Re: Screen has shade of gray PLS HELP!!!!!!!
BTW Even all of my applications such as games also have a gray shade except for origin games.
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- EA_Darko
Community Manager
Hey @NikodemPlaysYT are you seeing this issue with everything but Origin?
If so then it sounds like it may be a system issue, can you grab me a screenshot of what it is that you are seeing?
Darko - EA_Darko
Hey @NikodemPlaysYT did you get this sorted?
Darko
I got a similar problem today after playing battlefront 2. The screen lookes like it's covered in a grey filter. In all games I've tried (origin and not origin) the color and contrast of my predator screen returns. That means gaming is fine, but every other time, like browsing or working in excel, there's the gray filter. So annoying. Why would Battlefront cause something like that? It also only affects my screen connected to the graphics card. Attached is a picture of file explorer across both screens, with gaming screen to the left.
I think I solved it by going in to NVIDIA control panel and changing some settings.
Edit: So basically I changed the colour settings in the NVIDIA control panel and my monitor in HDR mode. It feels more like a counter fix to the grey filter rather than removing it. It's still there. When I change between HDR mode and any other screen settings (on the monitor settings, using the buttons on the monitor) the grey filter disappear for a split second. So it's still there. I've never seen anything like this before. Games normally take control of the screen settings if I understand it correctly. But it seems Battlefront 2 did something, and there seems to be no fix for it...
Some observations (I will refer to the problem as the "grey filter" because it washes out the screen colors and contrasts:
-ex Minecraft: fullscreen mode=normal colors, windowed view=grey filter
-In games = no grey filter
-Outside games = grey filter, like browser, word, Netflix etc
-Screenshot = no grey filter
-Changing between HDR and no HDR makes the screen normal (in regards of colors) for a split second. Meaning the grey filter is still there on top of everything else.
-Reinstalling display adapters does nothing
-Display Color Calibration does nothing - as if the grey filter has nothing to do with the display
-changing NVIDIA control panel settings might do some counter against the grey filter
-monitor HDR mode might have higher impact than the NVIDIA control panel settings
-before playing star wars battlefront 2 14th of February 2021 caused the grey screen
-playing star wars battlefront 2 previously (far back as over a year ago) didn't cause any grey filter
-my secondary screen connected to the same graphics cards doesn't show the grey filer
-changing the HDMI port on the graphics card did nothing.
Conclusion
-wherever this grey filter is located, it's connected to the screen it happened to.
-The grey filter is on top of everything except when fullscreening a game
-HDR mode is not a fix, it's a counter
- EA_Darko
Great to hear that you got it sorted @LordRoarth.
Darko
Hey, sorry i was away.
Its with everything, even origin. My screen has a shade of gray still and i found a way to kinda fix it but its not fully fixed yet. I will try to post a picture later of what it first looked like (second screen of mine) versus what it looks like now (my first screen). Even when i messed around with NVIDIA settings it didnt work.
- EA_Darko
Hey @NikodemPlaysYT, if it is there at all times then the best thing to do is to try playing around with your image settings both on the PC and monitor.
Darko
The best thing i found is to change the brightness with Calibrate Display Color from windows itself but after that i have 2 options (kinda) to change my contrast but i cant change that because its saying to use the controls on display but i dont see anything, and my keys dont work like wasd, or my arrows, numpad, nothing works to change my contrast and thats the only thing thats wrong with my pc. Even with the settings from my pc i couldnt find anything that could help me out.
- EA_Darko
Hey @NikodemPlaysYT try swapping the display cable to see if you see a difference?
A lot of the time a grey screen can point to an issue with the cable or GPU itself.
Darko
- @EA_Darko
So basically the grey filter is till there and messes things up. All colors and resolution are still off, just not as bad as without HDR activated. Working from home is annoying because of this. And recording games that doesn't go full screen is just garbage now. Some hours of Half-Life alyx recordings are useless because of the grey filter. I also had to download a new codec to even view the videos recorded with the HDR activated. Is there really no fix to this? Do I really have to toss an expensive pc-monitor just because something is messing with the interface between the graphics card and the screen settings? - Update: After some more testing. I found that if I use the display cable on my monitor instead of the HDMI, the monitor is recognized as a new monitor and the grey filter is gone. This is more a method of going around the problem. If it's a new screen, aka not related to any settings and as stated before, the grey filter must be connected to the monitor used when it appeared. Recognizing it as a new monitor thus appears to fix the problem.
In order to actually fix the problem, the files that identifies the screen via windows? must be found and deleted. I have yet to find this out. hello Darko,
This excact problem just happened to me. Is there any way to fix it???
Did you ever figure this out???
LOL so you replied to everyone saying it could not be the game and must be a "system issue" (based on absolutely nothing and with no explanation given) and then somebody finally does your job for you and you're willing to admit people needs to follow those steps? Holy crap. No wonder everybody considers EA to be a complete joke.
