Playing with "fullscreen" OFF results in washed-out colours [linux?]

@cheebsco or @Jugginator
Can you guys check this one out?

Further experiments: nothing definitive but it may be the resolution plus full screen. My max. screen resolution is 3840 x 2160...

 

Any resolution, "full screen" = OFF is washed-out/dull.

 

Playing with "full screen" ON and setting the resolution to anything less than the maximum looks OK.

 

Using the max resolution of 3840 x 2160 is dull for both "full screen" and windowed.

 

I didn't see that on Ubuntu 16, and I recently changed it so I can take a look. But which Linux are you using? Would be good to know, since there are a bajillion different versions  @ThePewter

@Jugginator Here's my system's info...

 

 

Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 5.19.0-45-generic
X Window Manager: Xfwm4

 

Driver: NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
Driver Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 530.41.03
OpenGL Version: 4.6

 

Oh, forgot to add earlier: the problem occurs with GLCore.  Vulcan looks OK but it's a bit unstable

 

I just did a quick test and the log file is here: https://pastebin.com/5bKPmC0h

- started with windowed display (dull), switched to full screen with no change in resolution (good) and finally back to windowed (dull)...

 

 

Hmm. This may be more localized unless it's something in 22.04 Ubuntu, I am on 20.04. 

 

Maybe I am missing something, but I'm not seeing it on this one:

 

Before going into a lower resolution + windowed mode:

 

Switching resolution and then windowed mode:

Then to windowed full screen:

 

I'm not seeing anything different... Hmm, I wonder what's different.

 

Going to ping @SylenThunder, do you know of any common Linux issues that would cause the wash-out when going between resolutions?

 

For what it's worth, I am using the Nvidia driver metapackage from driver-530 (proprietary, tested)

All I can think of offhand is to make sure you are running the native Linux client, and not using Proton, or whatever Steam calls their emulation software.

 

I cannot say I have ever run into this before.  I switched from Ubuntu to Debian a bit back, but I'll see if I can load a system up for testing.

That's fair, I did have issues with Proton now that you mentioned it, the game runs fine without it anyway.

I also seem to recall Nvidia drivers sometimes having an issue with selecting the wrong color maps and it would like list blacks as 16 instead of 0, which would cause a similar issue. Usually when that happens you get the opposite though, fine in windowed mode, and washed out in fullscreen. Was more common on older HDMI ports with some displays. Had to go into the GPU options and set the dynamic range to "full". 

A couple of things based on the above comments:

 

• I'm using the native client
• The NVIDIA "colour range" is set to Full
• I'm also using the Nvidia driver metapackage from driver-530 (proprietary, tested)
• HDMI connection

 

Dynamic resolution mode

 

I spent a bit of time adjusting all of the video settings and found that if I set the "dynamic resolution" to OFF then the colours return to normal.

 

If the setting is "auto" or "scale" the colours are washed out.  The default setting I had was "auto."

 

 

17 minutes ago, ThePewter said:

Dynamic resolution mode

 

I spent a bit of time adjusting all of the video settings and found that if I set the "dynamic resolution" to OFF then the colours return to normal.

 

If the setting is "auto" or "scale" the colours are washed out.  The default setting I had was "auto."

 

 

 

Ah! Interesting. Hang on let me take a look

Ah hah -- that's it. Thanks for bringing up dynamic resolution @ThePewter, that was the cause.

@Jugginator No worries, glad I did something useful today

 

5 minutes ago, ThePewter said:

@Jugginator No worries, glad I did something useful today