Annoying yellow / green tint in fullscreen only for Valve games :Gmod (source engine), HL, HL2, TF2, CSS, CSGO, exc.

[JustGamingBOT]

I keep getting a annoying yellow/ greenish tint when i play any Valve title in full screen. Only valve. any other game on steam is fine. Yes, I could play in border less window but games like tf2 dont have that so I'm hoping to find some answer here.

[Zekiran]

Could you please post a screenshot? Because... not really sure what you mean, have you enabled a setting and forgotten about it, or changed hardware / drivers for your video card? Is your computer using the card to play, or the onboard chipset instead?

[ReBoot]

Check the color profile. I bet your monitor applies the tint with your OS compensating for that with a non-default color profile. Full screen games don't render through the OS so they don't use the profile.
Check if that's the case and if yes, adjust your monitor's settings directly so it'll look good with defaults.

Or run TF2 in a borderless Window, Valve named that setting "Aero optimization".

[JustGamingBOT]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Could you please post a screenshot? Because... not really sure what you mean, have you enabled a setting and forgotten about it, or changed hardware / drivers for your video card? Is your computer using the card to play, or the onboard chipset instead?

I am using a GPU to play, i did not change any settings in any of those games ive reinstalled them several times, I changed to a 144hz monitor that did have a greenish tint but its not the same and i fixed that in the monitors own settings. I can try screenshots with my phone but when i take a printscreen you don't see it. It's only in fullscreen and only valve games.

Graphics drivers are up to date. (I have a 2060 super)

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by JustGamingBOT:

I am using a GPU to play, i did not change any settings in any of those games ive reinstalled them several times, I changed to a 144hz monitor that did have a greenish tint but its not the same and i fixed that in the monitors own settings. I can try screenshots with my phone when i take a printscreen you don't see it. It's only in fullscreen and only valve games.

Graphics drivers are up to date. (I have a 2060 super)

So you haven't checked for color profiles?

[JustGamingBOT]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by JustGamingBOT:

I am using a GPU to play, i did not change any settings in any of those games ive reinstalled them several times, I changed to a 144hz monitor that did have a greenish tint but its not the same and i fixed that in the monitors own settings. I can try screenshots with my phone when i take a printscreen you don't see it. It's only in fullscreen and only valve games.

Graphics drivers are up to date. (I have a 2060 super)

So you haven't checked for color profiles?

I have tried changing the colors via my monitor settings, Windows colors management and in nvidia settings all of them still have the greenish tint. Right now im just using my custom windows color profile.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/469890345921019925/684348865759281152/unknown.png

[JustGamingBOT]

I tried taking a picture with my phone but you can't see it so i just recreated it as accurately as i could:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/469890345921019925/684349631030755349/unknown.png

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by JustGamingBOT:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

So you haven't checked for color profiles?

I have tried changing the colors via my monitor settings, Windows colors management and in nvidia settings all of them still have the greenish tint. Right now im just using my custom windows color profile.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/469890345921019925/684348865759281152/unknown.png

OK, custom profile. Disable it so you'll run the default profile. That should turn your desktop yellow/green. Adjust monitor settings afterwards.

[JustGamingBOT]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by JustGamingBOT:

I have tried changing the colors via my monitor settings, Windows colors management and in nvidia settings all of them still have the greenish tint. Right now im just using my custom windows color profile.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/469890345921019925/684348865759281152/unknown.png

OK, custom profile. Disable it so you'll run the default profile. That should turn your desktop yellow/green. Adjust monitor settings afterwards.

Okay, I tried this. but i could never get the same colors like i have now. Because my Asus monitor uses this stupid 6 color hue and saturation ♥♥♥♥ instead of just a normal RGB slider. I've tweaked and tweaked and tweaked and it just never looks right. But thanks for the help atleast i know what the problem is.

[ReBoot]

Well, you can still run Source games in a borderless window, at least.

[JustGamingBOT]

It's just weird that its only valve games and not anythings else because, every other steam game is fine. out of the 100+ games i have its only games that use source engine. just kinda annoying

[Hennix]

maybe turn off colour correction in source games graphic settings

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by JustGamingBOT:

It's just weird that its only valve games and not anythings else because, every other steam game is fine. out of the 100+ games i have its only games that use source engine. just kinda annoying

You haven't tried all of them, have you? Games disregarding color profiles ain't news. I had problems similar to yours with my monitor & the Killing Floor games.

[JustGamingBOT]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by JustGamingBOT:

It's just weird that its only valve games and not anythings else because, every other steam game is fine. out of the 100+ games i have its only games that use source engine. just kinda annoying

You haven't tried all of them, have you? Games disregarding color profiles ain't news. I had problems similar to yours with my monitor & the Killing Floor games.

I so far have tried
Fallout 1-4
Ark
the forest
Arma 3
The binding of isaac
borderlands 2
cluster truck
CS 1.6
CSS (had it)
CSGO (had it)
Cube world
Cuphead
Dead by daylight
DBXV2
Skyrim
Skyrim SE
The escapist
Gmod (had it)
GTAV
Half life
Half life Source (had it)
Half life 2 (and both episodes) (had it)
The isle
Just Cause 3
L4d and l4d2 (had it)
Portal and portal 2 (had it)
Risk of rain 2
Rocket leaugue
Space engineers
Team fortess 2 (had it)
and the Wither 3: Wild hunt.

EDIT: Sorry Half life and CS 1.6 did not have it

[ReBoot]

Add Killing Floor 1 on the list of games disregarding the color profile. Not sure about KF2 though.