Weird screen setting in Vista?

[Mechagodzilla]

So I don;t know what this is or how to disable it, but i seems if my screen has something darker colored on it, the screen itself gets darker. This is annoying when I play Fallout 3. Does anyone know how to disable this?

[Brains]

just undo whatever you did to make the screen darker???

vista wouldn't just make your screen darker for no reason lol, it's not the evil.

check Control Panel -> Display...play around with the settings in there.
check your video card settings (nvidia control panel if you have an nvidia card)
check your monitors brightness settings

[Bonemasher]

What do you mean by darker? Fallout 3 is a dark game at times and you need to use the pipboy light to see. Kind of like most games with their flashlights.

[Mechagodzilla]

No, I mean even if i go to a web page where like half of the screen is like black, the entire screen darkens, and then when i return to like white, it brightens again.

[Bonemasher]

Sounds like theres a setting on somewhere either on your monitor or vid card to make black seem darker, some people complain that LCD's black is sort of dark grey.

[Mechagodzilla]

Well i have no idea how to change it.

[Cosmic_Shame]

or ur video card is dieing, when one of my 9600GT was on its last breath of air it turned dark like that and would flicker back to bright and eventually i got lines, and then it died

[Clone]

or ur video card is dieing, when one of my 9600GT was on its last breath of air it turned dark like that and would flicker back to bright and eventually i got lines, and then it died

True story. :(

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[Mechagodzilla]

or ur video card is dieing, when one of my 9600GT was on its last breath of air it turned dark like that and would flicker back to bright and eventually i got lines, and then it died

I got the card about a year ago.

[Cosmic_Shame]

I got the card about a year ago.

doesnt matter when u bought it, mine died within 3 days off buying it. Video cards can last 1 day to 10 years u just dont know. If ur still having the problem mecha its ur graphics card and it is almost dead, because if u cannot fix it by adjusting ur settings on ur monitor and ur settings in windows ur card is dieing, and it wont be long before ur gonna get a black screen. My suggestion would be to call up the company u bought it from, i dunno EVGA BFG XFX, whatever ur card company is and see what ur warranty is. If u have an EVGA or XFX Nvidia 8000-9000 series i know u have a lifetime warranty if u registred it within 30 days of purchase so u should be able to get a free card if u have that, other than that most cards have a 2 year warranty but u still have to pay a small fee of restockage or something like that.

But i would definately call the company who made ur card and find out from them if its a GPU problem, because if u havent fixed it by now im almost 80% sure its ur graphics card

[Brains]

I can sell you 2 GTX260s mecha (if you're willing to wait until the GTX400 series releases) :D