garyritson wrote:Would you perhaps guide me as to why my laptop is set up like this?
PS What should my screen properties gamma be set to? If I change it from 1 to 2.2 then everything is very washed out and light.
I suspect your screen might have a linear response, hence it needs a gamma value of 1 where as the operating system has a non-linear response (like our human perception) hence it uses a curve represented by the value of 2.2
I believe you should leave the screen as is, probably the operating system will take care of the rest.
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