Screen has shade of gray PLS HELP!!!!!!!
So, i was playing Battlefront II campaign. I finished a bunch of missions and decided i wanted to play online. But when i quit campaign my game was loading for more than 5 mins so i closed the game w...
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BTW Even all of my applications such as games also have a gray shade except for origin games.
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
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Great to hear that you got it sorted @LordRoarth.
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?
Did you ever figure this out???
