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I see rainbow effect on the borders of objects and text, adjusting ClearType or driver reinstall doesn't resolve the issue

This is a problem with chroma subsampling where colour data is essentially "compressed" and spread across multiple pixels to reduce bandwidth in a way that, from a distance and depending on ...
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I see rainbow effect on the borders of objects and text, adjusting ClearType or driver reinstall doesn't resolve the issue

The problem was with YCbCr420 color format. I switched to YCbCr444 or RGB and it went away. I see the best color representation for my display with RGB and full dynamic range (I also set 10 bpc color ...
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Using FFmpeg to encode a video to h264 using Intel QuickSync

Pay attention to the output from the console: [AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x556f744cf5c0] VAAPI driver: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Skylake - 2.1.0. [AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x556f744cf5c0] Driver not found ...
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Is it advisable to update to non-OEM Intel graphics driver on laptop?

Just a general 'rule of thumb' on this type of decision… If the laptop is sufficiently new that the manufacturer is still making regular driver updates - stick with them. After a year or two they ...
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DisplayPort downstream limited to 1920×1080

This is a limitation with USB-C and DisplayPort versions and, sometimes, dumb monitors. DisplayPort Alt Mode on USB-C is typically configured to provide two DisplayPort lanes. This allows a USB 3 ...
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What is the maximum display resolution on the Intel HD Graphics 4000 chipset on a Lenovo t430?

Is 3840x2160@25hz (with reduced blanking). xrandr --newmode "3840x2160x24.99" 218.500000 3840 3888 3920 4000 2160 2163 2167 2186 +HSync -VSync xrandr --addmode HDMI1 "3840x2160x24.99" Then ...
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External monitor is washed out with Intel HD Graphics

This is what worked in my case. My monitor was being incorrectly detected as a HDTV with limited range and adding a custom resolution with "CVT-RB" timing fixed it. You can add a custom resolution ...
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How to set +60Hz refresh rate with an Intel CPU?

The Intel i7-4770k only supports up to 60Hz refresh rate since the onboard graphics (Intel HD 4600) only supports that. This is shown in the product specification in the screenshot below: The product ...
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Brightness changes while "Adaptive Brightness" is disabled in Windows 8.1/10 with Intel HD Graphics

So i just fixed this problem temporarily. What i did is i went to Device Manager, then went to Display adapters. Now i have 2 graphics cards in my system, one is an integrated Intel HD4000 and the ...
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How to determine number of GPU cores being utilized for a process?

On GPUs, 100% utilization means that all cores are basically executing instructions. It is running at peak performance when all of those instructions are fused-multiply-add operations: a = a + b * c, ...
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Colorpicker only picks black

You're using GNOME 3 on Fedora with a non-NVidia graphics card, so you're most likely running Wayland as the graphics system. gpick is based on GTK+ 2.x, which only supports X11 and goes through the ...
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How to determine which part(s) do not support 4K @ 60 Hz (potentially HDR) via HDMI?

Intel HD 530, supports 4K @ 60p (not sure if it supports HDR there). The Intel HD 530 does not support HDR10. The Intel HD 530 only supports HDMI 1.4. HDR10 requires at the minimum HDMI 2.0b. ...
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Using an Nvidia card instead of Intel graphics on Fedora

You say What do I have to do to get Full HD resolution and faster graphics? And then you say I don't want to install the proprietary Nvidia drivers. Which is it? ;) Seriously, the best way to take ...
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How to turn off NVIDIA 1060 card when it is not needed?

There is an option in Nvidia Control Panel to control which applications run on which graphics card. To access these settings right click on your desktop and select Nvidia Control Panel. On the left ...
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how to disable "intel display power saving technology"

Refer to Method 2 of harrymc's answer, you can always disable the Intel Display Power Saving Technology or Adaptive Brightness Settings by turning off the Display Power Savings Options. However, the ...
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how to disable "intel display power saving technology"

There's a GitHub repository (orev/dpst-control) that allows you to easily enable or disable Display Power Saving Technology by running a script file. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/orev/...
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How to adjust overscan with new Intel Graphics Command Center?

You can use the command center custom scale option. Open the intel command center -> Display -> General, scroll to scale and select custom (as opposed to maintain aspect ratio or whatever). This ...
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Forcing a resolution higher than my monitor supports

There are probably more elegant ways to do this - and I've not tested this on the specific game but a really hacky way to get a higher resolution is to simply mirror the output of a higher resolution '...
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Flickering screen when using Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera, ...)

The issue appears to be related to the drivers of integrated Intel GPUs, which are present in many laptops, and their compatibility with newer versions of D3D. There may be a bug associated with D3D11,...
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I see rainbow effect on the borders of objects and text, adjusting ClearType or driver reinstall doesn't resolve the issue

The other two answers are probably better fixes, but one thing you may want to check is if your TV has "Game Mode", "Filmmaker Mode" or "Creator Mode", or other modes you ...
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Kali linux 2016 brightness control not working after upgrade

from kali linux official issue page : Those issues are due to GNOME being in transition between GNOME 3.20 and GNOME 3.21 in Debian Testing currently. We have to wait until updated mutter/gnome-...
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Intel HD Graphics And Radeon Graphics

Quite often, laptops will have two graphics chips. Will AMD graphics cause conflict with the installed Intel graphics driver? Not unless something goes wrong, in laptops they usually supplement ...
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Has Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580 really only 128 MB of memory? How can I force it to use my normal memory too?

According to the Intel Ark page for the processor that comes with that computer. It does, indeed, only come with 128MB of eDRAM. Increasing the amount of RAM that an integrated graphics card can ...
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What is the maximum display resolution on the Intel HD Graphics 4000 chipset on a Lenovo t430?

I just bought an UHD 4K screen in 27" (a Benq2711U) despite the limitation resolution standard : officially it's not possible to have an external monitor in resolution of 3840x2160 with a ...
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Screen rotation hot key (Ctrl+Alt+Up) not responding, what's going on?

The key combination is dependent on your device driver/software. For computers with Intel Graphics, the Intel Control Panel is required. For newer systems (DCH Drivers), the Windows app is called "...
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External monitor is washed out with Intel HD Graphics

How To Geek may have the answer! Essentially HDMI sometimes defaults to RGB Limited. You need to go into your graphics card control panel and change it to RGB Full. On Intel cards it's at the bottom ...
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Change screen resolution in safe mode to the one in normal mode

Safe Mode does loads only default graphics drivers and not drivers specific to your GPU. This means that most media will fail to play or will not play well. Even if you were able to get the ...
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Windows 10 laptop screen messed up after sleeping

I have the same laptop and started having the same problem recently. I was able to roll back the Intel HD driver to version 21.20.16.4727 (from 21.20.16.4735) which appears to have solved the problem. ...
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Windows 10 laptop screen messed up after sleeping

Edit: The same day I posted this, Intel provided a new driver branch (15.60) which also appears to solve the problem from the initial version, 15.60.0.4849. TL;DR - if you use a built-in Intel ...
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