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Weird video problem

I had not tried setting the resolutions from the nvidia control panel, that might help. It never occurred to me the issue could be windows pushing a resolution other than the one its displaying.
 
It is looking like the problem may have been the refresh rate this whole time. I tried changing it from 60 to 59.940 and its a lot more tolerable. Can't tell if that fixed it and I'm halucinating(I do that a bit with bad displays) or its just fixed.

Here's the weird thing: winXP runs through this setup at 60hz no problem. The 3 other win10 machines going directly to the switcher also run at 60hz. The monitor is using a 60hz input. The switcher is set to 60hz. The list goes on and on...

But for some reason a windows 10 machine attached to the snake has to be at 59.940.
 
hunterjwizzard said:
Here's the weird thing: winXP runs through this setup at 60hz no problem.
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Not necessarily. Many APIs cannot reliably differentiate. If I remember correctly (it's been a while), even the HDMI standard is split - it lists 59.94 and 60.00 as separate frame rates, but requires them to be treated the same. If I remember correctly, not all parts of the standard recognize them as different, either.

Internally, frame rates are often handled or shown as integers, so rounding errors happen everywhere. XP only shows integer values, for example. It's a mess.

By the way, the same issues apply when dealing with 29.97 vs. 30 fps. Been there, had fun.
 
I suppose what I meant is "windows XP auto-negotiates the correct rate regardless of what its showing while windows 10 stupidly needs to be told the correct rate".

Is frustrating.
 
Some day day I would love to learn every single thing about the HDMI standard. Then throw a rock through the inventors window.
 
I had a similar issue with a projector; turned out the actual plugs on the cat6 that were installed were not cat6a rated, but just cat5e. I needed to switch to more expensive plugs given the length of the run.

It really helped to have an HDFury device in the chain that could both eliminate the HDCP handshake, and give me information (via display and web interface) about what signal was actually being sent.
 
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