Automatic colorblind mode?

Question

After updated my previously very outdated Windows 10 laptop, I thought that I would be in the clear of any bugs I've experienced before. While this is true, I only found a different set of issues. Every time I open a video game it enables what seems to be a colorblind filter, one that filters out warm colors. I've looked in my colorblind filter settings to see if it was somehow enabled and it wasn't at all. I went to see if it had something to do with the games I've been playing and I found nothing. Somebody, please help me out.

Answer 1

This started happening to my laptop recently - any fullscreen exclusive game seems to run in some sort of colorblind mode, which goes heavy on the blues and very light on warm colors. Windowed and windowed borderless games are unaffected. System is a Dell Inspiron 7375, with a Ryzen 2500U w/Vega 8 graphics.

Not part of overlay programs like RivaTuner, not a part of Steam or similar (occurred in Overwatch), and does not show up in screenshots. It may be at the driver level, but that's not something I can modify as mobile Vega has no access to Radeon Settings for whatever reason.

Answer 2

Colour filters ? Here we are on 1803 and there's still something in the 1709 update I'd overlooked.

All games, or just a few doing this ? 

• If you have Win10's Night Light enabled all the time the game may be shutting it off to allow the game

to display the colour properly ?

If I have Night Light enabled it does not shut off when I launch a game (which I would prefer), but I've seen posts from

people who want it kept on while gaming, but can't stop it shutting off when they launch a game.

• If you use a software that locks in your monitors .icc colour profile this can cause some games to run too dark.

I have a few older games that must have a brightness override that causes the game to run too dark if I don't disable 

Color Profile Keeper, which is what I use to lock in, or change my monitors .icc profiles.

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