I was finding the dark areas weren't quite black and was seeing like a fine mist of light pixels on the screen. By switching to extended you can change gamma, contrast, colour to your liking in the NVidia control panel. I dropped the gamma to .95 and now the white haze is gone and space looks totally black. I looks so much better.
The caveat is it will increase purple smear, but that doesn't bother me much; I find it worth it for the true blacks (I know opinions on that are split).
I actually tried this because I wanted to use Reshade/SweetFX (which does not work in direct mode), but unfortunately the effects are only showing up on the desktop mirror. If someone knows how to fix that let me know!
Cheers.
n.b. switching to extended mode can be glitchy. You need to turn off Aero first and even then sometimes have to restart steamvr a couple times for extended mode to take (sometimes I get an error and a red screen during the process).
The caveat is it will increase purple smear, but that doesn't bother me much; I find it worth it for the true blacks (I know opinions on that are split).
I actually tried this because I wanted to use Reshade/SweetFX (which does not work in direct mode), but unfortunately the effects are only showing up on the desktop mirror. If someone knows how to fix that let me know!
Cheers.
n.b. switching to extended mode can be glitchy. You need to turn off Aero first and even then sometimes have to restart steamvr a couple times for extended mode to take (sometimes I get an error and a red screen during the process).
Last edited:
