Surely it's as simple as just reading the posts in this thread to see who is having the problem? And isn't the pertinent word in all this... "Vista"? :erm: ;);) |
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In what way do you think that DVI is the problem here?
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I still think this is a driver problem.
I am waiting on Soc's system specs. I think NVidia is not handling the clipping of a large triangle model correctly. Maybe breaking down the background model to smaller triangles might fix this banding effect and the other NVidia issue on second monitor reported on another thread. |
I think Edgar may be correct. I have seen this before in earlier versions of the aquarium on occasion. Generally with nVidia drivers only, and a change to 16 bit, or different driver versions usually corrects it.
What I don't know is why it had the effect with the aquarium only - when the same driver did not produce this result in other 3D apps at the time. Being as the aquarium has not been one of nVidia's priorities it was never fully resolved. This of course happened in other OS's than Vista previously, but in general terms has been "solved" to the extent that I haven't heard any complaints in the chatroom/help center that Morgan and I take care of in awhile so I figured it was for the most part resolved. I think that it's resurfacing in this instance is tied to the OS Vista and all its new coding, and what I would consider "relatively" inexperienced drivers overall time-wise for that OS. Personally my guess is that historically Vista is going to be heaped in as a "failed" OS along with Windows ME which was atrocious. If it was doing any good MS wouldn't be needing to produce commercials trying to convince people to use it. Just MPO though. |
Cliff,
Could you write what model monitors you have (again :o) and I'll do a quick verification. |
I can't be sure if that is meant as a joke or not, after all, they have been mentioned 4 times already, on this page! :o
If it was a joke, then it's even more obscure than my joke was here! ;) |
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