Whenever my gaming friends tell me that HDR looks bad on Windows, I usually ask a simple follow-up question: "Did you actually calibrate it?" Most of the time, the answer is no. And honestly, I get it ...

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Microsoft is moving another part of the old Control Panel into the Settings app in Windows 11. The latter now has a properly modernized section for managing color profiles on preview builds. Microsoft ...

Use preset picture modes as a starting point, but avoid "Vivid" options, or ones that lock you into a specific color gamut. Brightness and contrast should be fine-tuned to keep in-game shadows black, ...

Many gamers reported that their screen color saturation changes when playing a game. This makes them uneasy as the change in color is not aesthetic at all. One of the reasons for this peculiarity is ...