AMD, Intel and Nvidia driver issues and last recommended version

[huhn]

it effects windows media player.

[hotripper]

Originally Posted by Klaus1189

Added to first post

@all:
If that does not eliminate the stutter for you, set how many video frames shall be presented in advance to 1 (madVR settings->rendering->windowed mode and/or exclusive mode).

I found that fix.
Not that I want a cookie but yeah

[littleD]

Originally Posted by huhn

it effects windows media player.

What is your OS? On my win 10 machine WMP is half working garbage and i got used to this.

[huhn]

w10 1909.
i personally don't vare about WMP but that doesn't mean AMD shouldn't specifically if they have broken it and there QA is none existent.

[hogtop]

i have 441.20 nvidia 1050ti

and the Samsung Q9FN HDR TV screen
i must point out that HDR looks bad with MPC-HC x64
is the player can playing HDR ?

In Blue Ray the situation is much better

[Klaus1189]

You need madVR and can choose what you want:
- passthrough the HDR metadata to the screen (OSD will show HDR)
- tonemap the HDR metadata with madVR (OSD will not show HDR, becuase the TV isn'T receiving HDR metadata anymore, because madVR did the tonemapping)

MPC-BE can also convert HDR to SDR with internal filters, without the need of madVR and MPC-BE development is very active. See its thread for more infos or questions:
Media Player Classic - BE Win32/x64
Here you can download latest Nightly build, don't worry -> rocksolid
https://yadi.sk/d/r7JYQ2NjHvE4lA/Beta/1.5.4
https://yadi.sk/d/hlf1lfC8mKU58

[Klaus1189]

Nvidia released 441.28 Studio driver

[Klaus1189]

AMD released new Radeon Driver 19.11.3

[zapatista]

looking at the driver feedback information: for my nvidia 1060 gfx card, would this still be the best driver to use for madvr ? (win 8.1 64 bit)

398.11 2018-06-05 last version with correct HDR passthrough newer versions passthrough bogus metadata, for details see here | Notice: It seems that madVR doesn't switch to HDR mode anymore with newer updates of Windows 10

i mainly send video to my sony 1080 tv over hdmi in RGB Full

with my gfx card now being a 2 yo model, i would assume newer driver versions would mainly add features for the newer card models

[huhn]

why would you care about HDR passthrough if you don't have a HDR device.

if you want the last version with 3D support use that old driver and if not the newest is fine for SDR playback as far as everyone knows.

BTW. 3D is still "possible" with the newest driver but i said that before.

[zapatista]

because i am playing around with down converting some 4k HDR video files to 1080 with madvr , and my current 1080 tv can go up to 350 nits.

iirc early 1080 tv's usually only went up to about 150 - 180 nits , and most standard bluray mastering was (is ?) aimed at this . so with some of the 4k video down scaling to 1080 i am doing now, my next aim is to see if with some HDR files i can get a higher peak white in my 10 bit luma range to my tv.

disclaimer: i have no video expertise, just trying to squeeze a little further video improvement when playing some 4k HDR files

[SamuriHL]

But the point being your TV knows NOTHING about HDR, so passing correct metadata or not is irrelevant. What you're REALLY looking for is madvr's dynamic tone mapping solution so you can specify a real display nit that matches your tv and allow madvr to tonemap to that.

[Klaus1189]

Originally Posted by huhn

why would you care about HDR passthrough if you don't have a HDR device.

if you want the last version with 3D support use that old driver and if not the newest is fine for SDR playback as far as everyone knows.

BTW. 3D is still "possible" with the newest driver but i said that before.

What is exactly possible in 3D with newest drivers and what is not? Is it helpful for users so I should add it in first post?

[huhn]

every computer game that worked in the past works now too and even new games like outerworlds work in 3D.

i get madVR to trigger 3D on my screen but it doesn't want to output 3D.
my guess only 3d vision works now not the OS 3D implementation. someone claimed 3D movies worked too but i haven't tested in in a long time i don't even have an nvidia card connected to a 3D device anymore.
or in short everything is still present in the GPU driver for 3D the last part is maybe up to madshi again.

the first time a talked about that it got totally ignored so it can't be that important and i personally couldn't care less about 3D every time i tested 3D i did it without glasses because i don't own any.

[zapatista]

SamuriHL,

thx for the correction, i shall check on that feature

[Klaus1189]

Nvidia released 441.20 Game Ready Driver ... again?

[huhn]

adding support for a new GPU nothing wrong with that.

[Klaus1189]

But why not use Studio driver as basis and add support for the new card. Now there is a newer driver with an older version number. Looks odd nevertheless.

[huhn]

you don't want to give a gamer a studio driver.

[el Filou]

I'd say it depends on the release timing. The studio driver has the same game support as the last game ready driver released before it (release notes even list the recently added support for games), in addition to support for content creation apps.