Windows 10: Washed out colors and color banding on RX 5500 XT new PC

Just built a new pc and I have some really nasty problems with my GPU on Windows 10:


The color banding and washed out, impossibly contrasting and saturated video and game rendering drives me crazy and I can't seem to find any fixes. The interesting thing is that it seems to happen only when I render videos or play video games. Also, the videos resolution i.e. youtube seem to be of lower quality, even though selected quality is 1080p. Here are some images so you can see what I'm talking about sorry for bad quality phone pictures, it was the only way I could illustrate what I meant:


The following is a screen capture from this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJZWKBDXXFY 3:26:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10bGE8nHiFj6ley7ZhSLHIUGSvKndvLCb/view?usp=sharing



As you can see, the SS is alright, no problem here. But here is how the video actually looks when played on Youtube photo taken by phone:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eMs6w4mU7hcBV7JQ5N3PNI-ChQWpRoeG/view?usp=sharing



Zoomed in on the previous image to see the color banding and strange hues:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D7dhWHfkkGqcatW3okFZ72_FJRNWoLbm/view?usp=sharing

There clearly are some out of place colors in the actual video when played.



This one is a photo of the first screenshot. Not too much of a difference here; I wanted to show the zoomed in version for the sake of comparison.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RAe5rtGZfoND0DN52wlWDLCxnaLn0dhS?usp=sharing



And here are three screenshots I took from Dark Souls Remastered. You can see the colors are washed out and there are blueish, greenish and purple-ish hues in most dark and shadowy areas.


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T6zjisa-a_bty0CHOaRP4V8RLC8MQkqq/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zoiVw3i1gc8Lw_99dMM3mvzJwTxKUxmB/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1btOm535H5Lf9bJwTjC5rh0MqkYpLeQ-D/view?usp=sharing



One thing I need to mention is that I swapped GPUs with a friend, and his configuration renders video and games alright with my RX 5500 XT on his motherboard, so the GPU is not faulty. Here is my configuration, maybe it helps:


Motherboard: ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming 4

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core

GPU: AMD Radeon Sapphire Pulse RX 5500 XT 8GB, GDDR6, 128 bit placed in PCIe 4.0 x16 slot

RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3600 MHz, CL 20, Dual Channel placed like this: [] [] [] []

PSU: Corsair CX Series™ CX550F RGB, 80 PLUS® Bronze, 550W

SSD: Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe



Radeon Software utility helped me with the drivers; I also use it to configure color in games, nothing else. I'm updated, as can be seen here though I haven't activated Windows; could that be a problem?: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PNRDGlXX30ysm1TMyXkTHHdd6yr1x51W/view?usp=sharing



Here is a screenshot with the display settings in Radeon Software:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zoiVw3i1gc8Lw_99dMM3mvzJwTxKUxmB/view?usp=sharing



Windows 10 display settings.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sEYRHqsgVhRjSgilPTBEE5SNFOL-rGXZ/view?usp=sharing



I also use Ubuntu for work and I don't have such problems there. Video rendering seems to be fine.



Sorry for the long post, it's quite a bummer for me since I've waited so much to build this PC; I really want to find solutions.

:)

 

Awful washed out colors in Windows 10. Happens intermittently

I wonder why nobody has suggested the OP to make a screenshot of display showing these "washed out colors"? Everything I have read in this thread suggests that the issue is not in Windows, but instead in display / monitor.

My suggestion: next time you'll see these washed out colors, make a screenshot and post it here. If the screenshot shows us that colors are OK, then the issue is your monitor failing.

Tutorials you might need:

• Take Screenshot in Windows 10
• How to Upload and Post Screenshots and Files at Ten Forums

 

Awful washed out colors in Windows 10. Happens intermittently

Because...

 

colors get washed out

The problem has showed up out of nowhere. When I turned on my PC, the colors have changed and seemed like washed out. I tried to reboot the PC but it didn’t help. I’d had bright colors before.