I got a 4K monitor last year, and it's been great generally, except for games like my heavily modded Skyrim that won't run in 4K at acceptable framerates. For those, when the monitor shifts to 1080p resolution in full-screen mode, the contrast becomes dramatically washed out and weak. It's very noticeable and disappointing.
Seemed like a monitor hardware issue, so I just accepted it, but recently I got a mod that forces the game to run in a borderless window instead of 'full screen.' Since running it at 4K is out, and the mod just uses the desktop resolution, I tried changing the desktop to 1920x1080 before running the game, and guess what? No contrast problems at all, despite still being in 1080p.
Is there something different about running a game in "fullscreen" mode, as opposed to a borderless window, that would affect how the signal is sent to the monitor, or the way the monitor handles the resolution change? I should add that running skyrim fullscreen at 4K looks fine -- no contrast problems -- it's just full screen at lower resolutions.
I don't want to have to manually change the desktop resolution every time I play Skyrim, so if anyone knows what might be going on, and if there's a solution for avoiding the contrast problems in 'full screen' mode, I'd appreciate your thoughts.
Seemed like a monitor hardware issue, so I just accepted it, but recently I got a mod that forces the game to run in a borderless window instead of 'full screen.' Since running it at 4K is out, and the mod just uses the desktop resolution, I tried changing the desktop to 1920x1080 before running the game, and guess what? No contrast problems at all, despite still being in 1080p.
Is there something different about running a game in "fullscreen" mode, as opposed to a borderless window, that would affect how the signal is sent to the monitor, or the way the monitor handles the resolution change? I should add that running skyrim fullscreen at 4K looks fine -- no contrast problems -- it's just full screen at lower resolutions.
I don't want to have to manually change the desktop resolution every time I play Skyrim, so if anyone knows what might be going on, and if there's a solution for avoiding the contrast problems in 'full screen' mode, I'd appreciate your thoughts.
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