far327 wrote:
EDIT - I'm now realizing that all of my screenshots are always darker than in game. Can anyone suggest a way to preserve lighting when taking a screenshot? Right now I'm just using FRAPS with .bmp format
I've had the same brightness issue for a long time now. my screenshots were looking darker than in game. It turns out that the screenshots are showing the right thing and the game is too bright. This happend to me in borderlands 2 also. I found two solutions.
First one was to change the resolution OR play in window mode, 1080p 16:9 fullscreen just made the game brighter for me, other resolutions didn't. It's easy to test. If your title menu screen has a black background (real black) the it works, if it has a brighter black then it is wrong.
Second solution just solved the problem intirely, making it work with all resolutions as it should. The problem is scaling. Go to Nvidia control panel/display/adjust desktop size and position. In here there's different scaling options. My problem was "perform scaling on". It was set to "screen" I changed it to GPU and problem was solved.. My work computer always had it on GPU, that's why the brightness was right at work, and wrong at home.
I hope this solves your problem, otherwise I don't know