Adjusting Video/Graphics Card Settings to Increase Brightness?

Hey.

I was just wondering if there is a specific way to modify the graphics card settings (saturation, hue, etc) to increase the screen brightness on a notebook with ATI graphics?

Thanks.

 

max screen brightness is a physical property of the screen.. not the gpu

 

. . . Not exactly. While you do have a hardware limitation, it is still possible to use software to try to increase the perceived brightness. I am not really sure where ATI lets you do it, but you can do it with any Nvidia card just by loading the Nview manager (right-click on the desktop or go to the control panel, ect).

BASICALLY though, your screen may or may not respond well to an increase in brightness / contrast (might get really washed out). But if you compensate by lowering or increasing Gamma, sometimes you get an overall more balanced image that looks brighter than when you started, with more well defined blacks and overall detail. But no, out in broad daylight or whatever you will still be limited by the brightness of the screen itself.

My current laptop it really pretty good at stock settings, I only tweaked it a little to try to get a little more contrast from it (back light bleed spoils that a lot however). My first laptop benefited a lot from tweaking however, gave me some really inky blacks. Grainy as hell however.

 

In ATI Catalyst you can control gamma, brightness and contrast under color settings. More also under video.