madVR - high quality video renderer (GPU assisted)

[Asmodian]

Do I need a hdr compatible display for the option to show up?

Yes. :)

[oddball]

I've not heard much from Madshi lately. Hope he's OK.

[pirlouy]

So sweet of you. If you're that much a fanboy, you can spy his account, and you'll be reassured.
But maybe you meant you haven't heard much from a new version from Madshi lately. xD

[Goeggel]

Seems like you have desktop composition disabled. D3D11 presentation doesn't work without it.

This gives me a headache. Still no D3D11. Here's what I have tried so far:
- no difference when disabling or enabling "present several frames in advance"
- no difference when disabling or enabling "disable desktop composition"
- removed madVR including all registry entries and settings.bin. Reinstalled it and enabled "use direct3D 11 for..." -> no luck
- Problem also occurs with Media Player Classic. So it doesn't seem to be related to Zoom Player.

Are there any settings in Windows 7 or Nvidia display driver which could interfere?

[sneaker_ger]

Do you have the Windows 7 Platform Update?

[Goeggel]

Yes, I guess so. I have Windows 7 64bit SP1 with all updates since. When I try to manually install Windows6.1-KB2670838-x64.msu (I think that's the platform update) it tells me that it is already installed.

[sneaker_ger]

Aero/DWM is enabled?
https://superuser.com/questions/479576/windows-7-easiest-way-to-tell-whether-aero-dwm-is-enabled

[Goeggel]

Aero/DWM is enabled?
https://superuser.com/questions/479576/windows-7-easiest-way-to-tell-whether-aero-dwm-is-enabled

Yes yes yes that's it! The corresponding DWM service was deactivated. With the service running I now have D3D11.

Many thanks for all your help here! A great community! Much appreciated.

:thanks:

[cokeefe]

Aero/DWM is enabled?
https://superuser.com/questions/479576/windows-7-easiest-way-to-tell-whether-aero-dwm-is-enabled

Thank you, thank you! I have been trying to figure this out for the last two hours. I had switched to non-Aero Classic desktop, and switching back to Aero allowed D3D11 again in MadVR.

Naturally, I had also done a bunch of updates so the red herrings were running wild. :o

[Helios61]

Hi madshi, Hi community,
unfortunately i've noticed some issues with madVR (?). I hope, sombody can help and give me some support.

Global Settings:
Windows 10 PRO / 1703
Intel HD-Grafik 630 / current driver
madVR v0.91.11
LAV Filters 0.70.2
HTPC -> Yamaha RX-V681 -> LG49UB856V (HDMI Connection)

1. In MPC-HC HD (LAV) Audio Bitstreaming doesn't work with refreshrate changer (madVR) enabled. This issue i've already reported in Mediaportal Forum and sebastiii could fix it in MediaPortal ->Link (https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/browse/MP1-4881)<-. With refreshrate changer disabled or EVR all is working fine.

2. With MediaPortal / madVR my 4K movies seems to be downscaled, ->
https://picload.org/thumbnail/rwdpddaa/2017-08-041_1.jpg (https://picload.org/view/rwdpddaa/2017-08-041_1.jpg.html)
although display resolution is reported by TV as 4K. Playback of the same movie with MPC-HC and the same madVR settings isn't downscaled. Is it a wrong setting or am i doing something wrong?

3. Playback of frame packed 3D movies (MVC) unfortunately is completely broken in MPC-HC and Mediaportal (LAV 3D Plugin installed). If i start a 3D mkv, i get heavy flickering and stuttering. I have uploaded a 1 minute video (very bad, but you can see, what i mean) to dropbox ->Link (https://www.dropbox.com/s/i45e56vjoioxqau/VID_20170802_151350.mp4?dl=0)<-. Playback with my "old" HD 4600 and similar driver settings is working fine.

As i said before, it would be great, if somebody could help me to find a solution.

Thanks in advance
Helios

[nevcairiel]

2. With MediaPortal / madVR my 4K movies seems to be downscaled, ->
https://picload.org/thumbnail/rwdpddaa/2017-08-041_1.jpg (https://picload.org/view/rwdpddaa/2017-08-041_1.jpg.html)
although display resolution is reported by TV as 4K. Playback of the same movie with MPC-HC and the same madVR settings isn't downscaled. Is it a wrong setting or am i doing something wrong?


This is usually a result of the player not being High-DPI-aware, so Windows pretends its running on a lower resolution and upscales it afterwards.
Basically, this needs to be fixed in your player. It needs to handle High-DPI scenarios.

[Helios61]

Thanks nevcairiel for your answer.


3. Playback of frame packed 3D movies (MVC) unfortunately is completely broken in MPC-HC and Mediaportal (LAV 3D Plugin installed). If i start a 3D mkv, i get heavy flickering and stuttering. I have uploaded a 1 minute video (very bad, but you can see, what i mean) to dropbox ->Link (https://www.dropbox.com/s/i45e56vjoioxqau/VID_20170802_151350.mp4?dl=0)<-. Playback with my "old" HD 4600 and similar driver settings is working fine.

After investigating a little bit more i am able to answer this question by myself. It is simply not possible with my Motherboard and Win10 -> ****Intel® InTru™ 3D is only supported under Windows® 8 / 8 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit ->Link (http://www.asrock.com/MB/Intel/Fatal1ty%20Z270%20Gaming-ITXac/index.asp#Specification)<-

I should better read the specifications before i buy :mad:.
So only not working audio bitstreaming is left.

[FDisk80]

Anyone else seeing some strange stutter in video after updating to nvidia 384.94 drivers?
Looks like it's happening once and than everything is back to normal. It almost looks like the hard drive is buffering something for 3 seconds and video is running at 10fps or so.

[Georgel]

Hey Everyone!
I've been out of the loop for a while now,

What type of NGU is closest to Softcubic, or rather, what type of NGU is recommended for Anime if I want smooth textures and the least aliasing possible?

Thank you!

[ryrynz]

Just enable it and see.. Take you two minutes. Hint. Not ever NGU sharp.

[Siso]

Hey Everyone!
I've been out of the loop for a while now,

What type of NGU is closest to Softcubic, or rather, what type of NGU is recommended for Anime if I want smooth textures and the least aliasing possible?

Thank you!

Some people say NGU AA :)

[ryrynz]

Anyone else seeing some strange stutter in video after updating to nvidia 384.94 drivers?


For some reason I had sync drifting happening last night, my CPU wasn't loaded much only ~15% with ffdshow/Avisynth enabled so I don't think it was that. Will see if it continues to do it and maybe roll back.

Not ever NGU sharp.

Actually NGU sharp doubling on anime even with "full hd" content on my full hd screen and downscaled using bicubic 150 looks quite nice, I just wouldn't use it for low res stuff.

[Sebastiii]

This is usually a result of the player not being High-DPI-aware, so Windows pretends its running on a lower resolution and upscales it afterwards.
Basically, this needs to be fixed in your player. It needs to handle High-DPI scenarios.

Thanks for your hint, we will try to correct this :)

[Sebastiii]

Hi madshi, Hi community,
unfortunately i've noticed some issues with madVR (?). I hope, sombody can help and give me some support.

Global Settings:
Windows 10 PRO / 1703
Intel HD-Grafik 630 / current driver
madVR v0.91.11
LAV Filters 0.70.2
HTPC -> Yamaha RX-V681 -> LG49UB856V (HDMI Connection)

1. In MPC-HC HD (LAV) Audio Bitstreaming doesn't work with refreshrate changer (madVR) enabled. This issue i've already reported in Mediaportal Forum and sebastiii could fix it in MediaPortal ->Link (https://issues.team-mediaportal.com/browse/MP1-4881)<-. With refreshrate changer disabled or EVR all is working fine.

Thanks in advance
Helios

Hey :)
I can explain what i have seen and doing a workaround on MP.
Somehow, when a refresh is done for this GPU and on 4K resolution only, the Intel Audio/Video is reinit quickly.

So what was happened on MP, it was lost to not find the correct Audio device, so the workaround was to add a delay before start the playback (in fact a delay to analyse again the Audio renderer device) then Audio device is correct and playback too.

The base of the issue seems to be drivers or something and didn't happen for HD res (1920x1080).

[Oguignant]

Hi, I need a little help here ...:helpful:
This happened to me several times. If I advance the movie many times, the render times are increased (from 30ms to 75 or 90ms) and never again are as at the beginning (For example the normal render time is 24ms in fullscreen for this movie and it increases to 90ms or more than 100ms).

This happens with luma quadrupling set to direct quadruple -> very high for 720p movies:

http://i.imgur.com/jdg1kypl.png

I try other versions of Madvr, also re install nvidia drivers, nothing works. The only way is to re start Windows or disabling luma quadrupling. Anyone have an idea what may be going on? I already tried to check basic things, but I can not find what the problem may be. I do not know if I explain well what the problem is. Any ideas?

Hard config
Alienware 17R4 Core i7 7820hk - 32gb RAM - ssd 960 Pro 1tb
Graphic Amp + Aorus GTX 1080ti Xtreme
Soft
Windows 10 Pro + K-lite Code Pack 13.4.0 + Madvr v0.91.11 with 3DLut file
Nvidia Drivers 384.94
MSI Afterburner (last version)

Before, normal render time
http://i.imgur.com/ed1BMR1l.png

After advance the movie many times (3 or 4 times)
http://i.imgur.com/zMcW2kwl.png

Thank you in advance!!!

[varekai]

Using madVR + PotPlayer
Should I enable rendering/general settings/
-->use Direct3D 11 for presentation<--
on a Win7 Geforce GTX 960 SLI setup?
If so what's the benefit?
Thanks...

[Asmodian]

If I advance the movie many times, the render times are increased (from 30ms to 75 or 90ms) and never again are as at the beginning (For example the normal render time is 24ms in fullscreen for this movie and it increases to 90ms or more than 100ms).

I notice that every one of your rendering times doubles so it really looks like your GPU is down-clocking, it is possible to have the GPU clock get forced to a very low value by the drivers. You don't see anything odd in Afterburner?

-->use Direct3D 11 for presentation<--
on a Win7 Geforce GTX 960 SLI setup?
If so what's the benefit?
Thanks...

madVR hates SLI, for what it is worth, you get better performance with it actually disabled. Disabled for only madVR or the video player is not enough. :(

DX11 allows 10-bit in FSE mode (or, with Win10's new HDR mode, also in windowed) and is a little more responsive. Nothing significant, usually. Check out the link in my signature for more info. :)

[madshi]

There might be a new madVR version next weekend, but not this. I'll reply to all your posts when the next madVR version is released. Please have a bit patience until then.

For now, I've something for you to play with:

http://madshi.net/madCustomRes.zip

It's currently a standalone tool, soon to be integrated into madVR. This tool allows you to create custom resolutions, refresh rates and timings, with Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs. The tool uses private APIs of the 3 GPU manufacturers. I think my GUI is nicer than those of the GPU manufacturers, plus mine has some extra features. Once I integrated this into madVR, I'm also planning to automatically measure your display modes and suggest optimized custom timings, so you can get smooth playback without any frame drops/repeats, without using Reclock.

Unfortunately the private GPU APIs are all buggy. I've already posted bug reports to AMD and Nvidia, Intel to follow soon. So it will be an uphill battle to make all this work as expected. But I hope we'll get there, eventually. Biggest problems right now are that Nvidia only seems to accept *new* custom modes, for resolutions/refresh rates that don't exist yet, but Nvidia doesn't seem to allow timing overrides for standard modes like 1080p23, at least not on my PC. And Intel has serious problems, too. AMD is the least problematic, but not bug free, either.

Please use this at your own risk!!

You *could* end up with a display mode which the display doesn't sync to. In that case if a reboot doesn't help you may have to fix the problem in safe mode. I recommend that when creating custom timings that you don't create them while you're in the same mode, just to be safe. So e.g. if you want to customize 1080p23 timings, don't do this while your GPU is in 1080p23 mode. Instead switch to e.g. 1080p59 mode while you're working on 1080p23 timings. This way you can after your modifications switch to the new 1080p23 timings "on trial" and the OS will auto switch back if you don't confirm the change within 15 or 20 seconds.

Feedback welcome.

[varekai]

@Asmodian
OK thanks for the info, appreciated.
Been using madVR with PotPlayer and GPU's at SLI for a long time and all formats I throw at it looks great. Will do some testing and see if anything changes for the better.

Regards

[Aleksoid1978]

madshi
Detect only first monitor - so can't set params for second and other monitor/TV

[madshi]

Move the window to the secondary monitor then it should auto switch to that. Once it's integrated into the madVR settings dialog, it will automatically work for the display you've selected, of course. For now the tool affects the monitor it's positioned on.

[hajosattila]

hi Guys!

I would like to create a 3D LUT profile for madVR, however I am not sure if I should leave the Tone curve under the Calibration menu at "As measured" or shall I rather go with the "Rec. 1886" option. What's the difference?
I would also really appreciate if you could take a look at my other settings if they are right.

TV: Samsung UE55H6500 (FHD) | Colorimeter: X-Rite i1Display Pro | Source: Blu-ray REMUX (FHD) | latest madVR and MPC-HC nightly

Thank you very much.

sorry for my English...

http://i.imgur.com/78okPYvl.png (http://imgur.com/78okPYv)

http://i.imgur.com/IFCz2BQl.png (http://imgur.com/IFCz2BQ)

http://i.imgur.com/aAjMEnol.png (http://imgur.com/aAjMEno)

[huhn]

leave it "as measured".
the "calibration" for your display is just reading your display and is not calibration that's done by creating the 3D LUT. (very simplified)

the default settings for the madVR 3D LUT are in general correct.

[hajosattila]

leave it "as measured".
the "calibration" for your display is just reading your display and is not calibration that's done by creating the 3D LUT. (very simplified)

the default settings for the madVR 3D LUT are in general correct.

Thank you huhn!:)

[SweetLow]

Unless SmoothMotion accounts for that of course and allows tiny deviation without blending.
As i remember madshi wrote that madvr doesn't blend frames if target frame have very high proportion of blending (say for example 99% of first source frame and 1% of second frame) but i don't remember if he said exact limit. May be on next week he will say more.

[x7007]

Hi,

when I'm trying to play 4K@24FPS HEVC-BT.2020 Life_of_ Pi_draft_Ultra-HD_HDR which is like a demo of life of pi . And I enable windows HDR , running with potplayer+ madVR 91.11 I have black screen when trying to go Full Screen Windowed mode, when staying windowed mode everything fine. when I'm with teamviewer trying to run the movie everything is fine in Full Screen Windowed mode.

Nvidia 1080 384.94
LG55C6

What could be the issue ?

[Dorohedoro]

There might be a new madVR version next weekend, but not this. I'll reply to all your posts when the next madVR version is released. Please have a bit patience until then.

For now, I've something for you to play with:

http://madshi.net/madCustomRes.zip

It's currently a standalone tool, soon to be integrated into madVR. This tool allows you to create custom resolutions, refresh rates and timings, with Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs. The tool uses private APIs of the 3 GPU manufacturers. I think my GUI is nicer than those of the GPU manufacturers, plus mine has some extra features. Once I integrated this into madVR, I'm also planning to automatically measure your display modes and suggest optimized custom timings, so you can get smooth playback without any frame drops/repeats, without using Reclock.

Unfortunately the private GPU APIs are all buggy. I've already posted bug reports to AMD and Nvidia, Intel to follow soon. So it will be an uphill battle to make all this work as expected. But I hope we'll get there, eventually. Biggest problems right now are that Nvidia only seems to accept *new* custom modes, for resolutions/refresh rates that don't exist yet, but Nvidia doesn't seem to allow timing overrides for standard modes like 1080p23, at least not on my PC. And Intel has serious problems, too. AMD is the least problematic, but not bug free, either.

Please use this at your own risk!!

You *could* end up with a display mode which the display doesn't sync to. In that case if a reboot doesn't help you may have to fix the problem in safe mode. I recommend that when creating custom timings that you don't create them while you're in the same mode, just to be safe. So e.g. if you want to customize 1080p23 timings, don't do this while your GPU is in 1080p23 mode. Instead switch to e.g. 1080p59 mode while you're working on 1080p23 timings. This way you can after your modifications switch to the new 1080p23 timings "on trial" and the OS will auto switch back if you don't confirm the change within 15 or 20 seconds.

Feedback welcome.


My god, this is a dream come true, please show me a donation link, I mean it.

[clsid]

You *could* end up with a display mode which the display doesn't sync to. In that case if a reboot doesn't help you may have to fix the problem in safe mode. I recommend that when creating custom timings that you don't create them while you're in the same mode, just to be safe. So e.g. if you want to customize 1080p23 timings, don't do this while your GPU is in 1080p23 mode. Instead switch to e.g. 1080p59 mode while you're working on 1080p23 timings. This way you can after your modifications switch to the new 1080p23 timings "on trial" and the OS will auto switch back if you don't confirm the change within 15 or 20 seconds.Maybe it would be a wise idea to force the user to switch to a different refreshrate first when attempting to edit the active one. Or at least show a big fat warning.

What does "reset gpu" do? I assume revert to default settings. A tooltip would be useful.

[sauma144]

There might be a new madVR version next weekend, but not this. I'll reply to all your posts when the next madVR version is released. Please have a bit patience until then.

For now, I've something for you to play with:

http://madshi.net/madCustomRes.zip

It's currently a standalone tool, soon to be integrated into madVR. This tool allows you to create custom resolutions, refresh rates and timings, with Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs. The tool uses private APIs of the 3 GPU manufacturers. I think my GUI is nicer than those of the GPU manufacturers, plus mine has some extra features. Once I integrated this into madVR, I'm also planning to automatically measure your display modes and suggest optimized custom timings, so you can get smooth playback without any frame drops/repeats, without using Reclock.

Unfortunately the private GPU APIs are all buggy. I've already posted bug reports to AMD and Nvidia, Intel to follow soon. So it will be an uphill battle to make all this work as expected. But I hope we'll get there, eventually. Biggest problems right now are that Nvidia only seems to accept *new* custom modes, for resolutions/refresh rates that don't exist yet, but Nvidia doesn't seem to allow timing overrides for standard modes like 1080p23, at least not on my PC. And Intel has serious problems, too. AMD is the least problematic, but not bug free, either.

Please use this at your own risk!!

You *could* end up with a display mode which the display doesn't sync to. In that case if a reboot doesn't help you may have to fix the problem in safe mode. I recommend that when creating custom timings that you don't create them while you're in the same mode, just to be safe. So e.g. if you want to customize 1080p23 timings, don't do this while your GPU is in 1080p23 mode. Instead switch to e.g. 1080p59 mode while you're working on 1080p23 timings. This way you can after your modifications switch to the new 1080p23 timings "on trial" and the OS will auto switch back if you don't confirm the change within 15 or 20 seconds.

Feedback welcome.

I thought this would be a one-click and forget setup automatically done by madVR itself. Maybe a video tutorial would be useful for noobs.

P.S. It works perfectly after gpu reset and reboot. ;)

[Thunderbolt8]

I thought this would be a one-click and forget setup automatically done by madVR itself. Maybe a video tutorial would be useful for noobs.It's currently a standalone tool, soon to be integrated into madVR

[mitchmalibu]

For now, I've something for you to play with:

http://madshi.net/madCustomRes.zip

...

Feedback welcome.

Hey madshi, great to see that this project is coming to fruition. Here's a bit of feedback.

OS : Win10 with creator's update
GPU : GTX 1070 (latest stable drivers)
Monitor : LG OLED B6V TV
Media setup : MPC-BE x64 (latest official beta), madvr (latest stable), lav filters (latest stable)

I used the tool to change these 5 resolutions:
- 2160p23
- 2160p24
- 2160p50
- 2160p59
- 2160p60

Every resolution was available if I unchecked the "show native res mode only". I was able to go into the edit window and get a picture if I clicked "test mode". But I did get an error upon applying the settings on some resolutions:
- 2160p23, 2160p50 worked (custom timings applied and the app asked for a reboot or gpu reset)
- 2160p24, 2160p59, 2160p60 were a no go (generic unknown driver error)

Did some quick testing with the new 2160p23 resolution : the clock deviation reported by madvr definitely went down (-0.00033% when stabilized) and it announced a frame repeated/dropped every hour insted of the usual 4/5min without Reclock. Weird thing though: I had to use FSE to get these stats, using windowed fullscreen was giving me the same clock deviation, but i was getting a frame repeat every 5 minutes. The new resolution was used by calling the madvr refresh rate switcher (2160p23), or launching the video with it already applied.

Quick note : by using FSE, I lose HDR completely, using either the nvidia or win10 API.

Don't hesitate to ask for more feedback / tests, I'd be glad to help.

Anyway, keep up the great work !

edit : a way / tool to reset every changes made would come in handy too !

[Georgel]

Some people say NGU AA :)

Thank you very much! I wanted to try something from the NGU palette since there might be some imrovements over bicubic smooth for anime and low res content :)

Just enable it and see.. Take you two minutes. Hint. Not ever NGU sharp.

I wouldn't use NGU sharp with movies either, unless having a large screen and a good distance from the screen. I am staying 0.5m away from a 25 screen, so sharp filters are a tad too strong for those eyes :rolleyes:

[Georgel]

There might be a new madVR version next weekend, but not this. I'll reply to all your posts when the next madVR version is released. Please have a bit patience until then.

For now, I've something for you to play with:

http://madshi.net/madCustomRes.zip

It's currently a standalone tool, soon to be integrated into madVR. This tool allows you to create custom resolutions, refresh rates and timings, with Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs. The tool uses private APIs of the 3 GPU manufacturers. I think my GUI is nicer than those of the GPU manufacturers, plus mine has some extra features. Once I integrated this into madVR, I'm also planning to automatically measure your display modes and suggest optimized custom timings, so you can get smooth playback without any frame drops/repeats, without using Reclock.

Unfortunately the private GPU APIs are all buggy. I've already posted bug reports to AMD and Nvidia, Intel to follow soon. So it will be an uphill battle to make all this work as expected. But I hope we'll get there, eventually. Biggest problems right now are that Nvidia only seems to accept *new* custom modes, for resolutions/refresh rates that don't exist yet, but Nvidia doesn't seem to allow timing overrides for standard modes like 1080p23, at least not on my PC. And Intel has serious problems, too. AMD is the least problematic, but not bug free, either.

Please use this at your own risk!!

You *could* end up with a display mode which the display doesn't sync to. In that case if a reboot doesn't help you may have to fix the problem in safe mode. I recommend that when creating custom timings that you don't create them while you're in the same mode, just to be safe. So e.g. if you want to customize 1080p23 timings, don't do this while your GPU is in 1080p23 mode. Instead switch to e.g. 1080p59 mode while you're working on 1080p23 timings. This way you can after your modifications switch to the new 1080p23 timings "on trial" and the OS will auto switch back if you don't confirm the change within 15 or 20 seconds.

Feedback welcome.

Super cool job, Madshi!

Will test and let you know how it works!

Hope you have fun in there while working on the next version of madVR, the current one has proven to be tons of fun to use! :)

[Fullmetal Encoder]

Please use this at your own risk!!

You *could* end up with a display mode which the display doesn't sync to.

Forgive me, but how would this ability help those of us with monitors that can only operate at 60hz? I'm a little worried that this might fry my monitor.

Incidentally, I was looking at the specs for some modern LCD monitors and was pleasantly surprised to see that more and more of them are natively supporting standard video modes like 24p at affordable prices.

[Oguignant]

I notice that every one of your rendering times doubles so it really looks like your GPU is down-clocking, it is possible to have the GPU clock get forced to a very low value by the drivers. You don't see anything odd in Afterburner?


I do not see anything strange. In fact, when this happens, I quit Afterburner And the problem continues. I only OC: Core Voltage, Power limit, Temp limit and Core Clock. Dont touch Memory Clock (I think it does not make sense)

http://i.imgur.com/lz9ACZal.png

Only happens with luma quadrupling set to direct quadruple -> very high.

it's strange

[Oguignant]

There might be a new madVR version next weekend, but not this. I'll reply to all your posts when the next madVR version is released. Please have a bit patience until then.

For now, I've something for you to play with:

http://madshi.net/madCustomRes.zip


impressive! But I'll wait for it to be safe to use! :cool: Does not work with the Intel HD 630 integrated graphics card drv version: 22.20.16.4708, says this when I try to set 23mhz

http://i.imgur.com/iVZq3fel.png
http://i.imgur.com/Q6qO2Z1l.png

[ryrynz]

Can we avoid the constant full quoting of madshi's post plz (counted four of you so far) Don't want to see constant quoting of the new madvr ver post next week, it's quite unnecessary, cheers.

[Oguignant]

Can we avoid the constant full quoting of madshi's post plz (counted four of you so far) Don't want to see constant quoting of the new madvr ver post next week, it's quite unnecessary, cheers.

done!

[nevcairiel]

Forgive me, but how would this ability help those of us with monitors that can only operate at 60hz? I'm a little worried that this might fry my monitor

It doesn't.
In reality this is generally more useful for TVs, not desktop screens.

[leeperry]

Sweet, thanks for the update but still no WASAPI and no 25@24 so I guess next step is an audio renderer? https://static.dealabs.com/images/smiley/emoji_popcorn.png

Also, I recently upgraded from an i1d2 that didn't age so well to a CMUNDIS and now we're talking, same harware as the i1pro and man is this accurate huh........which leads to my question: many movies still appear to be mastered with SMPTE-C primaries(TDKR comes to mind as everyone looks green in REC.709) but once your display is dead-on, is it my imagination or you can easily pick the right gamut as it'll provide visibly higher CR? Sometimes one or the other wins depending on the movie and very often wrong one also either gives pale colors(REC709 movies in SMPTE-C gamut) or green faces(the opposite).

[hannes69]

Originally Posted by Fullmetal Encoder:
Forgive me, but how would this ability help those of us with monitors that can only operate at 60hz? I'm a little worried that this might fry my monitor

It doesn't.
In reality this is generally more useful for TVs, not desktop screens.

I wouldn´t be too pessimistic about that. You´ll never fry your monitor because of using custom refresh rates. Maybe there are monitors that are really only supporting 60Hz, but I think that many monitors have some kind of backwards compatibility to old CRT resolutions. You will of course not use non-native resolutions but maybe the according refresh rates different from 60 Hz. I have a "normal" 22 inch LG TFT monitor 1680x1050 native. It has a working refresh rate range of 48.1 - 76.6 Hz with its native resolution. I first made custom resolutions for my home cinema projector and then out of fun I thought I could try that with my desktop monitor as well. I thought because in Windows only 60 Hz was offered that I probably can´t achieve the same like with my projector, but no problem. With the given refresh rate range i have implemented custom resolutions with 50, 59.94, 60, 71.928 and 72 Hz. My projector accepts refresh rates of 15 - 125 Hz and works internally up to 60 Hz without skipping frames. So my projector uses custom resolutions of 47.952, 48, 50, 59.94 and 60 Hz.

[SweetLow]

For now, I've something for you to play with:
madCustomRes

Intel HD4000, Win 7x64, latest driver (10.18.10.4653)
It's working, but old problem of driver is not solved - there isn't possibility to set different 23/24, 29/30 and 59/60 DTD. Driver use only one of them and make some weird calculations of pixel clock.
Some small "bug" exists: when new resolution applied monitor scheme reset to "one monitor" and default rate.
And one question - what is the source of pixel clock in editor for "standard mode, unknown timing details" and known EDID parameters for this resolution and rate? This isn't EDID pixel clock in some cases for both rates in pair (59/60 for example).

[jkauff]

It doesn't.
In reality this is generally more useful for TVs, not desktop screens.
Don't you get the same benefit using exact multiples of TV-type resolutions? Most "60Hz" desktop monitors can be underclocked or overclocked within a certain range.

[SweetLow]

With the given refresh rate range i have implemented custom resolutions with 50, 59.94, 60, 71.928 and 72 Hz.
Did you make tests of real rate of LCD matrix (or what else) after that? The fact that monitor accept some mode say nothing about what you really see.

[ashlar42]

There might be a new madVR version next weekend, but not this. I'll reply to all your posts when the next madVR version is released. Please have a bit patience until then.

For now, I've something for you to play with:

http://madshi.net/madCustomRes.zipOMG YOU DID IT!!! :D

I had been waiting for this. A great tool from the angel that helped me with custom timings back in my Panasonic plasma days. :D

Unfortunately I'm leaving for vacation tomorrow, so I won't be able to test it. But come end of August I'll be all over it.

Thank you for being brave enough to tackle this. Much, much appreciated.