M17X screen is SO DIM! ?

I freaking knew it! I had a feeling this thing had a ambient light sensor, just like my precision m6400! But on that i can turn it off which i do most of the time, someone call up Alienware up and as them about this, this is so freaking annoying, i hate when i go from a dark background to a light one it dims here and there, it shouldn't dim at all, why why must it be so annoying in terms of having an awesome machine like this and go through these types of things! An suggestions guys?

 

ok...it's NOT an ambient light sensor. it's probably a chip somewhere on the lcd that determines the brightness of the screen content based on the colours that adjusts the brightness of the screen.

but i'm experiencing it the other way round - a dark background/content makes my screen darker and light background/content. so while using firefox on the NBR forums, my screen is bright and while browsing the steam site, forums, it becomes darker. it has nothing to do with the ambient light of where you are.

i find that very annoying because all content is brighter or darker than it needs to be, except for mid-range-brightness content. it works especially badly for games like L4D and Dead Space because the games already have contrasting bright and dark areas and the M17x just makes the difference worse, and not how the game designers intended it. also annoying when the game lets you calibrate screen brightness (like L4D has) because the calibration effort is wasted.

afaik, there's no software way to disable it (it's not auto dim, that's "idleness" related). if someone found the chip that had it, i love to yank it out if possible.

i really HATE auto-adjusting screens on computers. it's acceptable only on mobile phones.

i wonder if the RGBLED screens have this feature as well.

 

Can Anyone tell me, if the auto dimming thing is still feature on the M17x r2 With the RGB Led display?

 

I went to best buy before odering a M17X. What they told me About laptops hold ture.

Apple computers use led Rbg screens same as the M17x R2
Alienware M17x depending on verson is lcd or RBG screens.

So the screen can be change.

So what I did was walk to the Apple computers look at the screens and walk back to Other section Just to understand how bright the screen is.

I can put my two other laptops side by side by my M17x and there is a screen change. There no dark sides.

Yes ThaDutchy Mine automaticly dimming. But if I am not useing the system I put it in sleep mode or hibernation mode. How ever it spelled

 

he is referring to the auto dimming when the content on the screen is mostly light or dark, not the power saving feature built into windows 7

 

No need for the rest of your post after that opening line.

Bravo!

 

RGB baby, RGB!! lol, anyways, I haven't noticed any auto dimming. Just my reflection. That's all.

 

I briefly owned the M17x-R1 with "DUAL LAMP" screen LOL. That was one of the worst screens I have owned. It was almost exactly the same in quality as the single lamp I had on a nx860xl gateway and the original screen on the gateway p7800fx (forget name) I bought from bestbuy. They had the same exact qualities. They had extreme graininess, really crappy lighting uniformity ie parts of the screen were brighter than the rest (halo effect) and it wasn't even that bright to begin with. Just a terrible ugly set of screens.

 

So I'm glad alienware decided to listen to me and introduce the RGB LED to the M17x. Yeah it was my idea j/k.

 

Yep, that sums it up exactly. I came from owning an XPS M1730 to now having the M17x 1200p, and in the beginning, I thought this display sucked. As I've grown used to it, I am seeing the areas where this screen is superior to the XPS. The "autodim" feature is a bit annoying and is purely driven by what's being displayed, not ambient light. Cell phones use actual ambient light...seems to be a better deal.

I understand why it's being done, but I can't understand why they don't allow us to turn this off. The only time I find it really annoying is when I use this thing in my office at work, under florescent lights. The desktop is hard to see because of the dimming of the dark background.

No utopia...there's a tradeoff regardless. I just plug the HDMI into my 46" LCD Samsung and problem solved.

 

Okay, most of the info I found on here was a question of a bulb being out, it seems. I don't know if that would be an issue with the RGB LED screen (I have an m17x-r2), but my screen is now dim. Here's what happened.

I was playing Dawn of War and it BSOD'd...just a random crash. The screen brightness was fine up until this point. It rebooted, and for some odd reason in the space between the BSOD and the boot screen the display has been abnormally dim. FN+F4 does nothing. Adjusting the brightness through the Catalyst doesn't alter the actual screen brightness. The automatic dimmer is shut off. Connecting it to my TV via HDMI gives a normal brightness.

I'm at a loss. I'd like to get a couple outside opinions before I resort to tech support/perhaps sending my machine off. The AlienFX still works on my display, so I don't think it's a wire, and like I said, something tweaked in the space of literally a second. Any ideas/references/tips? I'd appreciate any help at all and will provide anything needed.

 

Did you check the ati software, check the desktop video properties you may have to set them back to default correcting gamma and brightness.. I had this fluke happen before upon windows update. I rebooted and the screen was very dim and i reset the video option in the ATI cc and all was back to normal.