Laptop screen contrast

[bosscoolo]

On the HP Envy 6-1113TX on windows 8, you can adjust contrast in the intel graphics and media program. Typing Intel graphics and media into search should bring it up. Having said that, I haven't been able to adjust the screen to a brightness and contrast level that I'm happy with. The colours continute to appear very light and bright, and lack depth and richness. This is probably the most disappointing aspect of the laptop so far. Otherwise, I'm so far happy with it...

[Woodwood]

I have a similar problem, videos look  as if the camera'scbeen saturated with too much light and fill-in boxes on forms and in excel are invisible.  I've been using this HP Pavilion dm4 1050ea media(or entertainment centre or whatever name it has) centre for about six months now, and this problem has only just started over the last couple of days.

The solutins offered by other users of this forum do not work for me because I don't have that software.

I have buttons that control the laptop's screen brightness but not contrast (I couldn't see any)

I searched in help for 'Gamma' and found an item called 'calibrate your display' which I worked through, but it did not remedy the problem.

Are there any experts on my model of PC who know how to get the old display settings back ?

Woodwood

26.March.2013 

[Woodwood]

My Pavilion dm4 1050ea under windows 7 has a high contrast mode that I found out about while looking at control panel, under 'optimize display' (make your PC easier to see)

the entry there will tell you how to turn it on/off, on mine it's Alt-Left Shift-PrtScr.

Unfortunately switching between the two contrast modes did not seem to do much to my display

Woodwood

26.March.2013

[IainB]

I learned (from @peter130542 in the discussion thread above) to use the controls in AMD's CCC (Catalyst Control Centre) - this is on an HP ENVY 14-1112TX laptop. CCC gave good control over the contrast/brightness. However, the successive display driver version updates for CCC eventually failed to install, and after a great deal of mucking about, I looked around for an alternative to getting the updated drivers.

What I discovered was that the CCC software is largely unnecessary unless (maybe) you are a games player - which I am not. It seems to be just a fat bloated lump of software.

I made a post at DonationCoder that documented my problem, the discoveries I made, and the final fixes that solved it all, here:
Problems with AMD/ATI Radeon HD 6500M/5600/5700 Series GPU driver/software

If those aren't your display devices, then don't despair, because your display devices just might be coverd in the primary source info where I got the fixes - so read on.

This is from my post at DonationCoder:

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What I found:

• was this very helpful/useful website post at NotebookReview.com: HP Drivers and Software Forum
• From links in that site and others I eventually linked to Guru3D.com downloads - here.

I downloaded the unimpressively-named ATI Tray Tools and installed it - and I uninstalled CCC altogether (which released a surprisingly large amount of disk space).

It is a superb alternative to (and seems better than) CCC. Hooray!
So I was left with a newer driver installed, and something as good as (or better) than CCC.
Now I had the display adjustment capability that I needed.

...

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Hope this is useful or of help to someone.

[794]

I, too, just had this problem. Thought I'd post it here for all to see.

I have an HP Pavillion dv6 with (shitty) Intel HD graphics. Suddenly I couldn't see thin lines or text boxes and stuff.

Found the solution pretty quick, all you gotta do is go to your system tray where there should be the monitor logo which is called Intel(R) HD Graphics. Simply right click on it and open up the Graphics Properties, under the display category on the left click Color Enhancement, and you can adjust your contrast and gamma there. Putting my contrast all the way down and my gamma to 0.7 fixed it for me!

Hope this helps anyone who comes across a similar situation.

[Woodwood]

Thanks 794, my PC (see above) does have this method and it's a lot easier than going through the procedure of setting up the display listed in the now-not-working HP Help Assistant (this has malfunctioned) [search under contrast if I remember right].

Hoewever the problem seems to be ameliorated, my defaults are contrast =50 and gamma = 1 and with these it's not too bad

Woodwood

11.May.2013

[794]

Yeah those were the defaults for me too but with that it was messed up. Don't know these problems suddenly surface, just yesterday my display was fine. Well, fixed now so whatever =p

[KWS219]

Can you please tell me how to find the "system tray"?  

[794]

The system tray is the little up arrow beside your volume and time on the bottom right of your desktop. Just click that.

[KWS219]

Thank you!!!