First post, by Caesum
I bought a new laptop recently and since then I've been noticing that more and more games are shockingly dark compared to when I played them on my older laptop. I've been looking around and honestly I don't know what to do anymore. I am using a two display setup, one is a 2560 x 1440 (QHD) 165Hz built in display and the other 920x1080p 60Hz external display.
It seems that whenever a game uses a fullscreen resolution smaller than 1176x664, the entire screen becomes significantly darker. Meaning every game with 640x480, 800x600 or even 1024x768 resolution is extremely dark. It doesn't seem to be related particular games or DirectX version (happens in 5-8 and 9, not sure about newer). Interestingly enough, when I print screen such a game, the picture actually looks correct (attached a mockup screen of the issue).
I tried the external display on another laptop and the games looked fine there, so it's not a monitor issue. I have also checked if maybe my monitor has different settings for each resolutions, but also no, they stay the same.
This is extremely annoying, especially in games like Black Mirror 1, where dgvoodoo2 doesn't work to well, so I cannot upscale resolution.
Does anyone know how to fix that?
My specs:
Laptop Lenovo Legion 5 15ACH6H
AMD Ryzen 5 5600H (3,30Ghz) with Radeon Graphics + Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 6023 MB VRAM
16 GB RAM
SSD Samsung MZVLB1T0HBLR-000L2
Lith-Polymer battery 60Wh 15.36 V/17.37V
230 WAT Power Brick
2560 x 1440 (QHD) 165Hz (with 60Hz option too)
Windows 11 Home 64-bit