Hi,
I just bought a laptop for light video editting and the display quality is shockingly bad for video and image fidelity, even on external display (compared to my 10 year old laptop which uses the GPU for display adapter), so I suspect it's because the new one uses the UHD?Is this to be expected with a UHD display adapter?Can I switch to using the GPU as the display adapter? If not, how common is it that laptops force using UHD over GPU? And how can I tell before buying, to avoid this problem?
I tried googling, but no luck.
Computer:
Acer Aspire 5 (A515-51G-53V6), Intel i5-8250u, Nvidia MX150, Win 10
Problem:
Display looks like it was recorded to VHS and then ported back to digital, regardless of what screen I view it on. Video and images have intense garish colors, high contrast, edgy sharpness, poor color mixing. And when using digital TV as external display, text and windows have edgy sharp lines and edges. (None of this is the case with the old laptop with GPU display adapter)
- - - Here's What I have tried:
1. updated the drivers for the GPU, and the UHD (and windows itself)
2. adjusted Intel color settings on the Internal Display, External Display, and the TV picture settings (I spent hours doing this, it's somewhat better now on both internal display and the TV, but "she's given it all she can cap'n, and she can't give no more"
4. checked to see if the GPU can be used as the display adapter, but it seems the UHD is the only option
5. opened media player application by right clicking and selecting "run with Graphichs processor" - looks the same
6. opened BIOS/UEFI to try to switch the display adapter manually (but it doesn't mention the display there at all)
I just bought a laptop for light video editting and the display quality is shockingly bad for video and image fidelity, even on external display (compared to my 10 year old laptop which uses the GPU for display adapter), so I suspect it's because the new one uses the UHD?Is this to be expected with a UHD display adapter?Can I switch to using the GPU as the display adapter? If not, how common is it that laptops force using UHD over GPU? And how can I tell before buying, to avoid this problem?
I tried googling, but no luck.
Computer:
Acer Aspire 5 (A515-51G-53V6), Intel i5-8250u, Nvidia MX150, Win 10
Problem:
Display looks like it was recorded to VHS and then ported back to digital, regardless of what screen I view it on. Video and images have intense garish colors, high contrast, edgy sharpness, poor color mixing. And when using digital TV as external display, text and windows have edgy sharp lines and edges. (None of this is the case with the old laptop with GPU display adapter)
- - - Here's What I have tried:
1. updated the drivers for the GPU, and the UHD (and windows itself)
2. adjusted Intel color settings on the Internal Display, External Display, and the TV picture settings (I spent hours doing this, it's somewhat better now on both internal display and the TV, but "she's given it all she can cap'n, and she can't give no more"
4. checked to see if the GPU can be used as the display adapter, but it seems the UHD is the only option
5. opened media player application by right clicking and selecting "run with Graphichs processor" - looks the same
6. opened BIOS/UEFI to try to switch the display adapter manually (but it doesn't mention the display there at all)
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