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TV Tool alternative for Ati cards? Dark10x? Agent Ice Beezy?

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isamu

OMFG HOLY MOTHER OF MARY IN HEAVEN I CANT BELIEVE IT WTF WHERE ARE MY SEDATIVES AAAAHHH
Hi guys. Y'know....when I used to own an nVidia GeForce 2 MX400 card, I used to use a tool called TV Tool. This allowed me to tweak all kinds of things on my card and bring out the best visuals on my bring screen TV via TV-Out. The picture was easpecially very sharp in comparison to having the tool turned off. It really was an awesome utility. But it's only made for nVidia cards.

So I was wondering, is there a utility similar to TV Tool for Ati cards, specifically for the X800 mobility in my Sager 9860 laptop? The reason is, I'm very unimpressed with the TV-Out quality(via S-video) from this notebook. The picture is a lot softer on my 65" Widescreen Toshiba RPTV(which is NOT by the way, HDTV compatible, but does have a line doubler) than it was from my desktop GeForce 2 MX400 card. It's quite surprising because I had heard Ati is very good at TV out via S-Video and much better than nVidia.

So is there anything I can do, or a utility/tweaker I can grab to bring out the sharpness from this card the way it was from my Geforce card? Or is this X800 mobility card simply incapable of producing the kinds of sharpness that I thought it would?

By the way, one utility I have tried already is "ATI Tray Tools". It's a cool program but (to my knowledge) there aren't any settings to bring out the sharpness out the X800 mobility.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Dark10x? Agent Ice Beezy? :)
 

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isamu said:
Hi guys. Y'know....when I used to own an nVidia GeForce 2 MX400 card, I used to use a tool called TV Tool. This allowed me to tweak all kinds of things on my card and bring out the best visuals on my bring screen TV via TV-Out. The picture was easpecially very sharp in comparison to having the tool turned off. It really was an awesome utility. But it's only made for nVidia cards.

So I was wondering, is there a utility similar to TV Tool for Ati cards, specifically for the X800 mobility in my Sager 9860 laptop? The reason is, I'm very unimpressed with the TV-Out quality(via S-video) from this notebook. The picture is a lot softer on my 65" Widescreen Toshiba RPTV(which is NOT by the way, HDTV compatible, but does have a line doubler) than it was from my desktop GeForce 2 MX400 card. It's quite surprising because I had heard Ati is very good at TV out via S-Video and much better than nVidia.

So is there anything I can do, or a utility/tweaker I can grab to bring out the sharpness from this card the way it was from my Geforce card? Or is this X800 mobility card simply incapable of producing the kinds of sharpness that I thought it would?

By the way, one utility I have tried already is "ATI Tray Tools". It's a cool program but (to my knowledge) there aren't any settings to bring out the sharpness out the X800 mobility.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Dark10x? Agent Ice Beezy? :)


I have the X800 mobility car, can you access your catalyst control panel?
 

isamu

OMFG HOLY MOTHER OF MARY IN HEAVEN I CANT BELIEVE IT WTF WHERE ARE MY SEDATIVES AAAAHHH
I'm not sure...can you tell me what directory its in? There is the little ATI config thingie in the systray....*shrug*
 

dark10x

Digital Foundry pixel pusher
S-video? Why the hell are you using s-video? Either use DVI or the included component video adaptor.

Although, I have a 6800go Ultra in mine...not the X800. S-video out from my 9700 Pro (still in my desktop) is pretty soft, though...
 

isamu

OMFG HOLY MOTHER OF MARY IN HEAVEN I CANT BELIEVE IT WTF WHERE ARE MY SEDATIVES AAAAHHH
dark10x said:
S-video? Why the hell are you using s-video? Either use DVI or the included component video adaptor.

My TV doesnt have DVI!!!
 
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