Urgent Question for G75/G55 Owners regarding brightness issue

Do G75 owners suffer from the brightness issue where it automatically goes maximum 100% brightness whenever you fire up a specific game or program and sometimes even when logging off when you have it set at the brightness setting you are comfortable with and that could be 40%/50%/60% and so on and no matter what you do, the brightness setting is forced to 100% brightness that is so annoying and it hurts your eyes that you have to manually readjust with the FN+key.

I'll give you a specific example, when runing WoW, before i fire it up, i have my brightness setting where it is comfortable for me which is 60%, as soon as i fire up WoW, the brightness setting goes to maximum 100% then i have to readjust the brightness setting back to 60%. Then if i have to alt+tab out of the game, the brightness goes back to 100% again then readjust via fn+key again then when i alt+tab back to game, the brightness setting goes back to 100% again. See the horror issue here?

I have this issue on my G55 and I have a chance to get rid of my G55 for a G75 so that is why I'm asking if any of the G75 owners have this annoying issue.

Thank You.

 

Have you tried modifying the Power Profile setting in Power4Gear and setting it to the desired brightness %? It sounds like the power profiles cycle between some resting profile and some gaming profile.

You could also download F.lux.I highly recommend it.

I've never heard of this issue before and it doesn't really seem urgent.

Edit: Does WoW not have a "Use desktop brightness" setting?

 

I tested it with and w/o the power4gear app. In fact i uninstalled it and the issue is still there when using just the regular windows power plan. The WoW use desktop brigtness setting didn't help regardless if it is unchecked or checked.

The problem is not just with WoW, Crysis and some other games forces the brightness to maximum of 100%. Even when logging off it forces the brightness issue to 100% for 3-5 sec then goes back to user preferred brightness setting. But in games, it forces brightness issue to 100%.

I don't have this issue on my former G73 and the recent M14x R2 which is why I want to make sure it does not exist on the G75 before I pull the trigger on it.

 

That's interesting. My G53sw, when I take it on the go and boot it up when it had been plugged into AC power, it always first boots in high performance mode with 100% brightness but when it gets to Windows, detects it is running on battery and switches to Battery Saving and 0% brightness. This is with the Power4Gear. As soon as I plug it into the AC cord, it switches to High Performance and 100% brightness. Maybe with newer P4Gear, it detects that you are running a game and automatically switches to the High Performance/100% brightness profile? What power profile do you normally surf the web/do casual tasks in?

I'll look into some games and see if I can reproduce it. I'd also like to apologize if I came off as rude earlier.

I'd really recommend F.lux again though if the brightness really bothers you. It uses zero resources, takes about 5 seconds to set up, and is an incredible reliever of eye-strain. Not to mention, it turns off during gaming so that they are not affected.