Monitor brightness and contrast settings

[Loscohones]

What is the best way to calibrate your monitor brightness and contrast settings (for gaming and media mostly) ?  Sometimes i reduce my brightness levels but  i just can't see anything on some games with darker maps and textures, sometimes on other games it feels washed out...

 

Most games have in-game gamma, brightness or contrast settings but mostly i don't think they work well or just make it worse paired with my monitor settings.

 

I use an Asus MG278Q.

 

My monitor settings are:

 

Brightness: 70

Contrast: 85

 

With a custom color temp.

R: 89

G: 97

B: 100  (based on a respectable monitor color calibration site, just can't remember where  )

[Andrewtst]

11 minutes ago, Loscohones said:

MG278Q

This monitor is TN. Nor-matter how you set, TN always suck especially in dark area and TN is the most wash-out panel in the entire LCD display technology.

 

Nothing can do except future don't buy any TN tech monitor.

 

TN was design for e-sport user that want the fastest monitor and don't care on the image output.

[podkall]

Does your monitor have gamma setting? those can help see darker things more clearly.

[heimdali]

Set brightness and contrast into the middle and use the colour temperature you like best.

 

[Loscohones]

Also one more question:

 

Is there a cheap way to color calibrate a monitor, without using a digital tool?

 

Is it better to  tune the colors  directly from the monitor or use a preset windows color profile or  like gpu driver's color settings?