I’ve noticed that when my laptop gets a tiny bit of direct sunlight (specifically in my case in a moving car for the past few hours) , the screen adjusts/changes it’s brightness. This is great and all, except it makes the screen quite a bit blown out. The light/white objects on screen can be a bit hard to make out.
I disabled automatic brightness changing in windows 10, but that doesn’t seem to change the screen’s behavior? I’ve identified the brightness sensor as the small light grey hole next to the camera (as when I cover it the screen goes back to normal)
Annoyingly, Intel has a setting called “Local Adaptive Contrast Enhancement” that they enable by default in their driver. You can open the Intel Graphics Command Center, click in the display tab, and then turn it off:
Really just wanted to come in here and say thanks @nrp this was tripping me up and I couldn’t figure it out. Some of Intel’s display decisions just confuse me, such as the contrast adjustment to save battery life, which makes bright sections slowly dim and stuff.
I also noticed when looking for a similar issue that the display changes the brightness that there is another option in the intel graphic control center for toggling adaptive brightness.
I don’t want to turn off Adaptive Brightness, I want to turn off Adaptive Contrast. One is adjusting the brightness of my screen, which is fine. The other is adjusting the colours of my screen which I don’t want.
There was no suggestion that anything mentioned would change the colours of your screen so I’m not sure what you are thinking.
However if you have either of the first Adaptive Brightness or the Lighting Awareness Contrast Enhancement enabled then clearly the screen will change with the environment not by your manual adjustment only.
Regarding the following which I had not mentioned it is set as default to adjust all colours equally.
My original screenshot shows that Lighting Aware Contrast Enhancement isn’t in my list of options. That is the specific setting that I am wanting to disable, but it is not under Display → General as @nrp initially showed on the first reply to this thread. That was the whole point of my original comment on this thread.
I’m wanting to stop the contrast from changing when the light sensor detects a high amount of light.
