How do I keep my laptop contrast:brightness/saturation ratio the same Nitro 5

So what happens is that when my laptop is not charging and its display settings are default, it has this odd display where the saturation feels like its too high. I get my preferred saturation when I manually decrease the contrast from the AMD Catalyst Control Centre, but that decreases the brightness. When I charge it, the saturation/color accuracy improves without me having to change the display settings from default to something else, and the brightness does not change either. I prefer the display that I get when the laptop is charging. How do I make it so that I get that display all the time, regardless of whether my laptop is charging or not?

I use a 2020 model of Acer Nitro 5, with AMD 4000 series Ryzen 7 processor, Radeon iGPU and NVidia Geforce GTX dGPU. I face this issue when I operate with the iGPU, but not when I operate solely on the dGPU. I normally do not use the dGPU for anything other than games, as it increases the size of everything on the screen when I set it to do everything that the iGPU is supposed to, which just looks weird.

I have already tried uninstalling some drivers and reinstalling them, restarting the laptop several times and updating the AMD Radeon driver as well, but the situation still has not changed.

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nmtri9999

Hi there. I have the same problem.
After looking into a few settings, I found this work for me maybe you can try out:
Go to AMD Radeon Software (from right-clicking your desktop) > Settings > Display and turn off Vari-Bright.
I saw it work for me and the saturation and contrast is no longer weird on battery.
Hope this would help.

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Easwar

Hi Asir,

Some PCs can let Windows automatically adjust screen brightness based on the current lighting conditions. To find out if your PC supports this, go to Settings > System > Display. Under Brightness and color, look for the Change brightness automatically when lighting changes un-check the box, and then select it to use this feature.

Asir

Easwar said:

Hi Asir,

Some PCs can let Windows automatically adjust screen brightness based on the current lighting conditions. To find out if your PC supports this, go to Settings > System > Display. Under Brightness and color, look for the Change brightness automatically when lighting changes un-check the box, and then select it to use this feature.

No, my laptop does not support that. I believe what you suggested will not solve my problem though.

It is somewhat the way the colors seem on the screen that I am bothered about. It seems too saturated when not charging at default settings. This problem goes away when the laptop is charging, and I prefer the less saturated display when the laptop is charging. I already tried adjusting the colors, hue and saturation manually from control panel and AMD Catalyst Control Center, but to no avail.

One interesting thing I noticed is that when I decrease the contrast manually (when not charging) to the lowest setting possible, the problem goes away. I do not have to do this when the laptop is charging, and the display looks even better than that of a non-charging laptop with lowest contrast setting.

My aim is to have the display that I get when the laptop charging/using AC power at all times, even when my laptop is not plugged in.

Murky

Hi, I'm having this exact same problem. Just discovered that the saturation issue goes away when the laptop is charging. It's really annoying when I stop charging it and the screen goes to saturated again, would love a fix

nmtri9999

Hi there. I have the same problem.
After looking into a few settings, I found this work for me maybe you can try out:
Go to AMD Radeon Software (from right-clicking your desktop) > Settings > Display and turn off Vari-Bright.
I saw it work for me and the saturation and contrast is no longer weird on battery.
Hope this would help.