Today I Learned...

[Spalls Hurgenson]

Today I Learned...

... that Nvidia's driver software has a "digital vibrance" feature
built into it.

Well, okay, I probably didn't learn this today; I'm sure I noticed
this previously. What I learned today is how much I ENJOY the digital
vibrance feature.

Now, I admit, I like over-saturated colors. It's why games like
"FarCry" were so appealing to me; all that lush, overly verdant green
does something to my brain. I tweak the saturation settings in many
games already. Still, seeing this option was mouth-watering.

And I gotta say, it does what it promises; the colors look much more
vibrant. Arguably it isn't a very accurate colour profile, but that's
not really that important to me I am when fighting demons on Mars (or
whatever). I'm sure many people find the extra colors just too much...
but I like it. It helps that the monitor its applied to is old and
fading; the extra 'oompf' from the digital vibrance gives that screen
a new lease on life (it's a per-monitor setting, fortunately). But I
left the other monitors - you know, the ones I actually use for work -
untouched.

Anyway, it was such a nifty find for me I couldn't help but share my
joy. It's little things like that which help make life bearable, after
all.

[PW]

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How do you access it? Is it in the GeForce/NVidia control panel?

I guess I could look hehe :-)

-pw

[PW]

On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:36:36 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:

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I found it! I just went from 50% to 82% and like it so far!

-pw

[JAB]

I have it on 60% as I find going much higher than that leads to the
colours just being too bright for me. I'd still recommend that people
give it a try to see what they think.

[Mike S.]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 10:48:45 +0100, JAB <no...@nochance.com> wrote:

>I have it on 60% as I find going much higher than that leads to the
>colours just being too bright for me. I'd still recommend that people
>give it a try to see what they think.

60% is good. I set it to 100 at first but my Windows desktop looked
silly with the overly bright colors.

[Justisaur]

Can you turn it down to get noir?

I tend to like grittier faded graphics like in the Fallouts.

- Justisaur

[Rin Stowleigh]

There is a utility out there for nvidia cards that allows you to tweak
digital vibrance on a per game basis, it's just I'm careful what I
install on my systems these days. The source code was on gitbhub and
I did do a quick (literally 60 seconds) view through the code to look
for anything sketchy and didn't see anything alarming except the
inclusion of some DLL that I was unclear on where it was coming from.
Again I didn't read the docs and it's not an indication that its a
problem, just saying downloader beware about random free utilities on
the web.

[Spalls Hurgenson]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 06:49:35 -0700 (PDT), Justisaur
<just...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Tuesday, July 26, 2022 at 2:48:48 AM UTC-7, JAB wrote:
>> On 25/07/2022 23:36, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

>> > Today I Learned...
>> > ... that Nvidia's driver software has a "digital vibrance" feature
>> > built into it.

>Can you turn it down to get noir?
>I tend to like grittier faded graphics like in the Fallouts.

Yes. The default is 50%; cranking it down to 0% removes all saturation
and turns everything black'n'white (well, greyscale); between those
two extremes the colours become increasingly desaturated. Around 15%
you still have colour but it looks more 'Fallout-y". I don't think the
desaturation effect is quite as nice as its opposite - it feels
rougher and more apparently manipulated - but see for yourself. Like
many others, I find that 60% is the 'sweet spot' for people who like
warmer colours.

Most monitors/tvs offer a similar feature too, but - for whatever
reason - I found the digital vibrancy thing in nvidia to be more
satisfying.

Anyway, its in the nvidia control panel->Display->Adjust desktop
colour settings section if you want to give it a look. I didn't
mention the where earlier because I didn't think anyone would be
interested.

[Mike S.]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 11:22:30 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Anyway, its in the nvidia control panel->Display->Adjust desktop
>colour settings section if you want to give it a look. I didn't
>mention the where earlier because I didn't think anyone would be
>interested.

I love when the color on my display pops and it sounded like playing
with that option might do just that so I was definitely interested.
Admittedly though, I could not find the option so I had to goggle it.

However, playing with this option can screw with color accuracy. You
can use this website to compare running at 50% vs 60% or whatever. -->

http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/contrast.php

According to this site, my colors are more accurate at 50% but I do
not care. I like the way they look better at 60%. YMMV of course.

[PW]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:17:48 -0400, Mike S. <Mik...@nowhere.com>
wrote:

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Good find Mike!

My monitors all passed the visual test.

-pw