Bad brightness/contrast with streaming

[reflex33]

Went do streaming today (Assassin's Creed Syndicate) and the colors/contrast are quite messed up. Very high brightness/contrast to where you can't play.

So a few things I tried. Made sure I had the latest drivers on the host. Made sure I had the latest drivers on the client. I installed another game on the client (Pinball Arcade) and made sure contrast was ok when playing local. Played on the host machine without streaming and made sure it was ok there. Tried switching back to software encoder, but same thing there to.

So it only shows up when I'm streaming. Any ideas? Does this have anything to do with the recent changes people are discussing? Switch to the beta?

[reflex33]

Update: weird... so the client machine I am using is a laptop with an nvidia 860M and an Intel 4600HD. If I use the nvidia control panel and force the streaming client to use the nvidia card (sarcastic thank you very much Optimus) then everything works.

The decoder doesn't change though... "DXVA variable length decoder, no film grain" either way.

So I guess I fixed it... but any thoughts as to why this started happening would be great.

[MichaelMKenny]

I had this exact same problem a few months back, it took me an entire evening to track down the problem, until I finally remembered that earlier that day I had messed around with some settings in the Intel Graphics Control Panel.

Somehow I had set a display profile for what intel calls "video" (not an overall display profile). Steam's streaming is counted as video which therefore meant colors were all weird. Resetting the settings in the control panel to their defaults solved the issue for me. This explains why setting streaming to use the nvidia gnu solved it for you.

I don't know if this is what is causing the issue for you, but this definitely solved for me. Hope this helps :)

[reflex33]

So what did you do to put it back to the default, because I'm not sure where in those settings I should be looking. I see the overall display profile thing, but if it's something else in not sure what.

[MichaelMKenny]

Unfortunately it's been a while since I fixed it and I can't remember the details of exactly what I did. I don't currently have it installed so I can't go back in and check. But I think when you first start the control panel click "Video" and then click "Restore Defaults", maybe.

Sorry I cannot be of more help :)

[reflex33]

No thank you a lot. Either way it works now :)

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[MoA]

yes thanks, Yumyulack
I found it
its intel graphics control panel ->video
and select DARKEN VIDEO

[Comfie]

Just found this thread, was experimenting with streaming Forza Horizon 5 from my gaming PC to my laptop and had the same brightness problem. Thanks, fiddling with Intel Graphics Control Panel on the laptop did the trick.

Another thing my friend suggested is to disable HDR on both the host PC and in the game's video settings.