[Help] How to Disable Lightboost permanently in games?
Whenever i run a game in 3d vision, automatically lightboost is turned on and it drastically degrades the color quality, blur is not my problem, i am using Benq XL2420z monitor with a gtx 970, please help me how can i disable it. Thanks!
Whenever i run a game in 3d vision, automatically lightboost is turned on and it drastically degrades the color quality, blur is not my problem, i am using Benq XL2420z monitor with a gtx 970, please help me how can i disable it. Thanks!

#1
Posted 06/11/2015 02:01 PM   
Blur is not a problem THANX to the Lightboost. Its name is misleading. It mostly takes care of the blur. But not just "improves it". It takes 100% of it. You have a gtx970. I enjoy 60fps gaming on gtx760 (not in the newest most demanding games, of course) and you should be able to set the games to maintain 60fps. MAINTAIN is the key word here. You need 60fps. Not 70fps, not 58fps, but v-sync locked 60fps for each eye. After you see the difference you'll cure from that "I want to disable Lightboost" ideas, I assure you :) And more on topic - you cannot disable Lightboost in 3D mode. You just can't, there's no such possibility. About the color quality - I don't think it's that bad. It is a problem when you use Lightboost mode for 2D games, but you have a Z series monitor so you don't need to use this hack. It's a TN panel. The colors are bound to be mediocre. There's no LCD panel that can both display blur-free image at 120Hz and have great colors and black levels. You might try to find someone with Asus ROG, who lives near you. There's a chance you'll consider that monitor better. Benqs aren't even using the 100% of what that TN panels allow for. But... I have the same monitor as you, and I'm happy with the colors. Tricks I use: - tilt the monitor a little. Lower edge near you, upper edge farther from you. - adjust the settings in Nvidia panel. I use 40% brightness, 50 contras nad 0,8-0,9 gamma. - adjust it even more on per-game basis. For example I lower the gamma much more in Grid:Autosport in day-time races - disable the postprocess wherever possible - play games from the past. Recent games are mostly washed out and looking ugly. But try some older ones and bingo! Great colors. For example: Trine1/2/3, Grid1/2/Autosport (postprocess disabled or lowest possible!), Pure (again: postprocess off), Sonic Racing Transformed, Just Cause 2, Ori And The Blind Forest, etc.
Blur is not a problem THANX to the Lightboost. Its name is misleading. It mostly takes care of the blur. But not just "improves it". It takes 100% of it.
You have a gtx970. I enjoy 60fps gaming on gtx760 (not in the newest most demanding games, of course) and you should be able to set the games to maintain 60fps. MAINTAIN is the key word here. You need 60fps. Not 70fps, not 58fps, but v-sync locked 60fps for each eye.
After you see the difference you'll cure from that "I want to disable Lightboost" ideas, I assure you :)

And more on topic - you cannot disable Lightboost in 3D mode. You just can't, there's no such possibility.
About the color quality - I don't think it's that bad. It is a problem when you use Lightboost mode for 2D games, but you have a Z series monitor so you don't need to use this hack.
It's a TN panel. The colors are bound to be mediocre. There's no LCD panel that can both display blur-free image at 120Hz and have great colors and black levels. You might try to find someone with Asus ROG, who lives near you. There's a chance you'll consider that monitor better. Benqs aren't even using the 100% of what that TN panels allow for.
But... I have the same monitor as you, and I'm happy with the colors.
Tricks I use:
- tilt the monitor a little. Lower edge near you, upper edge farther from you.
- adjust the settings in Nvidia panel. I use 40% brightness, 50 contras nad 0,8-0,9 gamma.
- adjust it even more on per-game basis. For example I lower the gamma much more in Grid:Autosport in day-time races
- disable the postprocess wherever possible
- play games from the past. Recent games are mostly washed out and looking ugly. But try some older ones and bingo! Great colors. For example: Trine1/2/3, Grid1/2/Autosport (postprocess disabled or lowest possible!), Pure (again: postprocess off), Sonic Racing Transformed, Just Cause 2, Ori And The Blind Forest, etc.

#2
Posted 06/11/2015 09:07 PM   
Well, my Asus had an option in the OSD menu to adjust light boost, including turning it off. And yeah, I preferred it off.
Well, my Asus had an option in the OSD menu to adjust light boost, including turning it off. And yeah, I preferred it off.

#3
Posted 06/11/2015 09:32 PM   
i almost cured the color quality by decreasing the gamma to 0 and digital vibrance to 100% in nvidia control panel, game looks identical to non lighboost color. Tomb raider in 3d vision rocks!
i almost cured the color quality by decreasing the gamma to 0 and digital vibrance to 100% in nvidia control panel, game looks identical to non lighboost color. Tomb raider in 3d vision rocks!

#4
Posted 06/12/2015 12:55 PM   
[quote=""]Well, my Asus had an option in the OSD menu to adjust light boost, including turning it off. And yeah, I preferred it off.[/quote] This really surprised me! (The fact it can be turned off on any 3DV2 monitor. The fact that you preferred it off looks so unbelievable, that I don't even try to understand why. Blur without the LB is taking away SO MUCH!) jonny99961 Yeah, I forgot about the color settings. I use 60% in some games, up to 75% in other. Depends on how much the game is covered in postprocess filters.
said:Well, my Asus had an option in the OSD menu to adjust light boost, including turning it off. And yeah, I preferred it off.


This really surprised me! (The fact it can be turned off on any 3DV2 monitor. The fact that you preferred it off looks so unbelievable, that I don't even try to understand why. Blur without the LB is taking away SO MUCH!)

jonny99961
Yeah, I forgot about the color settings. I use 60% in some games, up to 75% in other. Depends on how much the game is covered in postprocess filters.

#5
Posted 06/12/2015 09:24 PM   
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