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Hello fellow minecrafters! I'm having a really disappointing and pretty annoying graphical issue with minecraft. I recently got an MSI Stealth gaming laptop with an Nvidia GTX 870m. Figured that would be plenty of power to handle the gaming I would be doing. And for the most part it has. But one glaring problem exists with my most played game, Minecraft! When in dark spaces or underground I get AWFUL color/color banding issues. . Is this a minecraft issue or something I can do to fix it? I'm using the vanilla resource pack. Any suggestions on how I can fix this issue?

Thanks,

Rob

It could be something with your graphical drivers, try checking those.

Also, is it only Minecraft? Have you tried to see if it also happens on other games?

Thanks for taking your time out to try and help, crizcrush.

Yea, Minecraft is the only game that it majorly affects. Is there a setting buried somewhere in minecraft that might fix it?

Excuse my ignorance, but how would I go about checking the driver/s to find a "bad" one? I just got an Nvidia driver update today but it seems to mainly be for the new CoD game.

Rob

I did a little research and it seems like the problem has to do with the either the drivers or the graphic's card not liking lower resolution textures, like Minecraft.

You can't really check for "bad" drivers yourself, but you can try to install the latest driver for your graphics card and see if it will "repair" or "re-install" it.

You can find Nvidia drivers here: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Find your graphics card model and download the driver.

Thanks again for the info, crush. I've tried doing that and it didn't help anything . Your suggestion about the graphics card got me to thinking. The game plays on the Nvidia card, so I changed the way it's set up and set minecraft to run off the integrated Intel instead. Didn't change anything. At a total loss :| .

Rob

Update. Talked with Nvidia rep today about this issue. We tried a couple different things, none of which worked, and we both came to the conclusion that it is Minecraft itself. Not an Nvidia/hardware issue.

If anybody has any ideas, please pass it on.

Rob