Is Anyone Using A Gaming Laptop? Serious Issue Here, Check If Your Laptop Has It!

[MagnusFarseeR]

The colors simply look washed out on my desktop. I have tried configuring nvidia settings for hours but nothing works. I am sure this is related to this gaming laptop being unable to display a full dynamic range. This is horrible. Why can't it do this? My old HP laptop looks better than this in terms of viewing a browser/tile/icon colors.

It has a warm/yellow color tint and I can't seem to get rid of it.

There is simply no option to change the Output Colour Format/Output Dynamic Range, is this the same for all gaming laptops?

https://external-preview.redd.it/HhZomjL5iJANMjJfdhdgiHExSa8gbvumrexGayKEPeE.png?auto=webp&s=27f22a243e45a9af0ba01331b892463fd81fc4f3


Here is a picture of my desktop.

https://i.postimg.cc/6qpV6rd4/pic1.jpg

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Laptop = you have OEM drivers installed = which means you need to wipe all of those out in order to make such changes. The OEM drivers are very dumbed down and don't have such features.

Any Laptop user, the best thing you can do to it after buying it is wiping the drive clean and then do a clean install of JUST the OS you want on it that can work on it; such as Win10 64bit or a Linux distro. A clean install of Win10 64bit 21H1 is a good idea, after all partitions are wiped from the drive first. This means no junk, period. And no ridiculous multiple partitions that OEMs put on there. No one needs them. Gain back the full space of the drive you paid for.

Once the OS is a clean/fresh install, get all the official drivers.
Only get from the OEM support page things the laptop may need that you can't get elsewhere, such as Lighting or Fan speed control driver/software or the Touchpad driver/software. The drivers for the Chipset, NVME, GPUs, Audio, LAN, WIFI, BT; all of these can be downloaded from the chipset makers sites directly.

If do not want to wipe the laptop clean, download and use the DDU app in order to properly and safely wipe out the Chipset and all GPU drivers.

[Illusion of Progress]

That screenshot looks absolutely normal to me, and that would be expected if the color issues are occurring not on the rendering end but on the display end.

Are you connecting this via a cable to an external display? Or are you comparing them natively? That part isn't clear to me.

If it's the former, and two devices have different results on the same display, follow the advice above.

If it's the latter, there's probably nothing you can do, as it sounds like the newer one probably has a lesser quality display in some regards. What are the exact models of the old laptop and the new one?

[Cathulhu]

Make sure the videodriver is set to full RGB range. Common cause of washed out colors.

[InfinityJosh]

I tried too to do a fresh install on Laptop but it doesn’t work well like on a desktop, there are some keys and functions which can’t be overwritten it seems.

[MagnusFarseeR]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Make sure the videodriver is set to full RGB range. Common cause of washed out colors.

Where can I change video driver settings? It simply doesn't appear in the nvidia control panel.

[Fajita Jim]

Originally posted by PeterPecker:

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Make sure the videodriver is set to full RGB range. Common cause of washed out colors.

Where can I change video driver settings? It simply doesn't appear in the nvidia control panel.

In the nVidia Control Panel, under Display, select Change Resolution. At the bottom of that panel make sure output color format is RGB and Output Dynamic Range is set to Full.

[Illusion of Progress]

OP didn't answer all questions.

Is this laptop being connected to an external display that also worked fine with the prior laptop?

Or...

Is this just being compared to the prior laptop? If so, what is the exact brand and model of both the old and new laptop?

Screenshot is fine so colors on the rendering side are probably fine. I'm still guessing the new laptop just has a poorer display in some regards but it's just a guess for now until more information is known.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It doesn't appear because you don't have the Drivers.
You MUST disable the auto driver installer feature of Windows.
Then run DDU and wipe out the OEM or MS drivers.
Then install the one from NVIDIA.

[sbok]

I think it's just the gaming laptop screen's panel manufacture that sets it as it is. I have no control over my gaming laptop screen.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The screen matters not, its all controlled by the GPU.

[MagnusFarseeR]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

It doesn't appear because you don't have the Drivers.
You MUST disable the auto driver installer feature of Windows.
Then run DDU and wipe out the OEM or MS drivers.
Then install the one from NVIDIA.

Can you please give me a step by step on how to do this? I don't know where to do this. I was thinking it doesn't let me change those settings because this is an IPS panel.

I don't know how I would do this, it is a Lenovo gaming laptop and it came with Windows pre-installed but perhaps there is something I can do in the pre-installation.

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

Originally posted by PeterPecker:

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Make sure the videodriver is set to full RGB range. Common cause of washed out colors.

Where can I change video driver settings? It simply doesn't appear in the nvidia control panel.

Actually, this is incorrect. You want to set it to limited, not full. You only set it to full if your display supports it (which happens to be unlikely).
If you were to plug the hdmi cable into a full color range tv, then you would set it to full. I'm using limited because that's all my tv supports. If you have a limited display and you set it to full, you will lose shades of dark grey. Setting the display to limited will gain these shades back.
Cheers

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Download CPUZ app from CPUID.com

Install it and run it.
Once it's up and running, click Validate > tick Extreme OC box > click Submit.

Once Web browser loads up, copy and paste the provided Web address into a post here. This will share your PC Specs with us.

Then I can link all your official drivers.

For the DDU app, I have instructions here: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Master_Race_Geeks/discussions/0/1621724915801469252/

[MagnusFarseeR]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Download CPUZ app from CPUID.com

Install it and run it.
Once it's up and running, click Validate > tick Extreme OC box > click Submit.

Once Web browser loads up, copy and paste the provided Web address into a post here. This will share your PC Specs with us.

Then I can link all your official drivers.

For the DDU app, I have instructions here: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Master_Race_Geeks/discussions/0/1621724915801469252/

Okay, here it is.

https://valid.x86.fr/zkxcgg

My intention here is to make the Output Colour Format/Output Dynamic appear in the Nvidia control panel. It might not be supported since this is a IPS panel on a gaming laptop.

I wanna at least make it is it doesn't have that warm yellow tint spectrum anymore.

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Gaming-Laptops/Legion-Y540-display-colour-is-too-warm/m-p/4497799?page=2

The last poster here found a solution but this frustrates me since he used intel graphics command to do it, I have a AMD CPU so I can't use this. It seems intel graphics controller has better options for configuring it.

It is a lenovo legion 5 , it has a "hybrid" option which I think makes it so the integrated CPU GPU graphics is used when you are on your desktop then the 1660ti is used when you play a game.

I tried messing with it on Hybrid mode and the radeon graphics didn't really make much of a difference to get rid of this warm yellow tint.

[emoticorpse]

It looks normal to me for the most part, but if you are seeing a kind of offset in the color try manually adjusting the color strengths.