Video artifacts with f.lux v 4.47 in sunset/night mode in Windows 10
-
Re: Strange colors/blue-fringed mouse pointer on full-screen YouTube when f.lux is active
I am referring to the previous article as it is quite old and was advised to start a new thread by your system.
The video artifacts appear in videos, games, screenshots etc when in sunset/night mode, on Windows 10 creators update and beyond, as a Windows insider, I am now running the Fall Creators Update (version 1709, build 16299.15) and the artifacts still exist, interestingly enough they also appear using Windows 10 built-in Night Mode, but to a lesser extent, it is difficult to describe how they look visually in text but as mentioned in the referred to article above the effects are bright colour edge halo's to various background objects usually a bright magenta in colour but in a video say where there are smooth transitions from light to dark these will be edged with halo's.
In fact, the easiest way to describe it is like running 24/32-bit colour in 16-bit mode if you remember years ago when there were only 16-bit colours available on most computers with the odd top end machine having a video card that supported 24/32-bit colour or TrueColor as it was referred to back in the day.
I hope this will help to give some insight into the problem for your developers, for your reference, here is a brief spec list of my system :-
Summary
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz 36 °C
Kentsfield 65nm Technology
RAM
4.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 533MHz (7-7-7-20)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. G41MT-D3 (Socket 775) 28 °C
Graphics
W1943 (1360x768@60Hz)
Viseo 190W (1366x768@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 (Gigabyte) 34 °C
Storage
931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-00WN4A0 ATA Device (SATA) 38 °C
111GB SanDisk SDSSDA120G ATA Device (SSD) 34 °C
489GB Crucial_CT525MX300SSD1 ATA Device (SSD) 31 °C
931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-08WN4A0 ATA Device (SATA) 36 °C
Optical Drives
SONY DVD RW DRU-800A ATA Device
SONY CD-RW CRX230ED ATA Device
Audio
SB AudigyI hope you can get to the root of this problem