Strobelight - LightBoost Utility for AMD/ATI and NVIDIA

[Swordchan]

I'am using 10% brightness strobed.. Can i just turn the contrast up now without runining the lightboost effect?

[ToastyX]

(07-08-2013 11:49 PM)moussaka Wrote:  I set up strobelight to have 120Hz strobed, 100Hz strobed, and 144Hz normal rates. When in the 120Hz strobed the brightness doesn't change, so I'm assuming it isn't working. However, when in 100Hz strobed the brightness does change.

I don't know if it matters or not, but I also have an LG L246wp connected. The ASUS is the main monitor.

Does the monitor's menu say "3D-Mode" at 120 Hz? What about at 100 Hz? The LG shouldn't affect anything.

(07-09-2013 05:16 PM)Swordchan Wrote:  I'am using 10% brightness strobed.. Can i just turn the contrast up now without runining the lightboost effect?

Turning up the contrast won't ruin the effect, but it will wash out the lighter colors. Raise the brightness instead. The difference in motion clarity between 10% and 100% is very small, so 50% is a good compromise.

[mdrejhon]

(07-09-2013 05:16 PM)Swordchan Wrote:  I'am using 10% brightness strobed.. Can i just turn the contrast up now without runining the lightboost effect?

Raising contrast will expand the monitor's gamut but will start to show crosstalk/ghosting artifacts, and start washing out, and then the whites start clipping.

For ASUS VG278H, the highest monitor OSD contrast to use is about 90%, and for BENQ, it's usually 50% or 65% before the whites starts clipping. Then you have to calibrate via nVidia Control Panel (use Gamma 0.85 to make the colors nicer looking again).

Use LightBoost 50% or LightBoost 100%, you don't have to use LightBoost=10% if it is too dim and you can't tell apart LightBoost=10% versus LightBoost=100%. It's just a minor improvement compared to turning ON/OFF LightBoost.

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P.S. Reminder to everyone, add multiple modes during strobelight-setup.exe. My Blur Busters Blog gets some google searches such as "remove strobelight" and "uninstall toasty strobe light" (including from places such as Germany and Russia); I think these foreigners (who can't read English well) are just installing only the default modes and don't realize they can't turn on/off if they had selected multiple modes in strobelight-setup.exe.

[moussaka]

(07-09-2013 06:24 PM)ToastyX Wrote:  

(07-08-2013 11:49 PM)moussaka Wrote:  I set up strobelight to have 120Hz strobed, 100Hz strobed, and 144Hz normal rates. When in the 120Hz strobed the brightness doesn't change, so I'm assuming it isn't working. However, when in 100Hz strobed the brightness does change.

I don't know if it matters or not, but I also have an LG L246wp connected. The ASUS is the main monitor.

Does the monitor's menu say "3D-Mode" at 120 Hz? What about at 100 Hz? The LG shouldn't affect anything.

it says 3D on 100Hz but not 120Hz. However, strobed is checked for both of them in the program.

[Ryth]

Hi,

First of thank you Toasty for the amazing work you do

The 2 monitors available in my area from the list in the original post are the BenQ XL2411T and the ASUS VG248QE. They both are similairly priced (the ASUS being 20 euro's more expensive or so).

My question is: which one should I pick?

I'm running a system with Windows 7 and an ATI Radeon 7950 (Club 3d Royalking). I'm a competetive FPS gamer. Which monitor would perform the best with my setup?

Thanks in advance

(If I didn't provide enough info, please let me know )

EDIT: Also.. doesn't the Strobing work on Fullscreen mode at all? Or is it just the toggling that doesn't work when you are fullscreen?

[WeApOn]

Love being able to switch between my normal 144hz res and the 120hz strobed res, but it would be even better if I could switch to another custom res with the same type of keystrokes.

Is there any way to bind another key to switch to 60hz?

Thanks!

[ToastyX]

(07-11-2013 01:51 PM)WeApOn Wrote:  Is there any way to bind another key to switch to 60hz?

I will add Ctrl+Alt+F6 as a way to switch to 60 Hz in the next release.

(07-11-2013 01:48 PM)Ryth Wrote:  The 2 monitors available in my area from the list in the original post are the BenQ XL2411T and the ASUS VG248QE. They both are similairly priced (the ASUS being 20 euro's more expensive or so).

My question is: which one should I pick?

I don't have any buying advice in this case. They are both well-supported by the program. The biggest reported difference is the colors when strobing: the BenQ might have a crimson tint, while the ASUS might have lower contrast.

(07-11-2013 01:48 PM)Ryth Wrote:  EDIT: Also.. doesn't the Strobing work on Fullscreen mode at all? Or is it just the toggling that doesn't work when you are fullscreen?

It's just the toggling that won't work properly. Strobing will work as long as the game is using the appropriate refresh rate.

(07-11-2013 01:00 AM)moussaka Wrote:  it says 3D on 100Hz but not 120Hz. However, strobed is checked for both of them in the program.

That's weird. It doesn't make sense for 100 Hz to work but not 120 Hz. Strobelight will always show strobing is on at 120 Hz because there's no way to ask the monitor what mode it's in. The problem is either the driver is not sending the strobed refresh rate at 120 Hz, or the monitor is not switching to 3D mode when it should.

Two things to try:

1. Make sure "Reduce DVI frequency on high-resolution displays" is not checked in the Catalyst Control Center under My Digital Flat-Panels -> Properties (Digital Flat-Panel).

2. Try unplugging the monitor's power and plugging it back in. Then choose "Reinitialize displays" in the tray icon menu to go through the initialization process again.

[moussaka]

(07-12-2013 01:04 AM)ToastyX Wrote:  Two things to try:

1. Make sure "Reduce DVI frequency on high-resolution displays" is not checked in the Catalyst Control Center under My Digital Flat-Panels -> Properties (Digital Flat-Panel).

2. Try unplugging the monitor's power and plugging it back in. Then choose "Reinitialize displays" in the tray icon menu to go through the initialization process again.

Tried both and 120Hz still doesn't want to work. "Reduce DVI freq..." was checked so I unchecked that - tried and didnt work. Then I unplugged and reinitialized and it also didn't want to work.

Do I need certain video drivers? or is it unrelated?

I'm using 12.4 betas (if it ain't broke don't fix it). Not even sure what they're at now lol...

[fcaster23]

I installed this Utility but when I right clicked the icon in the system tray, there was no option to turn the strobelight on or off. I installed it several times with multiple monitor refresh rates to ensure that was not the problem. Any solutions?

[xAlex79]

Nifty app.

Does not seem to work for me, at all. I have the 2720T and a AMD 6990 video card.

Initialized the display and all seemed to go according to plan, 3D indicator came on and all that jazz. I could switch between 120hz(S) 100hz(S) and 60hz.

Only problem is that not only does the strobes modes kill the brightness there is NO improvement whatsoever over 60hz if anything its worse.

I have tried anyting I can think of but in he UFO test on the website it will never go past 60 FPS saying there is shuttering or performance issues.

And in the Pxerpan car thingy I can't even read past tempo 3 since blur is so bad.

Windows setting is 120hz, AMD CCC settings is 120hz, 3d led at the bottom right of the screen is on. Still no cigar.

here is a debug of the strobelight.

[2013-07-14 21:45:56.801] LOAD(AMD): LoadLibrary("atiadlxx.dll") = ERROR 126
[2013-07-14 21:45:56.805] LOAD(AMD): LoadLibrary("atiadlxy.dll") = SUCCESS
[2013-07-14 21:45:56.826] LOAD(AMD): ADL_Main_Control_Create() = SUCCESS
[2013-07-14 21:45:56.826] LOAD(NVIDIA): NvAPI_Initialize() = ERROR -2
[2013-07-14 21:45:57.059] INIT(AMD, 0, 1): 3D = ERROR
[2013-07-14 21:45:57.344] INIT(AMD, 2, 16): 3D = TRUE
[2013-07-14 21:46:03.700] INFO(AMD, 2, 16): BRIGHTNESS = 1
[2013-07-14 22:25:20.265] INFO(AMD, 2, 16): BRIGHTNESS = 7
[2013-07-14 22:29:53.567] INFO(AMD, 2, 16): BRIGHTNESS = 1
[2013-07-15 00:21:26.310] INFO(AMD, 2, 16): BRIGHTNESS = 8
[2013-07-15 00:21:47.079] INFO(AMD, 2, 16): BRIGHTNESS = 10
[2013-07-15 05:04:17.399] INFO(AMD, 2, 16): BRIGHTNESS = 6
[2013-07-15 05:41:42.770] INFO(AMD, 2, 16): BRIGHTNESS = 5
[2013-07-15 05:54:15.164] INFO(AMD, 2, 16): BRIGHTNESS = 1


Help? I am really keen to get that CRT like LCD experience going.