Banding Issues with GeForce 8800

Hi,
I just installed CS4 Production Premium on a new Mac Pro. The system specs are:
2x 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
10GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB
2x 1TB SAS drives
Samsung 30" Syncmaster 305T Plus
OSX 10.5.6 (both OSX and CS4 are up to date)
When I was working in After Effects, I noticed some dramatic banding issues when lighting a scene. I was curious, so I created a gradient and the same banding was visible. I tried creating a gradient in PS, AI and Flash: same results. Consistent across all CS4 products, and the image depth (8bit, 16bit or 32bit) doesn't affect it at all. Applying a blur effect to any image also produces banding.
I tried finding some gradients through Google image search. They look fine in Firefox, but when I open them in Photoshop the banding once again pops up. Same in Preview to some extent, but not as drastic.
Two other guys in my office are running CS4 with the same monitor. We're running identically calibrated color profiles, and working in the same color space. They have no problems. The only difference between their setup and mine is that they're using Macbook Pros.
Things I have tried: turning OpenGL on/off and toggling the individual GPU settings, working in all available color spaces, working with variable DPI, using another monitor, changing the synchronized color space through Bridge, changing the conversion options (dither, engine, etc), changing the color management policies, working in CMYK/RGB/Gray/Lab, changing the pixel aspect ratio, altering the scratch disks and memory allocation, dumping my CS4 preferences and starting over... none of this affects the banding. A 16bit 72DPI image that's a straight black to white gradient consists of nothing more than 12 or so very visible steps. I'm starting to wonder if this is a graphics card issue.
All the work I'm doing is for screen, so printers don't factor into the equation. I'd appreciate any tips or suggestions anyone can offer.

Well, one thing I notice is that attempting to open the linked .png in Photoshop, it has an embedded "SyncMaster" profile.
Opening it in Photoshop CS4, maintaining that profile, I see banding (although very subtle in the second (bottom) example). The top example exhibits a stippled effect at the band edges at 100% scale.
Opening it and converting it to Adobe RGB 1998, I see almost no sign of banding in that bottom example.
Opening it as is in Preview, I see the banding again.
Creating a new radial gradient in Photoshop CS4, 1300 pixels wide, #666666 to #000000, at 100% scale, it is a smooth transition with the barest hint of banding. Also, my #666666 is noticeably lighter than in your example.
Offhand, I'm not sure which factors affect your workflow. But I doubt it is your video card unless it is set for, say 16 bit or 8 bit...
Neil

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Solved!
Go to Solution.

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Mountain Lion incompatible with Geforce 8800?

I have an 8 core Mac Pro, everything has been working fine...until I upgraded to Mountain Lion. Doing anything video intensive causes the system to crash. Sometimes the whole system has a kernel panic and reboots on its own. Other times, the video goes nuts, and I get repeating patterns all over the screen, and am unable to get the system back to a usable state without having to hold the power button. The video card was a GeForce 8800GT, which I have been using for years with zero issues... until upgrading to Mountain Lion. I have all updates installed as well. I took the video card out and put back the ATI that came with the machine, and it seems to have resolved it. But why is it doing this? The Geforce is a far superior card, and I hate not having it. If there is no fix, I may just downgrade and start looking at switching back to a Windows machine. If anyone has any suggestions or answers, please help. I appreciate it.
Below I'm pasting a log of the kernel panic:
Wed Oct 16 20:04:40 2013
panic(cpu 5 caller 0xffffff7f82436281): NVRM[0/2:0:0]: Read Error 0x00070000: CFG 0x061110de 0x00100406 0x92000000, BAR0 0x92000000 0xffffff812c9e8000 0x092880a2, D0, P1/2
Backtrace (CPU 5), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff812b023580 : 0xffffff800181d636
0xffffff812b0235f0 : 0xffffff7f82436281
0xffffff812b0236b0 : 0xffffff7f8285c849
0xffffff812b0236f0 : 0xffffff7f8277011e
0xffffff812b023730 : 0xffffff7f8283dbfa
0xffffff812b023860 : 0xffffff7f8283d626
0xffffff812b023950 : 0xffffff7f82584d26
0xffffff812b023aa0 : 0xffffff7f82583ffb
0xffffff812b023bb0 : 0xffffff7f82866573
0xffffff812b023d10 : 0xffffff7f82885598
0xffffff812b023e20 : 0xffffff7f82531ad1
0xffffff812b023e40 : 0xffffff7f8243d03f
0xffffff812b023ef0 : 0xffffff8001c50e58
0xffffff812b023f30 : 0xffffff8001c4f95a
0xffffff812b023f80 : 0xffffff8001c4fa89
0xffffff812b023fb0 : 0xffffff80018b3257
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.apple.NVDAResman(8.1.6)[EA4F9902-5AAE-3F1D-A846-3796221C8C91]@0xffffff7f823 d5000->0xffffff7f82676fff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.8)[6C1D646D-7E5E-3D7F-A557-2CBA398FF878]@0xffffff 7f81d8a000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.7)[F16E015E-1ABE-3C40-AC71-BC54F4BE442E]@0xff ffff7f82319000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.7)[9928306E-3508-3DBC-80A4-D8F1D87650D7]@0 xffffff7f822e2000
         com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal(8.1.6)[3455BCFE-565A-3FE5-9F0B-855BCB6CC9B3]@0xffffff7 f82745000->0xffffff7f82a18fff
            dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(8.1.6)[EA4F9902-5AAE-3F1D-A846-3796221C8C91]@0xffffff7f823 d5000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.8)[6C1D646D-7E5E-3D7F-A557-2CBA398FF878]@0xffffff 7f81d8a000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Boot args: arch=i386
Mac OS version:
12F45
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.5.0: Sun Sep 29 13:33:47 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.48.12~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: EA38B02E-2B88-309F-BA68-1DE29F605DD8
Kernel slide:     0x0000000001600000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8001800000
System model name: MacPro3,1 (Mac-F42C88C8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 17703153617510
last loaded kext at 17311154886777: com.motu.driver.FireWireAudio    1.6 57985 (addr 0xffffff7f82d88000, size 892928)
last unloaded kext at 12293333421178: com.motu.driver.FireWireAudio    1.6 57985 (addr 0xffffff7f82257000, size 569344)
loaded kexts:
com.motu.driver.FireWireAudio    1.6 57985
com.vmware.kext.vmioplug.10.1.24    10.1.24
com.vmware.kext.vmx86    0104.03.86
com.vmware.kext.vmnet    0104.03.86
com.vmware.kext.vsockets    90.4.23
com.vmware.kext.vmci    90.4.18
com.logmein.driver.LogMeInSoundDriver    1.0.2
com.Logitech.Control Center.HID Driver    3.1.0
com.apple.filesystems.smbfs    1.8.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelProfile    119
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor    1.9.5d0
com.apple.filesystems.autofs    3.0
com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet    1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient    3.5.12
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager    4.1.7f4
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl    1.1.11
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA    2.4.7fc4
com.apple.GeForce    8.1.6
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X    7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC    1.60
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com.apple.driver.AppleLPC    1.6.3
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com.apple.driver.ApplePolicyControl    3.4.5
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com.apple.BootCache    34
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com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage    2.3.5
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib    1.0.0d1
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless    1.0.0d1
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com.apple.security.quarantine    2.1
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall    4.0.39
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement    214.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileTimestampAction    119
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileThreadInfoAction    119
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileRegisterStateAction    119
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileReadCounterAction    119
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileKEventAction    119
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileCallstackAction    119
com.apple.iokit.AppleProfileFamily    119
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Try using Google: http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-5.5.25-driver.html
http://www.tonymacx86.com/257-nvidia-releases-mountain-lion-10-8-2-graphics-driv ers/comments3.html
http://www.geforce.com/drivers

Banding issues with Gradient

I'm having some troubles with the gradient tool in Illustrator and I hope someone can help. No matter what I do I can't get a smooth color blend there are always strips or rings. As you can see I have two colors in my gradient and the gradient slider is in the middle but I keep getting a lot of the first color with a quick transistion into the second color. This happens no matter what colors I use I just picked these two because they're easier to see the lines in. The same thing shows up when I print so it's not my moniter. My blend options are set on smooth color. It happens no matter where my gradient annotator is. I've never had this trouble before and I don't know what else to try!! Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Monika Gause wrote:
emil emil wrote:
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The point of the example with the "Photoshop 5 Default CMYK " is that the problem is not the CMYK color spaces in general but the fact that Illustrator always makes a gradient assuming it is used in a color space having the same gamma curve as the sRGB color space. The OP used a color space with a very different gamma curve than sRGB. However, the gradient in Photoshop 5 Default CMYK and sRGB looks similarly uniform because both color spaces have similar gamma curves.
The point of the second example with converting RGB to CMYK is that although having rich black does help avoiding uneven gradient distribution, it doesn't automatically solves the problem with matching the sRGB gradient the way it looks in the sRGB color space and that's what the OP asked for.
The acctual solution for matching the gradint in sRGB color space in my post was this:
emil emil wrote:
If you want to keep the appearance of the sRGB gradient in other color
space, create or convert the gradient to sRGB, rasterize or expand it to
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> CMYK
Monika Gause wrote:...Choosing "Photoshop 5 Default CMYK" will trun color management off - at least on the surface. But under the hood it will work on, only you are not in control any more. ...
No, it doesn't turn the color management off on or under the surface and you have as much control as using any other color spaces. But, I have no idea what this profile represents, I just gave it as an example after trying different available profiles and saw that this one gives uniform gradient similar to sRGB.
We can say the color management is off only when there is no conversion between source and destination because both are the same color space. This means creating CMYK documents referring to the monitor will always require color management conversion from the CMYK color space of the document to the RGB color space of the monitor, so you can't turn off color management for CMYK documents. You can do that for RGB documents by displaying them in the monitor's color space in which case the color space of the image equals the color space of the monitor (no conversion). And this actually is always the case with non - color managed programs but an option in those that are fully color managed.
Monika Gause wrote:...
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Ok so heres whats going on and i'm hoping some can help me out here cause i'm totally lost!
So we have a film shot on HDV. The scenes are mostly dark and well lit. Everything in the FCP timeline looks great (little noisy but great). We brought it over the color and did our color grading and corrections. Once we returned back to FCP, we started seeing some major color banding. We then applied the neatvideo plug-in with helps with noise but it made it far worse.
We are rendering in 10bit but how can we remove this banding!!
Thanks again for the help!

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Photoshop CS4 Issues with the NVIDIA GeForce 8800?

I have an Mac Pro Intel 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Xeon with 6GB RAM running OS X 10.5.5 and an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT driving two monitors.
I just installed Adobe Photoshop CS4 fresh from a factory CD.
When I perform a Distort -> Lens Correction or do a Free Transform to rotate an image an arbitrary amount, and then follow that with a resize (tried 133% and 166%), the image ends up with a pattern of gray plaid overlaid -- especially visible in the darkest shadows. The pattern appears only on the rotated layers of an image.
This pattern persists if I quit and restart Photoshop, BUT -- there's no pattern visible if I open the same image in Photoshop CS3. It only appears in CS4.
This is easy to reproduce -- I just tried it with an image I created in Photoshop at 5x7" at 240dpi and filled with solid black.
I dropped a Bug Report to Adobe, and they wrote back suggesting "This is most likely an issue with your video card driver."
Anybody else out there having this issue? Anyone with an identical setup want to test this?
-=-Joe

sako75 wrote:
I'm seeing what you are talking about when viewing at 200% and up on my 300dpi images. I'm thinking that its the new pixel grid overlay for dialing in the details on the image.
No, that's not it. I can see it at 100%, and only on images that have been rotated and resized.
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And it's not a simple grid -- it's a real plaid-like gray, almost like stretch marks.
-=-Joe

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