HP Elitebook colour /contrast display accuracy issue

[petemel49]

Product: HP EliteBook 865 16 inch G11 Notebook PC (8T644AV)

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11

There are a few posts re weak colours or pale contrast on later EliteBook models (and others).

 I have an older (smaller) HP notebook that looks much better than the newer, expensive models (are you listening HP?)

Anyhoo, after much fiddling, the tweaks for me that worked to improve the contrast, to the best extent they could are set out below.  Colour and contrast seem intrinsically linked. Not all machines have the following functionalities:

• In the Windows Search box at the bottom left of the screen, search for Display Colour Calibration and adjust to suit.  In Windows 11, curiously the facility to adjust contrast is not there !  (see the last tweak)

• Search Adjust ClearType text . Go through the steps and select the type of text design/crispness that you wish to see. 

• Go to Settings>System>Display>Adaptive Colour.  Switch Adaptive Colour to 'On'. Although not specifically a contrast setting , it made a positive change.

• Settings-Accessibility-Color filters. Click Color settings to 'on', and select the top option (Red-Green, green weak). Then I scrolled down to Intensity and Color Boost and pumped them way up.

• ***  BEST TWEAK ***  To adjust the contrast further (depending you have either Nvidia or AMD), go to your Desktop page and right click.  In my case (AMD), it gave me access to the AMD software.  Once the AMD software is open, it gives you a number of options at the top left of the page.  One of these is 'Display'.  On the right hand side of the Display page, there are a number of settings that you adjust by slider.  At the bottom right, disable Colour Deficiency Correction.  I know this sounds counter-intuitive.  After that, play with the sliders.  My screen is now a lot crisper! 

[leojohn076]

Thanks for sharing such detailed tweaks!

I’ve also noticed the display contrast and color depth being noticeably weaker on newer EliteBooks compared to older models. Your suggestions, especially the AMD Display tweaks, helped a lot. Disabling the Colour Deficiency Correction made a noticeable improvement.

For anyone looking into external options, I came across some display calibration resources  that might be useful.

Appreciate the effort you put into this post  really helped clarify a few things!

[petemel49]

You are very welcome.   I have too much time on my hands.......    Re my Elitebook, I fundamentally object to have to dive down into the bowels of a $3000 machine to get the answers. However I had no choice...............sigh

You mentioned you have some external display calibration resources that might be useful.   I found a few too (DataColour Spyder, DisplayCal) but after tweaking, I was (relatively) happy with a good screen.

My next PC will have an OLED screen.