Author Topic: gamma correction big difference (Read 581 times)

bvanevery · « **on:** June 12, 2022, 07:34:29 AM »

I've never messed with the gamma correction settings before. It's one of the preferences. You move this grey square back and forth as a bar above it changes its black to white gradations. I think the goal is to get the grey square to be next to the same shade on the gradated bar? Well I tried.

Why did I bother to do this? Well with this new laptop of mine, everything looked consistently too dark. I thought it was Microsoft's fault somehow with Windows 11. There is some kind of "content adaptive brightness control", which I turned off. But still my game seemed too dark. So this evening I remembered, hmm, what about gamma correction?

Everything looks so different with higher gamma correction, it's freakin' weird. Planet is kinda washed out and dusty, more like real life Mars. Ugly, to be honest. Trees don't look good either. I think I've overdone it.

Is 1.00 the default? That could be what I started with, but there's no "Restore Default" button for gamma correction. 1.00 seems too dark. 1.10 is a bit brighter without the colors getting too lousy. 1.20 starts to look slightly washed out. 1.30 is noticeably washed out.

Gonna try 1.15 for a bit. Wouldn't it be ironic if the gamma correction process itself, somehow brightened the screen up, not due to gamma correction. Like what underlying weird API layers is it accessing?