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Guides to screen color in games and on the desktop: how to raise saturation, brighten dark games without washing them out, set up NVIDIA, AMD and Intel drivers, and get more FPS out of Windows.
DisplayTune →
What is DisplayTune?
DisplayTune is a Windows app that tunes your screen colors: saturation up to 350%, brightness, gamma and temperature, per-game profiles for 26 games and hotkeys.
DisplayTune · 3 minHow to install DisplayTune
Step-by-step DisplayTune installation: where to download, how to get past the Windows SmartScreen warning, how to get a free 1-day key and activate a paid one.
DisplayTune · 3 minDisplayTune and anti-cheat
How DisplayTune changes colors without touching games: GPU gamma ramp, NVIDIA and AMD driver, separate overlay windows. Honest advice for Valorant, CS2 and Rust.
DisplayTune · 3 minPer-game color profiles in DisplayTune
How to switch screen color automatically for each game: 26 games out of the box, 63 presets in 7 groups, your own profiles, a schedule and sharing profiles by code.
DisplayTune · 3 minHotkeys for screen color
How to toggle saturation, switch profiles and compare with the original using hotkeys right in game. Which key combinations to pick so they do not clash with the game.
Rust →
Digital vibrance in Rust: how much and how
Why everything in Rust looks grey-green and how to raise saturation: NVIDIA and AMD settings, values per biome and a Rust-only profile that switches on by itself.
Rust · 3 minBest color settings for Rust
Ready-made saturation, brightness and gamma values for Rust: summer, winter, desert, forest, night, caves, raids. A table of 15 DisplayTune presets and how to tune your own.
Rust · 3 minRust too dark at night: how to fix it
Can't see anything at night in Rust? Gamma vs brightness, which values to use, how not to blow out the sky, and how to switch a night profile with one key.
Rust · 3 minBlack holo sight for Rust
The green holosight reticle in Rust disappears against grass and trees. How the DisplayTune black holo works, how to set it up and which display modes it supports.
Rust · 3 minCustom crosshair overlay for Rust
How to put a custom crosshair on top of Rust: 6 shapes, color, size, thickness, gap and outline. Why you need it for hip-fire and which settings to pick.
Rust · 3 minRust FPS boost with DisplayTune Quick optimization
What the DisplayTune Quick optimization tab does: 26 graphics settings in client.cfg with a backup, map and shader cache cleanup, power plan, RAM cleanup and full revert.
Rust · 3 minRust console commands for FPS and memory
Rust console commands that still work for FPS and micro-stutter: gc.buffer, gc.collect, pool.clear_memory, fps.limit, a memory-clear bind and Steam launch options.
Rust · 3 minClearing the Rust map cache
Where Rust stores downloaded maps, why the maps folder grows to gigabytes, whether it is safe to delete and how to clear it by hand or with one click in DisplayTune.
Rust · 3 minHow to see players better in Rust
Color and graphics settings that help you spot players in Rust: saturation, shadow gamma, grass, shadows and fog. What actually works and what is a myth.
Rust · 3 minRust in winter: how to fix blinding snow
The Rust snow biome blinds you and hides players in white. Which brightness, gamma and saturation values to use on snow and how to switch between biomes quickly.
Rust · 3 minRust caves, tunnels and monuments too dark
How to see in Rust caves, tunnels and dark monuments: gamma, brightness and a separate underground profile that switches on with one key.
Shooters & survival →
Digital vibrance in CS2
Why players raise vibrance in Counter-Strike 2, which values they use, how to set NVIDIA and AMD saturation, and how to keep a separate CS2 profile in DisplayTune.
Shooters & survival · 3 minHow to set up your monitor for CS2
Monitor settings for Counter-Strike 2: refresh rate in Windows and in game, overdrive, BenQ Zowie Black eQualizer and Color Vibrance, RGB range and color.
Shooters & survival · 3 minDigital vibrance in Valorant
Valorant has no brightness or saturation slider. How to raise vibrance through the driver or DisplayTune, which enemy highlight color to pick and what to enable in graphics.
Shooters & survival · 3 minHow to see enemies better in Valorant
Valorant graphics settings for visibility: Improve Clarity, bloom, distortion, vignette, enemy highlight color and vibrance. What to turn on, what to turn off and why.
Shooters & survival · 3 minVibrance and brightness in Apex Legends
How to set up color in Apex Legends for visibility: in-game brightness, color blind mode, vibrance values and a ready-made Apex profile in DisplayTune.
Shooters & survival · 3 minVibrance in Fortnite
How to make Fortnite brighter and more colorful: vibrance values for DirectX and Performance mode, in-game brightness, color blind mode and a Fortnite profile in DisplayTune.
Shooters & survival · 3 minVibrance and brightness in PUBG
Color settings for PUBG: how to separate players from grass and bushes at long range, which saturation and gamma values to use, and in-game brightness and sharpen.
Shooters & survival · 3 minBrightness and gamma in Escape from Tarkov
How to set up Escape from Tarkov visuals: PostFX brightness, saturation and clarity, gamma through the GPU, night raids and the ready-made "Tarkov — Shadows" profile.
Shooters & survival · 3 minDayZ at night: gamma and brightness
DayZ nights are almost black. How to set gamma and brightness without washing out the picture, which profile to use, and why a separate night profile beats manual sliders.
Shooters & survival · 3 minBrightness and contrast in CS2
How to set brightness in Counter-Strike 2, what Boost Player Contrast does, whether you need gamma, and how to make dark corners visible without washing out the picture.
Shooters & survival · 3 minColor and brightness in Call of Duty and Warzone
How to set up Call of Duty and Warzone visuals for visibility: brightness calibration, in-game color filters, HDR, and saturation and gamma through the driver or DisplayTune.
Shooters & survival · 3 minVibrance and color in Overwatch 2
How to set up Overwatch 2 visuals: in-game brightness, contrast and gamma correction, color blind filters, enemy UI color and digital vibrance.
Shooters & survival · 3 minVibrance in Dota 2
How to set up color in Dota 2: moderate vibrance for readable heroes and spells, gamma, monitor settings and a ready-made Dota 2 profile in DisplayTune.
Shooters & survival · 3 minColor and brightness in Rainbow Six Siege
How to see enemies better in Rainbow Six Siege: in-game brightness, gamma for dark rooms, saturation and a ready-made Siege profile in DisplayTune.
Shooters & survival · 3 minBrightness and gamma in Hunt: Showdown
Hunt: Showdown is one of the darkest shooters. Which brightness and gamma values to use for night maps and interiors, and how not to blow out the sky and fire.
Shooters & survival · 3 minColor and brightness in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2
How to set up S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 visuals: the washed-out Zone, dark underground areas, HDR, brightness and gamma, and a ready-made profile in DisplayTune.
Shooters & survival · 3 minVibrance and color in GTA 5
How to make GTA 5 brighter and more colorful without mods: in-game gamma, saturation through the driver or DisplayTune, and the Vivid and HDR look presets.
Shooters & survival · 3 minColor and vibrance in League of Legends
How to set up color in League of Legends: moderate vibrance for readable skillshots, color blind mode, an evening profile and an auto profile in DisplayTune.
Shooters & survival · 3 minHow to make a dark game brighter without washing it out
A universal way to make any dark game brighter: why gamma beats brightness, the order to tune things in, which values to use and how to avoid a grey picture.
Monitor & GPU color →
NVIDIA digital vibrance
Where digital vibrance is in the NVIDIA Control Panel, which value to use for games, why the setting keeps resetting and how to use different vibrance per game.
Monitor & GPU color · 3 minSaturation on AMD Radeon (the AMD "digital vibrance")
How to raise saturation on AMD Radeon: Custom Color in Adrenalin, which values to use, how to enable full RGB and why the setting disappears.
Monitor & GPU color · 3 minSaturation on Intel graphics
Where to raise saturation on Intel integrated graphics and Intel Arc: Graphics Command Center, color settings, and what to know about laptops with two GPUs.
Monitor & GPU color · 3 minWhat is digital vibrance?
What digital vibrance is, how it differs from ordinary saturation, why gamers raise it and which value to choose without neon colors.
Monitor & GPU color · 3 minHow to increase screen saturation in Windows 10 and 11
Four ways to raise color saturation in Windows: NVIDIA Control Panel, AMD Adrenalin, Intel Graphics Command Center and DisplayTune. Why Windows itself has no such slider.
Monitor & GPU color · 3 minA VibranceGUI alternative
VibranceGUI only changes driver saturation for chosen games. What to use instead if you need gamma, brightness, hotkeys, Intel GPU support or saturation above 200%.
Monitor & GPU color · 3 minWashed-out colors on a monitor: causes and fixes
Why a monitor shows dull, faded colors: limited RGB, monitor mode, Windows HDR, Night light, sRGB mode, panel type. Step-by-step check and fixes.
Monitor & GPU color · 3 minFull vs limited RGB range
What limited RGB range (16–235) is, why it makes blacks grey and colors dull, and how to enable full range on NVIDIA, AMD and Intel.
Monitor & GPU color · 3 minThe best software to adjust monitor color
An honest comparison of screen color apps: DisplayTune, NVIDIA, AMD and Intel panels, VibranceGUI, f.lux, Windows Night light, DisplayCAL and NVIDIA filters. What each one is for.
Monitor & GPU color · 3 minMonitor gamma: what it is and how to set it
What monitor gamma is, why the standard is 2.2 and why "1.0" in the driver panel means no change. How to set gamma for work and for dark games without washing out.
Monitor & GPU color · 3 minMonitor color temperature
What screen color temperature is, why the standard is 6500K, how Warm and Cool modes differ, and which temperature to use during the day, in the evening and in games.
Monitor & GPU color · 3 minCalibrating a monitor without a calibrator
How to calibrate a monitor without a colorimeter: reset settings, the built-in Windows wizard (dccw), black level, white level and gamma test patterns, and what to do next.
Monitor & GPU color · 3 minMonitor brightness and contrast: how to set them
Which brightness and contrast to use on a monitor during the day and in the evening, why 100% brightness in the dark hurts the picture and your eyes, and a 5-minute check.
Monitor & GPU color · 3 minHDR in games on Windows: why everything looks washed out
Why the picture turns dull and washed out after enabling HDR in Windows, how HDR400 differs from real HDR, how to set SDR content brightness and Auto HDR, and when SDR is better.
Windows for gaming →
Clearing RAM for gaming
What the Windows standby list is, why it can cause stutter in games like Rust, how ISLC and RAMMap clear it, and when clearing memory actually helps.
Windows for gaming · 3 minHow to clear the shader cache
Where the NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, DirectX and Steam shader caches live, when clearing helps (stutter after a driver update), when it does not, and how to do it by hand or in one click.
Windows for gaming · 3 minThe Ultimate Performance power plan
How to enable the hidden Ultimate Performance power plan in Windows, what it changes for games, why duplicate copies appear and how to delete them, and when you do not need it.
Eye comfort →
Eye strain from a monitor: what to adjust
Why your eyes get tired at the computer and which settings help: brightness for your room, warmer temperature in the evening, backlight flicker, the 20-20-20 rule and warm screen profiles.
Eye comfort · 3 minNight light and blue light
What Windows Night light does, whether blue light is really harmful, which temperature to use in the evening and how to combine a warm evening screen with normal colors in games.