"Desktop" too bright

[BigBirdZ28]

strange kind of problem, not sure if it fits in this forum, but im developing a hypersensitivity to light. my desktop is too bright, but once im in a game or watching a movie, all is fine.

i've changed the IE background to grey & changed the colour scheme to a custom dark one too, is there anything else I can do ?

I am getting tired to winding down the brightness & contrast (brightness on 0, contrast on 70) for the desktop/browsing/word processing/etc... & then changing it (brightness 60, contrast 100)for games & movies...

help plz !

[Disk11]

What video card do you have?

[BigBirdZ28]

AOpen Geforce4 MX440

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Might be a longshot but have you checked the contrast/brightness settings of your monitor

--Jakk:t

[Disk11]

I think the nvidia drivers have color correction built in. Go to your display properties, settings tab, advanced button. There should be a tab with the model of your card. Go to that, and on the left of the windows should be a menu with color correction. Play with those options:t

[AllGamer]

yeah most likely the Monitor

but Brighter is Better

another thing you can check is the Gamma settings in the game

:t

[BipolarBill]

Originally posted by BigBirdZ28
im developing a hypersensitivity to light. Me too. http://membres.lycos.fr/limagerie/smiley_bat2.gif

[bluemoon]

Either buy yourself a better monitor or use Powerstrip to set your gamma per different applications.

I used to have problem like you said when I have my pos
Acer monitor.
I don't have such problem anymore when I switched to Samsung MB series.

Edit. Here's the link for powerstrip download

http://www.entechtaiwan.com/ps.htm