Re: Lighting and colors change, for the worse, when in fullscreen mode.
Yes, Windowed fullscreen's edges and certain textures take a full nose dive. Look at the edges of the columns, t-shirt, etc. in the images I'll attach.
And you know what's funny, I took in-game screen shots to show the difference in lighting/color between the 2 modes, but when I brought them up in my image editor you literally can't tell. But when I'm in game there's a stark difference.
I've gone into my Nvidia Control Panel and enabled and disabled "Antialiasing - Gamma Correction" which did nothing.
@bckhsims I see it now, and those lines are pretty bad. Other people with the same issue have fixed it by using these Control Panel settings, together:
Antialiasing - FXAA: On Antialiasing - Gamma correction: On Antialiasing - Mode: Override any application setting Antialiasing - Setting: 2x
However, it's a good idea to do a clean uninstall and reinstall of the Nvidia graphics driver first. Your dxdiag lists several errors with one of the drivers (those are the LiveKernelEvent 141 errors), and you already have the newest one from Nvidia. Download Display Driver Uninstaller from here:
Download the newest Nvidia driver offered from Dell—with laptops, it's a good idea to use the driver(s) provided by the vendor rather than going directly to the card manufacturer. This driver is new enough that it should be perfectly fine, and you can always install a newer one later, if necessary.
Next, take your computer completely offline—disable wifi and/or pull the ethernet cord—and double-click the DDU.exe. Take note of where the file will land, and click Extract. If it's easier, you can copy the path and then paste it into the address bar in a File Explorer window. Open the folder and then launch Display Driver Uninstaller.exe, and you'll get a message that you're not in Safe Mode. Click OK, then go to Options and enable Safe Mode dialog. Here's a screenshot of what your options should look like; make sure the box in red is checked:
Close options, and the DDU, and then open the DDU.exe again. For launch options, choose "Safe Mode (Recommended)," and then click Reboot to Safe Mode (you'll need your password, so find it before rebooting). Once you login, you'll see this:
In the blue box, choose GPU, then Nvidia if it's not already showing. Then click Clean and Restart (red box).
Once your computer has rebooted, now back in normal mode, run the driver install .exe as an admin: right-click on the download and select "Run as administrator."
Reboot again, go back online, and change the Control Panel settings to whatever you want; they may have been reset to defaults with the clean uninstall. Then see whether the game works normally. If not, let me know.
You may not be able to help with this, and that's fine, but it's worth a shot, is there any way I can change the overall contrast of my display? There's not option for it in the Intel Graphics Command Center. Only color adjustments. And when I use the Windows "calibrate display color" app it gives me the chance to "adjust" contrast but literally doesn't tell me how, like what buttons to press or anything. Mainly, it's just that my black's are waaaaaay too dark.
@bckhsims I don't know whether your screen is LCD (I'm having trouble finding documentation), but Dell says that it's not possible to change the contrast, at least with Dell tools, on LCD screens. Still, you can try these approaches:
