The connected display is hooked up through the HDMI port on the laptop and the color looks much lighter, but when I close the lid to the laptop it gets darker and actually looks darker and significantly better. What causes this to happen?
Things I've tried...
Driver updates, manufacture software, power management settings, Color Management Settings, different monitor, different cable, different laptop of the same manufacture, and different laptop from different manufacture.
I've spent the last 2 weeks running through all the hoops with both Microsoft and Dell, along with looking into the 3 other posts about this on the internet. If anyone can solve this I'd be ecstatic.
Visual References - (Images are grayscale, not the issue just for the visual reference) (Ignore the wavy lines)
Original Image, grabbed off the internet and uploaded directly to here.
Screenshot of original Image in this post (If this image is different from the original on your screen, then the issue is definitely 100% Not hardware related)
Photo of the external monitor with Lid Closed - Image taken with camera. Darker darks. Looks normal.
Photo of the external monitor with Lid Open - Image taken with camera. Much lighter darks. Does not look normal.
Color Management Settings
Another example showing the epic launcher
Photo of the external monitor with Lid Open - Image taken with camera. Much lighter darks. Does not look normal.
Photo of the external monitor with Lid Closed - Image taken with camera. Darker darks. Looks normal.