tf2 brightness bug

#1

charlie

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when i alt tab in/out of tf2 the game sometimes changes to really high brightness and it hurts my eyes!!

none of the old threads on here are helpful cause i did what they said and nothing changed (mostly xbox game bar stuff)]

please help

when i alt tab in/out of tf2 the game sometimes changes to really high brightness and it hurts my eyes!!

none of the old threads on here are helpful cause i did what they said and nothing changed (mostly xbox game bar stuff)]

please help

#2

mastercoms

6 Frags – +

Fullscreen optimizations?

#3

charlie

2 Frags – +

i dont know what that means but i had a bunch of ur vpks and some launch options im pretty sure were on ur site, tried with and without both and didnt make a difference to this problem

thanks for responding too

i dont know what that means but i had a bunch of ur vpks and some launch options im pretty sure were on ur site, tried with and without both and didnt make a difference to this problem

thanks for responding too

#4

hooli

5 Frags – +

https://docs.mastercomfig.com/en/latest/os/windows/#disable-fullscreen-optimizations

#5

NUTS

2 Frags – +

downgrade your nvidia driver to this version, its a problem with the new drivers

https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/159884/en-us

downgrade your nvidia driver to this version, its a problem with the new drivers

https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/159884/en-us

#6

cukei

6 Frags – +

mastercomsFullscreen optimizations?

While this worked for a while, there actually seems to be a new brightness bug that I haven't been able to find a solution to. I'm not sure exactly when it started, but I recently upgraded to the new windows 10 2009 ver, so I assume it must be related to that. More specifically, the variable refresh rate option in the OS might be the culprit but turning that off increases the input lag for my gsync.

This one doesn't seem to increase the brightness though, it just resets the gamma in-game to be 2.2, and then sometimes flips it back to whatever you had it set at.

So everyone who has this bug again, check your windows version and disable the variable refresh rate setting if you are not using that technology. I'll bump this if I find a better solution.

[quote=mastercoms]Fullscreen optimizations?[/quote]

While this worked for a while, there actually seems to be a new brightness bug that I haven't been able to find a solution to. I'm not sure exactly when it started, but I recently upgraded to the new windows 10 2009 ver, so I assume it must be related to that. More specifically, the variable refresh rate option in the OS might be the culprit but turning that off increases the input lag for my gsync.

This one doesn't seem to increase the brightness though, it just resets the gamma in-game to be 2.2, and then sometimes flips it back to whatever you had it set at.

So everyone who has this bug again, check your windows version and disable the variable refresh rate setting if you are not using that technology. I'll bump this if I find a better solution.

#7

charlie

6 Frags – +

mastercomsFullscreen optimizations?

^^ this was the problem

it seems to be fixed now and im just dumb and had the box checked when it shouldve been empty lol

thanks everyone for the help

[quote=mastercoms]Fullscreen optimizations?[/quote]

^^ this was the problem

it seems to be fixed now and im just dumb and had the box checked when it shouldve been empty lol

thanks everyone for the help

#8

Togsyck

-6 Frags – +

wear sunglasses

#9

hooli

-7 Frags – +

Togsyckwear sunglasses

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[quote=Togsyck]wear sunglasses[/quote]
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

#10

poy

5 Frags – +

Having a similar issue. When I alt tab, the game just becomes darker but the in-game gamma is still the same; switching from 1.6 to 2.6 and back to 1.6 fixes the issue until I alt tab again. (Disabling fullscreen optimization did not change anything as well)

#11

cukei

3 Frags – +

poyHaving a similar issue. When I alt tab, the game just becomes darker but the in-game gamma is still the same; switching from 1.6 to 2.6 and back to 1.6 fixes the issue until I alt tab again. (Disabling fullscreen optimization did not change anything as well)

Yea this is the bug I'm talking about, still no concrete solution. Tried everything in nvidia having to do with gamma, tried rolling back my drivers a bit, no dice.

I still think it has to do with the variable refresh rate options or something else randomly hidden. I ended up just living with 2.2 gamma for now but one thing I didn't try was disabling gsync and everything related with that, so if that's the case I guess you have to decide what you care about more.

Unfortunately I won't have a pc to test that theory for about 2 months, so someone else might have to try and confirm.

[quote=poy]Having a similar issue. When I alt tab, the game just becomes darker but the in-game gamma is still the same; switching from 1.6 to 2.6 and back to 1.6 fixes the issue until I alt tab again. (Disabling fullscreen optimization did not change anything as well)[/quote]

Yea this is the bug I'm talking about, still no concrete solution. Tried everything in nvidia having to do with gamma, tried rolling back my drivers a bit, no dice.

I still think it has to do with the variable refresh rate options or something else randomly hidden. I ended up just living with 2.2 gamma for now but one thing I didn't try was disabling gsync and everything related with that, so if that's the case I guess you have to decide what you care about more.

Unfortunately I won't have a pc to test that theory for about 2 months, so someone else might have to try and confirm.

#12

FizzyPug

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I'm pretty sure rolling back fixed it for me when I had this problem, currently on version 452.06 and not having any issues. If that doesn't work what I did for a bit was alt-tab a few times until it went back to original brightness (bit annoying but you don't have to keep opening settings at least)

#13

KuzuKami

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cukeipoyHaving a similar issue. When I alt tab, the game just becomes darker but the in-game gamma is still the same; switching from 1.6 to 2.6 and back to 1.6 fixes the issue until I alt tab again. (Disabling fullscreen optimization did not change anything as well)
Yea this is the bug I'm talking about, still no concrete solution. Tried everything in nvidia having to do with gamma, tried rolling back my drivers a bit, no dice.

I still think it has to do with the variable refresh rate options or something else randomly hidden. I ended up just living with 2.2 gamma for now but one thing I didn't try was disabling gsync and everything related with that, so if that's the case I guess you have to decide what you care about more.

Unfortunately I won't have a pc to test that theory for about 2 months, so someone else might have to try and confirm.

I'm sitting here with the same problem, v-sync/g-sync settings have absolutely no bearing on it.

[quote=cukei][quote=poy]Having a similar issue. When I alt tab, the game just becomes darker but the in-game gamma is still the same; switching from 1.6 to 2.6 and back to 1.6 fixes the issue until I alt tab again. (Disabling fullscreen optimization did not change anything as well)[/quote]

Yea this is the bug I'm talking about, still no concrete solution. Tried everything in nvidia having to do with gamma, tried rolling back my drivers a bit, no dice.

I still think it has to do with the variable refresh rate options or something else randomly hidden. I ended up just living with 2.2 gamma for now but one thing I didn't try was disabling gsync and everything related with that, so if that's the case I guess you have to decide what you care about more.

Unfortunately I won't have a pc to test that theory for about 2 months, so someone else might have to try and confirm.[/quote]

I'm sitting here with the same problem, v-sync/g-sync settings have absolutely no bearing on it.

#14

fiona1729

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If it's still an issue, try binding a key to increase and then decrease your gamma. For example when I press tab, mouse3 or change class I have my binds run

mat_monitorgamma 1.799; mat_monitorgamma 1.8

and my scoreboard habit ends up mostly fixing it.

If it's still an issue, try binding a key to increase and then decrease your gamma. For example when I press tab, mouse3 or change class I have my binds run
[code]mat_monitorgamma 1.799; mat_monitorgamma 1.8[/code] and my scoreboard habit ends up mostly fixing it.