I've been watching some movies on my pc (with vlc media player) and I've noticed that whenever a majority (80+%) of the pixels on the screen go black in a dark scene the whole monitor seems to turn off, and immediately when the movie gets brighter the screen comes back on and acts normal...
Hello and welcome H4LO mate probably the place to start is the driver forthe GPU
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If you read the hotfix but you will see they have recently found someproblems in the graphic card driver section bit there is also the AMD driver set you should take a look at but like I said this is the obvious place to me to start at.
You might also see if your monitor is causing it -- Some LED LCD monitors adaptively adjust the brightness based on how bright or how dark the image actually appears on the screen and to compensate for light bleed. You might want to look for a setting for "Auto Brightness" or "Adaptive Brightness" and go back to manual controls.
Being that this is your first time on the forums, we would like to see your entire system specs, if you don't mind.
The monitor is a 2 month old ASUS VE-228 that's worked in this situation before, which is why I thought it was the Graphics card, i'm trying ICit2's advice...again, i've tried reinstalling AMD's catalyst software countless times before and when I reboot the control panel doesn't want to pop up and a window pops up saying that the command line for it has stopped working
The Hotfix solved my problem about the screen shutting off, but not the Catalyst Control Center
Yes I love Nvidia's software side of things, but AMD's graphics hardware in my opinion is unbeatable
Thanks for your help btw, I appreciate it
Sure that'd be awesome
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