Acer Monitor Is Brighter After Upgrading Video Card

[Vyndicu]

Pretty much what the title says. I used to have an AMD HD 5570 Video card. The monitor didn't look so bright back then.

When I swap out the video card and connect both monitor (Acer and another monitor I forget brand name). One look the same "bright" as before but Acer look like it is in perpetual sunshine glare mode while using Nvidia's control panel to set bright/contrast to 50% with a GTX 660 card.

Googling this seem to yield result that are contradictory or even just flat out unhelpful. I would like to figure out why my monitor is so bright despite using the same cable/setup as before except for swapping out video card.

[*****User5671089]

I have this exact same situation! Since 2002 I have bought 6 nvidia cards, all of them had perfect color and brightness / contrast. Then a few months ago I bought an XFX AMD R9 270X and right off the bat I noticed issues. First the screen was underscanned (too small) at native res, in the AMD control panel by default it scaled down my screen size like it was doing it for an old TV. After that I noticed the colors were not pure, it was DARK! Most of my games were very dark and playing with the brightness settings in the games made it look awful. The AMD control panel has adjustments for brightness and contrast and that worked to get it almost like it was on my nvidia cards. But hey it should be perfect. I'm still not happy with the video card, its powerful and cool running but it's second best quality wise. The blacks look off and the colors all have a hint of some other color, like green or blue, just makes my ACER monitor look like crap. Thank you for posting this in the forum, I contacted XFX support and they said I was crazy too. Just to let you know, I replaced, my mainboard, cpu (switched to an intel from amd), changed the hdmi cable, used a different monitor and reloaded my windows 8 OS from disk and downloaded the latest drivers. It is the video card or maybe the video card software.