HDR settings affecting entire system
Hi there, I'm having a very unusual problem regarding Mass Effect Legendary Edition.
I just started playing Mass Effect 1, and noticed all of my colours were very blown out. I closed the game, and this behaviour continued into Windows, all of the colours were super over-saturated and blown out, even with the game closed, and even after rebooting. Upon further inspection on rebooting the game, I noticed the HDR setting was set to "auto", and though it said HDR was not detected, setting HDR to off (and rebooting the game a few times) fixed the problem for the game, but only the game. Upon exiting the game, now Windows is completely unsaturated and low brightness, like there is a dull grey filter over everything. No matter how high I set my brightness there is no change.
I should add that in my settings in Windows, HDR has never been turned on, I don't even have the option, it says not supported. I can switch between the blown out colours and the washed out colours by changing the HDR setting in Mass Effect, but it's very hard to replicate and takes over a dozen tries of opening and reopening the game. I've rebooted my PC over and over, I've reinstalled my drivers, I've tried different cables, and I've uninstalled and reinstalled the game, but the issue persists.
Please help, I've reached out to EA support but they could not figure out the problem, and redirected me to here. I'm not able to use my PC in this state.
Thank you.
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