SA: Wrong color depth for intro screens

[CommandGenius]

San Andreas:

Vice City:

As you can see, San Andreas has more of a matte black look than a pure black look like in Vice City.

[CookiePLMonster]

You seem to be using custom videos. Isn't this just how they are authored?

[CommandGenius]

You seem to be using custom videos. Isn't this just how they are authored?

No, the same thing applies when using the vanilla videos.

[CommandGenius]

It has something to do with ddraw, since I get the same result with SA without the ddraw patch.

[TheComputerGuy96]

Here's the video being played in mpv as a control on the left and the OP's screenshot on the right (you can see R letter is less black on the right side and the black background is no longer black too):

[CookiePLMonster]

San Andreas vids player is a poorly understood thing that doesn't work most of the time, but it's possible that maybe it's also misconfigured. I'll keep it open, but those movies are extremely low priority as-is.

[RuesanG]

i cant reproduce it

do you play under Win 11 ?

[CommandGenius]

Yes, I play using Windows 11.

[RuesanG]

I really can't reproduce it either i have Win11 24H2 too

Do you have AutoHDR on? when yes make it off

I have installed all the codecs that Microsoft has in their store for reinstalling "https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/codecs-in-media-player-d5c2cdcd-83a2-4805-abb0-c6888138e456"

and my graphics card setting has color management set to RGB and the highest bit setting

[MrEWhite]

I'm getting this as well on Win 11 24H2, and I do recall having it happen before upgrading as well. For some reason, dropping the SilentPatch DDraw Component in (even though it's for GTA III & VC) seems to fix this.