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david.oh.k
Profile Joined March 2011
United States92 Posts
June 30 2011 11:17 GMT
#1
Just got a new computer recently, and now I can play on windowed full screen without any lag and smooth fps. But, my monitor is still pretty old and it's not very bright on SCII for some reason when it's fine for anything else. If I play in regular full screen mode then I can just easily turn up the brightness, but I can't do that for windowed mode. Is there any way to up the brightness if you have the game on windowed full screen?
schreddertt
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany102 Posts
June 30 2011 11:21 GMT
#2
On June 30 2011 20:17 david.oh.k wrote:
Just got a new computer recently, and now I can play on windowed full screen without any lag and smooth fps. But, my monitor is still pretty old and it's not very bright on SCII for some reason when it's fine for anything else. If I play in regular full screen mode then I can just easily turn up the brightness, but I can't do that for windowed mode. Is there any way to up the brightness if you have the game on windowed full screen?



You can only increase it via your monitor directly.
SomniGiggles
Profile Joined May 2011
United Kingdom214 Posts
June 30 2011 11:22 GMT
#3
In windowed mode it takes the brightness from your desktop. However it always seems to be so dark. The only way of changing it - as far as I am aware - is by making your desktop brighter or just running it again in Full-screen.
david.oh.k
Profile Joined March 2011
United States92 Posts
June 30 2011 12:21 GMT
#4
Awww, well my monitor is already max brightness. No luck for me I guess?
darkpit1
Profile Joined October 2010
United States21 Posts
June 30 2011 13:14 GMT
#5
What GPU do you use? if its AMD/ATI you can use the Catalyst Control Center and up the Brightness, and I'm sure Nvidia has something similar as well.
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SomniGiggles
Profile Joined May 2011
United Kingdom214 Posts
June 30 2011 13:22 GMT
#6
Yeah as for Nvidia you can use the 'Nvidia Control Panel' just edit the brightness/gamma there.
Packeteer
Profile Joined September 2010
United States105 Posts
June 30 2011 15:56 GMT
#7
I have the exact same problem. I run sc2 in windowed mode and use a CRT that is not too bright. I also use an nvidia card. Here is my fix.

I open the "nvidia control panel" and go under "Display" to "Adjust Desktop Color Settings", click the"use nvidia settings" radio button which enables the options below it. I turn up the "Gamma" a bit until it is bright enough. The desktop is slightly washed out looking but I turn it back down if I really care about it but generally I am playing sc2.

I am not sure if you have an ATI card how to change the gamme but that works for nvidia.
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david.oh.k
Profile Joined March 2011
United States92 Posts
June 30 2011 18:56 GMT
#8
On June 30 2011 22:14 darkpit1 wrote:
What GPU do you use? if its AMD/ATI you can use the Catalyst Control Center and up the Brightness, and I'm sure Nvidia has something similar as well.

I have an ATI Radeon HD 6570. Where is the catalyst control center on the computer? The computer runs on Windows 7 so would I find it in the control panel?
UltraPissed
Profile Joined August 2013
1 Post
August 21 2013 17:38 GMT
#9
I actually found a solution to this problem for those that have Windows 7 but are unable to fix it with the Nvidia Control Center or Catalyst Control for radeon..Like for those that use integrated graphics ><

Open up Starcraft, put it in whatever windowed mode you want, then Simply type brightness into your search on the start menu and choose "Calibrate Display Colors". You can also find it in the control panel. You've got to press next a few times, and on the 3rd or 4th screen it will let you raise or lower your screen Gamma, if you actually do the test you will probably realize that your screen has gamma way too low and it's not just starcraft, so just fix it and take a look at your SC. .Should b good.

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