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Laptop: MSI Katana 17 HX
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060
OS: Windows 11
I'm experiencing an unusual screen-dimming issue when launching games through Steam.
Whenever I launch a game, the laptop's display becomes noticeably darker. When I Alt+Tab out of the game, the screen immediately returns to its normal brightness. However, as soon as I switch back to the game, the display becomes dark again.
Things I've already tried:
Disabling HDR.
Switching between fullscreen and borderless windowed mode.
Switching between NVIDIA GPU-only mode and MSHybrid mode.
Disabling the Steam Overlay.
Checking Intel Graphics Command Center for Display Power Saving Technology (the option is unavailable).
Checking Windows adaptive brightness settings (the option is unavailable).
Checking MSI Center (no Gaming Mode available).
Checking NVIDIA Control Panel and switching to Reference mode.
Checking NVIDIA Game Filters (no active filters).
Checking Windows Color Management (no ICC profiles listed).
None of these changes fixed the issue.
One additional observation: screenshots taken in affected games also appear dark when viewed outside the game.
Has anyone experienced something similar, particularly on an MSI laptop? Could this be related to gamma correction, DirectX, NVIDIA drivers, or Windows display handling?
I'm trying to find a solution that fixes the issue globally rather than having to adjust every game's brightness individually.
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Hello Filip Michalski,
Thanks for replying.
In this case, let us do a little test to see if it helps.
I'm waiting for your reply.
Hello Filip Michalski,
Thanks for replying.
May I have a short video of the screen recording to check for you? Please remember to not include any personal information in it. And please use the internal screen recording in the Game Bar, since I want to make sure where the dimming come from.
Unfortunately, the game bar won't record me alt + tabbing to a different app for whatever reason. Also, the thing is that when I enter a game through Steam, the screen dims, when I exit via closing the game or alt + tab, the screen brightness comes back to normal. I can also add that I've tried using different apps to clip it, such as steelseries GG and medal, but none of them can capture the issue(the information about the screenshots appearing dark is false and I apologize for that, I thought it did appear darker) the issue still remains though. Waiting for your reply.
Hello Filip Michalski,
If the photo is not possible. May I have a screenshot of the normal desktop and the screen in the game? For the best results, I'd suggest make a capture when the game screen is supposed to be bright.
As I said, the screenshots do not capture the dimmed screen, they capture the normal brighteness, here you go though.
Hello Filip Michalski,
Thanks for replying.
That is weird, captures cannot record the dimming means that is not something can be recorded from the system. But only Steam have this issue means this is not something exclusive to the physical screen either.
I'll see what I can do. I'll keep you updated.
Hello Filip Michalski,
Let do a simple test here. When the game is in borderless mode, press the Windows button to bring the Start menu (The game should still be in the background). How is the brightness shows?
When I bring the Start menu, the brightness goes back to normal.
Hello Filip Michalski,
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Hello Filip Michalski,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.
Before we proceed further, I'd want to ask some questions to better understand this.
I'm waiting for your reply.
