TV out problem!

[sparks219]

Hi all,

I've just purchased a Medion laptop, which has a Geforce 5200 Go w/ S-video out. It's a great laptop, plenty quick, and have very speakers.

Anyways, when I have my S-video connected to my TV, it only shows a black a white picture. However, if I use the composite converter & cable, I get colour pictures, with a lines slowly running up the screen. This means the video card is using composite mode even though I'm using S-Video connection.

There should be an option VIDEO OUTPUT FORMAT under the nView Manager like in this picture..

Unfortunately, under my 45.33 drivers, I don't get any option like this. It's driving me nuts...Any help would be great!

Sparks

 

[Crashman]

Black and white on TV is usually an indication of a PAL source on an NTSC TV, or vice versa.

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[sparks219]

I live in Canada and I've purchased my Sony TV in canada. Therefore, i'm pretty sure M-NTSC is the correct format for my TV. I will try to use PAL format on my TV, just to see what happens.

I find it very strange that the TV only displays colour images when I use the Svideo -> RCA converter. From what I've gathered from Nvidia's release notes, sometimes the TV-out detects some S-video connection as composite connection, and when this happens, the card puts out composite signal over a Svideo connection, which causes the black and white picture. Usualy there is an option in the Nvidia driver which allows me to change auto detection to either composite and S-video. I've attached an image showing that option above.

However, this option is missing from my 45.23 drivers. I was wondering if there was maybe a registry hack which will enable me to change TV out signal type?

Thanks

Sparks

 

[sparks219]

I really hope the new nvidia driver(52.xx) will surface the missing option

Also, for some reason, the option to change resolution for Soldier of Fortune II does not show up in the game either. This starts to really piss me off...arrggg

Sparks