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    NP9380 Dynamic Contrast?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Bikuro, Sep 22, 2013.

  1. Bikuro

    Bikuro Notebook Geek

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    Ok, I'm not entirely sure if it's because of dynamic contrast or anything. But whatever feature it is that makes the screen brighter when looking at something bright and darker when looking or watching something dark is bugging me.

    I already turned off the Dynamic Contrast on the Nvidia Control Panel, and it's still happening. I don't understand why. Is there anything I else I should turn off? I'm on Windows 7 by the way.

    I also just got the laptop back from the shop yesterday. Never really noticed this happening before since I was more preoccupied with the GPU problem I had before sending it out.

    Some help/insight would be greatly appreciated.
     
    Bikuro, Sep 22, 2013
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    Bikuro, Sep 22, 2013
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    Do you have windows 8? if so right click on your battery icon then go to power options then whatever plan you are using click where it says "change plan settings".

    In the window that pops up click on change advanced power settings then expand the display tab and right there it says enable adaptive brightness.

    You're welcome :)
     
    Aztek87, Sep 23, 2013
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    Nope, running Windows 7 Ultimate.

    Thanks, I've looked in the Power Settings before, but didn't realize that was what it was because I set my language to Japanese. Looks like that one option was it. Funny thing though, it was the only thing under display that was in Japanese, everything else was in English. Oh well, thanks again.
     
    Bikuro, Sep 23, 2013
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    No problem, it really is an annoying feature hehe.
     
    Aztek87, Sep 23, 2013
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    Looking at this: Adjust your monitor's brightness and contrast makes me think it wasn't Adaptive Brightness that I tinkered with. The options weren't Enable or Disable, they were "None" then some levels of 1 through 5. Adaptive Brightness wasn't there at all.

    I set the language back to English, but the text on that option was still in Japanese, so still dunno what I actually changed.
     
    Bikuro, Sep 23, 2013
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    Adaptive brightness uses your webcam's light sensor to adjust the monitor's backlighting based on how much ambient light is hitting the screen. Some LED TVs have this too. Your issue sounds more like a local dimming thing, if I understood correctly; which as far as I know, laptop screens do not tout. So your issue may actually be related to dynamic contrast ratio if you have software supporting it.
     
    Prostar Computer, Sep 25, 2013
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