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GoonnorTV Dec 1, 2023 @ 6:49pm
Desktop Mode color range
It seems to me that most of the time when switching from Gaming Mode to Desktop Mode the overall color range gets less colorful

It is very noticeable when the colors suddenly pop like it is supposed to. I don't know if it has something to do with Color Range set in Settings >> Display >>Adjust Display Colors getting reset maybe

Does anyone else experience anything similar to this? Is there any way to fix this?
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sunspark Dec 1, 2023 @ 10:50pm 
The reason this happens is because desktop mode is a separate environment from gaming mode. There are no colour management profiles in desktop mode, so it's basically just whatever your display is capable of on its own.
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GoonnorTV Dec 3, 2023 @ 11:11am 
Originally posted by sunspark:
The reason this happens is because desktop mode is a separate environment from gaming mode. There are no colour management profiles in desktop mode, so it's basically just whatever your display is capable of on its own.
Shouldn't desktop and gaming mode be unified when it comes to color range? Seems like a no-brainer to me
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nix Dec 3, 2023 @ 6:34pm 
Yes, but this is largely a technological limitation caused by desktop mode being X11 (which has very limited colour range support, dating as it does to the era between the mid-80s and mid-2000s) and gaming mode being Wayland (much newer, with full support for such things even when, as is currently the case in gaming mode) it is only used to run X11 applications. A native Wayland desktop is no doubt coming, but that depends on KDE, which is still working on it.
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GoonnorTV Dec 7, 2023 @ 11:44am 
Originally posted by nix:
Yes, but this is largely a technological limitation caused by desktop mode being X11 (which has very limited colour range support, dating as it does to the era between the mid-80s and mid-2000s) and gaming mode being Wayland (much newer, with full support for such things even when, as is currently the case in gaming mode) it is only used to run X11 applications. A native Wayland desktop is no doubt coming, but that depends on KDE, which is still working on it.
Ah I get it. Thank you for this answer
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