Monitor Brightness

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I have my monitor as bright as it goes. Videos are dark... I adjust
brightness on all movies but some of them you can't.
Is there some way to boost my brightness?
 
What Video Card or chip and Monitor do you have? If it's ATI or NVidia
the latest drivers have adjustments for brightness.
 
Hello,

Videos are shown in overlay. You may be adjusting brightness settings in the
video card controls in Desktop mode.

Try switching to overlay mode and adjusting the brightness from there. When
you do so, the effect may not be apparent until you play a video clip.

Alternatively, you can lower the acceleration in Windows Media Player >
Tools > Options > Performance > Video Acceleration and see if it helps.
(keep lowering to the most left notch)

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Chipset: nVida (not sure what else you want here)
Monitor is Sceptre (sort of old). It's not a flat screen.
nVidia GeForce 6100 Graphics Card.

I usually don't run very many items in the system tray. I'm real good about
getting that junk out of the HKLM-Run. No use running something 100% of the
time when you may only use it 1% of the time.
 
JCO wrote
I have my monitor as bright as it goes. Videos are dark... I
adjust brightness on all movies but some of them you can't.
Is there some way to boost my brightness?
Click to expand...

Rich Barry wrote
What Video Card or chip and Monitor do you have? If it's ATI
or NVidia the latest drivers have adjustments for brightness.
Click to expand...
Chipset: nVida (not sure what else you want here)
Monitor is Sceptre (sort of old). It's not a flat screen.
nVidia GeForce 6100 Graphics Card.

I usually don't run very many items in the system tray. I'm real
good about getting that junk out of the HKLM-Run. No use running
something 100% of the time when you may only use it 1% of the time.
Click to expand...

The answer was in the same post...

Since you have an NVidia card - visit Nvidia.com and get the latest unified
driver, install it, and learn to utilize it.
Also - Sceptre, CRT monitor... Could be it is just going out.

However - since you mention that it is mostly movies that are dark, the
adjustments in the video card drivers along with adjustments in whatever
application you are using to play them should help.
 
There are no updates for the GeForce 6100.
The fact that I remove unwanted programs from running in the system tray
should be irrelevant.
You should be able to access everything from the control panel, if
necessary.
I will keep looking... and post an update if I can figure it out.
 
JCO said:
I have my monitor as bright as it goes. Videos are dark... I adjust
brightness on all movies but some of them you can't.
Is there some way to boost my brightness?
Click to expand...

Rich said:
What Video Card or chip and Monitor do you have? If it's ATI or
NVidia the latest drivers have adjustments for brightness.
Click to expand...
Chipset: nVida (not sure what else you want here)
Monitor is Sceptre (sort of old). It's not a flat screen.
nVidia GeForce 6100 Graphics Card.

I usually don't run very many items in the system tray. I'm real
good about getting that junk out of the HKLM-Run. No use running
something 100% of the time when you may only use it 1% of the time.
Click to expand...

Shenan said:
The answer was in the same post...

Since you have an NVidia card - visit Nvidia.com and get the latest
unified driver, install it, and learn to utilize it.
Also - Sceptre, CRT monitor... Could be it is just going out.

However - since you mention that it is mostly movies that are dark,
the adjustments in the video card drivers along with adjustments in
whatever application you are using to play them should help.
Click to expand...
There are no updates for the GeForce 6100.

The fact that I remove unwanted programs from running in the system
tray should be irrelevant.

You should be able to access everything from the control panel, if
necessary.

I will keep looking... and post an update if I can figure it out.
Click to expand...

It was/is irrelevant (to me - at least given the problem at hand) - thus why
I did not understand why YOU posted about it (twice now).

Control Panel --> Display --> Settings --> Advanced and usually the Unified
NVidia Driver has a TAB of its own... By the name of the video card in
question quite often. For some the 'Classic' control panel (NVIDIA) is
easier to navigate. Look at Video Overlay and Color Correction.

So you are running the :

ForceWare Release 90
Version: 93.71
Release Date: November 2, 2006

Driver? http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_93.71.html
 
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