Font/DPI Appearance Changes in Programs after Exiting AB2

[jhdeerslayer]

Played my first scenario and when it finished, and I exited the game, my Chrome, Outlook, etc. has changed the font/DPI appearance -- for lack of a better description. Text is light and hard to read in programs outside of AB2. Kind of a washed out appearance. After a reboot, all is fine.

I also see this if I Win Key + D to send the game to the Taskbar.

I'm running on Win10 with Intel 13700k CPU and Nvidia 2060 Super GPU (with latest driver). Playing in Full Screen mode - 2560 x 1440.

Never seen this before in the many games I play and happy to provide pics, information, etc. to troubleshoot this issue.


Update - Turning my Alienware OLED AW2725DF (set at 400 HDR) on and off returns the video to normal. Could be how AB2 program interacts with HDR or something. Everything great in game and only exiting from AB2 does this happen

[Remontti]

Same here.

I need turn Windows HDR setting off and on after exiting AB2

[jhdeerslayer]

Same here.

I need turn Windows HDR setting off and on after exiting AB2

Good glad I'm not alone... Minor but odd nuisance

[Veitikka]

Is it only in the fullscreen mode? Screenshots could be useful.

[Wahala]

I used to have this issue with AB1 and also the AB2 beta early on, then I worked out that toggling the HDR off then on (in windows settings) after exiting AB2 beta then the display issue was fixed.
Strangely since then it has not happened again either in the beta or the launch version.

[Remontti]

Is it only in the fullscreen mode? Screenshots could be useful.

Yes. It happens only in fullscreen mode. You can't capture the effect in screenshot. You would need to take photo of monitor with camera in order to show it.
To put it simply the screen brightness in desktop is just lot less after exiting game than it was before starting the game. But like said before flipping the HDR setting off and on in windows resets things back normal.

I'm using LG 32GP850 monitor and it is a HDR monitor. Using Nvidia 2080GTX and Windows 11 pro

[Barleyman]

Me too.

Win-ALT-B is the HDR hotkey so at least it's easy to toggle it off and on that way.

[Pawsy]

Same problem - turns my screen colours to a darker shade of black every time I exit AB2. Surprised this got through testing?

[Veitikka]

AB doesn't support HDR, so it shouldn't do any changes to colors. I haven't found anything about Windows colors changing when running a non-HDR game. Perhaps it's related to how well the other software support OpenGL? Someone said that he had the issue with AB1, so it's probably not caused by more advanced OpenGL features in AB2.

In addition to toggling HDR off, I can only recommend updating relevant software/drivers or trying Windows HDR calibration.

[Barleyman]

It's fairly likely that the graphics library used does something funny with HDR and/or SDR colours.

One possible hand-off workaround for this is to use this utility:
https://github.com/cocafe/HDRSwitch

You can make a small batch file to start AB2 and on exit toggle HDR off and back on.