Monitor Settings or something else?

Acid_Wire

Bonjour
So I now have a new computer that can actually handle intensive stuff without melting. The downside is that I thought a monitor that I already had would be fine. For the most part it's okay, but I'm a little concerned about how accurate it currently is in terms of contrast and the like. It's a little irritating that it doesn't have much in the way of built-in controls. Just a cheap Digihome thing, about £120ish or so IIRC.

I'm seeing this effect all the time with anything I'm working on, and sometimes on other people's stuff - but not as often - especially when looking at gradients that are supposed to be smooth. They just look like bands of colours/levels, so I'm not sure if I'm creating abominations of textures or if the lighting/gradients look OK on other displays.

Here's an example, shot taken from the Marmoset toolbag:

ZacD

It's not a monitor issue if we can see it, unless you have the color set to 16bit instead of 32bit.

Acid_Wire

So the bands/segments are visible to you?

EarthQuake

I'm seeing banding on my laptop monitor, which is an 6-bit e-IPS screen, I'm not at home to check it with my better monitors, but most cheap monitors are 6 bit and do not actually display anywhere near the colors your video is outputting, so subtle gradients will show banding or dithering effects.

Acid_Wire

Just sent a link to the image to a friend, who is saying that the banding is visible on her monitor - although that's also a laptop.
A quick fiddle with some settings didn't help. Checked that the banding is still visible without any specularity in Marmoset, and it is. So I'm guessing that it's something to do with my output from PS, which is kind of odd since I've never run into this issue before..

ZacD

post your textures here and see if there banding, lower resolution is fine.

Acid_Wire

Here's the diffuse from the briefcase:

So it's probably an issue with the textures?

Acid_Wire

Apparently the banding doesn't show up if I view it in xNormal's viewer with the exact same textures applied.

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EDIT:
Okay, wow. Apparently I was saving out textures NOT as 32bits/pixel. Looking fine in Marmoset now.
ZacD, you were spot on.