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[PO_MAK_249RIP]

Hi Guys,

Got my new PC up and running with no issues at all during build and installing windows, I'm running it on a Samsung LCD flat screen TV thru the HDMI socket and whilst the pictures amazing it is too bright!!

I've tried various TV picture settings and Nvidia settings but if I reduce the brightness/contrast I get white halo's round my text, I need to have both brightness and contrast on 'full' to avoid this happening? I've tried gamma settings etc, etc to no avail ?? I've read online that LCD's displays can act like this - anyone got any helpful tips or links to solve this ??

Cheers,

Mick

BTW,
i5 4690 3.5ghz Haswell
8GB 1600 Corsair Vengeance (didnt realise you had to set XMP mode in bios to get DRAM to 1600??)
Gigabyte Windforce GTX 960 OC
Corsair Carbide Spec-1 tower
ASRock fatal1ty H97 Performance MoBo
Windows 7 HP
Arctic Cooling fans
256gb Crucial SSD (CUP's on here and Win 7)
500gb seagate HDD (FSX on here)

Its like a ferrari compared to my old one - windows loads in under a minute from boot up!!

[western0221]

Usually TV set is set as very very more bright than PC monitors.

In my experience, low limit of brightness and half lower of contrast TV settings give me near picture from PC monitor.

[marcost]

Hi I had the same problems.

Firstly, make sure the input on the TV is set to PC (edit the input description, I thing mine says DVI/PC or similar). If you don't do this, the display is not optimised for PC

Then try reducing the backlight and brightness. Also, calibrate the screen within Windows, in W7 this is:

Control panel>colour management>advanced>calibrate display

Regards,

M

[PO_MAK_249RIP]

Cheers Marcost I will give that a go - I didnt have 'game mode' set it looks better now m8

Mick

[marcost]

No problem 

Here's my settings on the tv

Picture Standard
Backlight 18
Contrast 100
Brightness 59
Sharpness 66

Cheers

M

[PO_MAK_249RIP]

Hi M I researched this a lot online its a known issue with Win7, the problem with the white bloom round text appears to be because Win7 uses a slightly grey background color as opposed to XP's white - dont think i'll ever get rid of it unfortunately without buying a dedicated monitor !!