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Is anyone elses Windows 10 dim when there is a dark picture showing?

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Does your monitor have an ancient sensor? Is it turned on? 

This sounds more like a laptop thing. Or is it a desktop?

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For some reason when I have something dark on my monitor, for example dark image the whole screen will darken. This is since the windows 10 update. When I mean the whole screen I mean everything including the task bar at the bottom. It's very strange, it fluctuates when watching movies. Anyone know a fix rather than reverting to an older update?

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Does your monitor have an ancient sensor? Is it turned on? 

This sounds more like a laptop thing. Or is it a desktop?

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11 minutes ago, GER_T4IGA said:

Does your monitor have an ancient sensor? Is it turned on? 

This sounds more like a laptop thing. Or is it a desktop?

Desktop, and let me check.

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12 minutes ago, GER_T4IGA said:

Does your monitor have an ancient sensor? Is it turned on? 

This sounds more like a laptop thing. Or is it a desktop?

Yeah you were correct it was a monitor thing. I took it off Dynamic Contrast. The strange thing is that I never changed it. Cheers though ;)

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Usually the culprit (for other readers)

  • You have dynamic contrast ratio enabled on your monitor/TV (if your monitor/TV is set to Movie mode, it might enable it as well)
  • If its on a laptop screen, you have Intel's "Display Power Saving Technology" enabled. Yes, I know it woks on reverse of what it should be doing, that's Intel for you, they never fixed it. So it consumes more battery with it enabled, as you need to boost your screen brightness to see better as it dims the colors. It also explains why you have lack of colors on battery, as it kicks in. Disable it and problem would be solved.

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