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Aliasing/Shimmering in multiple devices

ChildOfLuna

ChildOfLuna

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For more than 4 years I have been facing multiple problems namely distorted graphics, jagged lines on the texture similar to aliasing but cannot be removed with any setting. It affects not only games, but even videos , etc. videos that shouldn't be like this in a pc "uninfected" with this thing.

I have swaped 2 diffrent computers to get rid of this problem. I use to run an i5 7400 and 1050 ti with the board that I had before gigabyte b250m-d2v
I have upgraded a year ago to an 3060 ti and a ryzen 7 4700g with completly diffrent components and I still have the problem...Whats more I have an old Laptop that has the problem as well. The old laptop that I use has an i7-4510u and 840m gpu for notebooks and STILL Has the problem.

IMG_0083 (streamable.com) A video registration with my camera of the problem, sry for the bad quality. Also this is the original video of the registration Cat in train station - YouTube
 
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from the specs you've told us, you are using nvidia gpus
did you change any settings in nvidia control panel? for example set it to performance mode that could result in jagged lines, thats the only thing i can think of
 
Hyderz said:
from the specs you've told us, you are using nvidia gpus
did you change any settings in nvidia control panel? for example set it to performance mode that could result in jagged lines, thats the only thing i can think of
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I messed with some settings in Nvidia control panel and with no visible effect.

The only setting that sort of helped was using DSR-Factors 4x 3840 x 2160 near 4k res. It felt somehow better in games but not fixed by any margin.
I remember before this issue I could play games at 1280 x 768 with minimal antialias on and didnt saw any jagged edge. Now even on 4k Its no use.

I forgot to add because it sounds even crazier but I have this issue even on television, television chanel on all my tvs, even 4k tv
grap (streamable.com) Here is an example. The chanel is skysports
 
Did you change brightness and contrast of your monitors at all? I have found that factory they're all too bright for normal viewing; I set them at 63 brightness (down from 100) and to 45 contrast (down from 50).
Additionally you can go in nv control panel and at "Adjust video color settings" you switch from "with videon player" to "with nvidia..." and "Apply" and then switch back to "with video player" and "Apply"; while it's counter-intuitive, that will throw a list of brightness and contrast settings into windows registry/nv driver that upon next windows restart might result in better picture on your screen. Try it and report back.
 
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If a video looks weird on all devices the "problem" is with the video itself. Your clip looks the same as the youtube video. Do you have more examples?
 
Frick said:
If a video looks weird on all devices the "problem" is with the video itself. Your clip looks the same as the youtube video. Do you have more examples?
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Its the shimmering line on that video not visible ? I asked half of my friends and some of them said they could see it, others couldnt so its really weird. Dont think its normal.
 
I see it in the original video as well.
 
ChildOfLuna said:
Its the shimmering line on that video not visible ? I asked half of my friends and some of them said they could see it, others couldnt so its really weird. Dont think its normal.
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If by shimmerling line you mean the gap between the panels, yeah it's there, and in the youtube video as well. It's an artifact of compression, it's just how things work. If people say they don't see it it's because they don't think about it.
 
I watched all 3 videos in the above post and none really seems jagged, it's all smoothed out. Did you install any custom color profiles in your monitor's windows color management system?
Try to open Windows Color management and reset defaults...
 
pavle said:
I watched all 3 videos in the above post and none really seems jagged, it's all smoothed out. Did you install any custom color profiles in your monitor's windows color management system?
Try to open Windows Color management and reset defaults...
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Its in all default. The only thing that sort of helps like I said a few post above is going near 4k resolution with DSR-Factors.
Its really weird because some of you can see the jagged edges in my video registrations, other cant it seems
 
ChildOfLuna said:
IMG_0124 (streamable.com) Here is an example of a game with this problem, apex legends, graphic settings on high, hd and still jagged edges and even texture pop-in if you look carefully.
IMG_0086 (streamable.com) another youtube registration video with this problem A sweet cat who is always accompanied by this male cat. - YouTube Original video
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Low resolution videos, so hard to tell, but I still think this is one of those perception things. You've noticed some common artifacts of digital video/games and can't stop noticing them, which is why others can't seem to see the same things as you do. In the cat videos there are a bunch of jagged lines, because that is often how digital videos look.
 
@Frick Maybe you are right but still if this is how often digital videos look wouldnt more people have noticed these things and complain about it ? I Remember before this mysterious issue hit me I never saw things like these in youtube videos or digital media and jaggies on games were easy fixable by settings. Even in this thread some of you seem to see the jagged edge only in one specific video while others see them in all videos I shown, so its a little strange.
 
Make sure your display's and driver control panel's both have no settings set for 'sharpening'. Note: it's not always clearly labeled in monitor OSDs.
I've seen it become more common for some artificial sharpening to be the default.

Also, it being a post-process and/or post-framebuffer effect, means noone can see it in recordings. Not to mention, most compression schemes for video would obscure those artifacts you speak of anyway.
 
One option would also be to install your monitor driver. It includes custom, monitor appropriate, color management profile.
 
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