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Harmy said:

I've been using madVR for some years now and I remember looking at my room-mate's monitor when he was watching HD films and thinking they looked horrible - like DNR was applied to them or something (I told him as much but he didn't care) I put it down to his monitor doing it, because he was using MPC-HC, just like me but then one day I installed MPC-HC on the new computer and suddenly videos looked exactly like on my friend's computer, so I started digging and found out, that I accidentally left EVR as the renderer and when I switched to madVR, the difference was night and day - I actually took these screenshots back then to show my friend to convince him to let me switch his settings to madVR too :-)

I'm pretty sure your difference is not caused by EVR but additional filtering from the graphics card driver. I know this because I had the same problem, once I updated both ffdshow and graphics driver and immediately noticed worse picture quality, which really bothered me.

Few days later after searching I found out that gpu driver has options like de-noise, edge enhancement, mosquito noise reduction, deblocking, and dynamic contrast all turned on by default in video options of the driver. I turned off all of those except gpu deinterlacing and the picture quality was again like before. My card is amd but if you have nvidia it probably has something similar.

I never used madVR but for EVR-CP I'm sure that in my case it renders video with fine grain correctly and it looks nothing like your screenshots. Why madVR is outputting video without filtering from the gpu I don't know, it probably works differently than other renderers.

Oh, btw thanks for you wonderful work, few days ago I was lucky enough to watch Star Wars for the first time :) and it was your version so I consider myself lucky that my SW experience was not ruined with Special Editions ha ha.