Gaming and general Windows washed out and lost sharpness

[Damwee]

So all was well whilst playing Dirt until i changed the graphics to ultra.

Since then everything (not just text) has lost its sharpness and looks kinda washed out.

Im using a VGA cable through a convertor

Ive tried my tv upstairs on VGA cable
Ive tried both outputs on my graphics card
ive tried the HDMI output on my card
Ive tried plugging directly into the VGA socket on my motherboard
Ive tried a different vga cable
Ive tried re-installing the NVIDIA drivers

All made no difference

The motherboard and CPU is fairly new but it worked fine before these graphics issues

Kinda stuck now.

Would appreciate any help

ASUS Z97m-plus
Gigiabyte Geforce GTX460 se
Intel I5 4590

Component Details Subscore Base score
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz 7.6 5.9
Determined by lowest subscore

Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB 7.6
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE 7.6
Gaming graphics 2787 MB Total available graphics memory 7.6
Primary hard disk 101GB Free (284GB Total) 5.9
Windows 7 Home Premium

System
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Manufacturer ASUS
Model All Series
Total amount of system memory 4.00 GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 4

Storage
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Total size of hard disk(s) 298 GB
Disk partition (C 101 GB Free (284 GB Total)
Disk partition (D 2 GB Free (14 GB Total)
Media drive (E CD/DVD

Graphics
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Display adapter type NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE
Total available graphics memory 2787 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 1024 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 1763 MB
Display adapter driver version 9.18.13.3788
Primary monitor resolution 1600x900
DirectX version DirectX 10

Network
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Network Adapter Intel(R) Ethernet Connection (2) I218-V
Network Adapter 802.11n Wireless LAN Card

 

[Shadowblade2652]

What converter is it? DVI to VGA? or VGA to HDMI?

VGA is analog and HDMI is digital. That could be your problem. Try a DVI to HDMI adapter because your card SHOULD have a DVI port at the least.

 

[Damwee]

Shadowblade2652, thanks for your reply

Its DVI to VGA but i dont think that the issue purely because i tried plugging my VGA cable into the VGA socket on the motherboard, so no converter required, and it was still the same :-(

 

[Shadowblade2652]

could try a new cable?

 

[Damwee]

Yep, tried that too. Also plug the new cable into my laptop and used the PC monitor and the picture was perfect - so that rules out cable and monitor issues.

 

[Shadowblade2652]

Yep, tried that too. Also plug the new cable into my laptop and used the PC monitor and the picture was perfect - so that rules out cable and monitor issues.

you could have screwed something up. Have you tried putting the hard drive in a different computer and looking to see whether it works (assuming the computer itself works). If the second computer has problems as well, it's the windows installation and you have something broken on it.

 

[Damwee]

I havent got another computer to plug the hard drive into so i think i may have to go for a complete re-install of windows and hope that does it

 

[Shadowblade2652]

I havent got another computer to plug the hard drive into so i think i may have to go for a complete re-install of windows and hope that does it

perhaps ask a friend? No point in reinstalling windows if it's not your OS

 

[Damwee]

O.K - not 100% what the answer was but my monitor blew in end so there is a good chance it was the monitor all along. Still doesn't explain why i had the issues when using my LCD TV from upstairs tho!!

New monitor + using DVI cable = no issues

 

[Shadowblade2652]

O.K - not 100% what the answer was but my monitor blew in end so there is a good chance it was the monitor all along. Still doesn't explain why i had the issues when using my LCD TV from upstairs tho!!

New monitor + using DVI cable = no issues

Has your T.V. blown in? Does it work with other things like consoles or cable boxes?