HP Radiance Display Issues

I have the radiance display for my Envy 14, and it has been having some (pretty serious) problems recently.

When i use the "power saving GPU" on battery, very often (not every time) the contrast on the screen starts getting washed out to the point of everything being unreadable.

This also happens whenever i watch tv shows on Hulu. The display will flicker and get brighter and darker randomly when I'm in full screen mode, and when i put the video back into window mode, every part of the screen is very washed out.

I can solve these issues by using the built in ATI video card option, but that EATS battery, and I need my computer to last the day of classes.

I find it ridiculous that a laptop that cost $1400, and has a "top of the line!!!" display would do this. I searched google but either people have been phrasing it differently than I have, or this problem is limited to me (cool.)

Anyone hear of this happening / have a solution?

Thanks for any help

 

never seen this happen.

if possible turn off hardware acceleration.

also you may just wanna set it to balanced since I've noticed high performance AND power saver can cause weird issues to show up.


case in point: high performance, swap to igp, maybe swap back, put to sleep, wake up, enjoy your startling grey artifact lines across the screen. (this also may be just a "put to sleep while on high performance don't swap gpu thing. been awhile since someone mentioned it)

 

I have always had hulu play videos with no hardware acceleration, and it happens with videos played in VLC also. Basically anything that takes up full-screen mode = washed out screen, almost no contrast.

Is there a way to turn off hardware acceleration in VLC? Or does this not matter?

 

it may not matter.

I've never seen this happen on my envy.

haven't really tried playing stuff on the IGP, gonna mess around for a bit see if I can replicate it for ya.

 

This is due to the intel battery saving settings. You need to go into the Intel Graphics control panel and then click on the power tab. Go to power features and look at the plan settings and either turn off display power saving technology or make sure its at least not all the way to the right (one notch to the left should work fine). This should stop the weird contrast issues.