Question How do I stop my screen from changing colors whenever I press a key while on desktop?

[HolyAlan]

I have a windows 10 system, for some odd reason, whenever I click on a key for instance, "C" my screen would automatically switched to what seems to be high contrast mode? I'm not sure why this is happening but it is annoying. I am not pressing any other key such as the windows button or "alt" button.

 

[LinuxDevice]

The color mode of your desktop and the game are different. Sometimes a desktop and game cannot run the same color depth if there is a lack of video RAM. Check carefully what your desktop settings are, and then check in the game...see if they are different. If they are, then you can try to set them the same, but you might end up with a "limited resources" pop-up.

 

[HolyAlan]

The color mode of your desktop and the game are different. Sometimes a desktop and game cannot run the same color depth if there is a lack of video RAM. Check carefully what your desktop settings are, and then check in the game...see if they are different. If they are, then you can try to set them the same, but you might end up with a "limited resources" pop-up.

The thing is, it doesn’t happen when I’m playing a game of any sort. It’s only when I’m on the plain desktop . I’m not sure if it will help but my specs are, GTX 1660 ti, Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB RAM, 600 Watt PS and ASUS Prime B450 - Plus.

 

[LinuxDevice]

The thing is, it doesn’t happen when I’m playing a game of any sort. It’s only when I’m on the plain desktop . I’m not sure if it will help but my specs are, GTX 1660 ti, Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB RAM, 600 Watt PS and ASUS Prime B450 - Plus.

When you see the desktop colors change upon switching to some other desktop or some other application, regardless of there being a game or not (it is just more common with games), then the color depth of one is set different than to the other. The video card is in a particular mode and does not have sufficient video RAM to run both (or some other video related resource, or perhaps just the software to switch modes when switching applications...a desktop is still an application even if it launches other applications). Unless you have issues like this for every application and situation (and thus the effects never switch based on what you are viewing) I really believe this is not a hardware issue, but just a resource limit issue.

Some software is just not coded to be able to work under the same color modes and changes as other software. I can't tell you that more video RAM would solve the issue, but it could (a video card with 6GB of RAM shouldn't have issues with insufficient RAM in many circumstances, but could, especially if the applications themselves are not coded to handle the different color depths). You might experiment with the desktop settings and compare to whatever is running or active when failing versus working.

 

[HolyAlan]

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When you see the desktop colors change upon switching to some other desktop or some other application, regardless of there being a game or not (it is just more common with games), then the color depth of one is set different than to the other. The video card is in a particular mode and does not have sufficient video RAM to run both (or some other video related resource, or perhaps just the software to switch modes when switching applications...a desktop is still an application even if it launches other applications). Unless you have issues like this for every application and situation (and thus the effects never switch based on what you are viewing) I really believe this is not a hardware issue, but just a resource limit issue.

Some software is just not coded to be able to work under the same color modes and changes as other software. I can't tell you that more video RAM would solve the issue, but it could (a video card with 6GB of RAM shouldn't have issues with insufficient RAM in many circumstances, but could, especially if the applications themselves are not coded to handle the different color depths). You might experiment with the desktop settings and compare to whatever is running or active when failing versus working.

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This has never happened before until several days ago and I had my computer for several months. I looked around my nivida settings and desktop setting however it is all the same, the setting's are all on default however I the screen changing still happens.

 

[LinuxDevice]

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This has never happened before until several days ago and I had my computer for several months. I looked around my nivida settings and desktop setting however it is all the same, the setting's are all on default however I the screen changing still happens.

This could be due to a Windows update, not sure. What you are seeing is the video card in a particular color mode, and the desktop and some other application are using different color modes. If you are using a virtual desktop application, or any application at all (desktops are applications), and the video mode itself does not switch, then you will see the effects of the difference between actual video/color mode and what the application intended.

The question then becomes one of why the two are running at different settings. What exact applications are running? Is this the default desktop, or have you added software? What applications does this occur with? Does this not occur with other applications? So on. Whatever the applications are, it seems you need to be able to find the color depth/format for each application. The system defaults would normally be the same as the desktop itself unless another application has changed the mode (e.g., a game).

 

[HolyAlan]

This could be due to a Windows update, not sure. What you are seeing is the video card in a particular color mode, and the desktop and some other application are using different color modes. If you are using a virtual desktop application, or any application at all (desktops are applications), and the video mode itself does not switch, then you will see the effects of the difference between actual video/color mode and what the application intended.

The question then becomes one of why the two are running at different settings. What exact applications are running? Is this the default desktop, or have you added software? What applications does this occur with? Does this not occur with other applications? So on. Whatever the applications are, it seems you need to be able to find the color depth/format for each application. The system defaults would normally be the same as the desktop itself unless another application has changed the mode (e.g., a game).

I don't it is just my computer that is messed up. My laptop that just updated to a newer windows 10, started to have the same problem. As well I have literally nothing downloaded on my laptop because I reset it to make it faster. It makes be believe that it is the new windows update, but I am still not sure.