How To Fix AMD Graphics Card Not Bright

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In this guide, we will be taking a look at how to fix your AMD graphics card not being very bright, we can do this by changing the brightness or disabling vari-bright on your AMD graphics card.

Having this option enabled saves power by adaptively adjusting your display brightness based on what you have currently displayed on your screen.

So if you are finding that some images, text, or other things within Windows do not look as great or clear as they should, then the chances are that you have this option enabled and it’s adjusting your display.

When it comes to using your computer you want everything to be clear and easy to read. So if you have already tried increasing the brightness of your display and changed the setting within Clear text with no success.

Then the next thing to try is disabling Vari-bright feature within the AMD Radeon software settings, we have listed the steps on how to do this below.

What is AMD Vari-bright

Vair-bright is an option within AMD Radeon Software that adaptively adjusts the brightness of your display based on what you are currently doing, resulting in saving power.

This helps keep the battery life of a laptop to last longer between charges, the only downside is at times AMD vari-bright can make it difficult to view what is on your screen, you could always try changing the Vari-bright level before disabling it.

Change AMD Vari-bright level

Below are the steps to change AMD Vari-Bright level on your Windows computer.

(Vari bright option is missing from the AMD control panel, if this is the case then you do not need to do anything as the setting is not enabled.)

Open the Windows start menu and search AMD Radeon Software and open it

Now click on the Settings cog in the top right corner

Go to the Display tab and find the Vari-bright option and ensure that is enabled

You can now move the slider either up or down to change the brigtness of your display for your AMD graphics card on your laptop, once finished close down the AMD Radeon Software

How to turn off AMD Vari-bright

Below are the steps for turning off AMD Vari-Bright on your Windows computer.

(Vari bright option is missing from the AMD control panel, if this is the case then you do not need to do anything as the setting is not enabled.)

Open the Windows start menu and search AMD Radeon Software and open it

Now click on the Settings cog in the top right corner

Go to the Display tab and find the Vari-bright option and toggle it to disabled

Conclusion

So as you can see it’s easy enough to turn off AMD Vari-bright and by doing so can really help with your laptop screen brightness or PC screen brightness, AMD software has come a long way with allowing us to customize the features of their GPUS. I can’t wait to see what other features will become available in the future.

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