Windows 10 Screen darkens considerably when viewing a dark page

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My screen darkens considerably when viewing a dark image or web page, all elements darken, images and user interface. As soon as I navigate to a brighter page, the brightness fades back up again. This has been happening since March 2020.


Windows 10 Home (x64)

AMD Radeon R9 200 / HD 7900 Series [Display adapter]
Hanns.G HW191 [Monitor]



This is a desktop, not a laptop.

I’ve tried another monitor, same results.

I’ve uninstalled and updated graphics drivers and updated Windows.

Graphics drivers are up to date and the GPU benchmarks okay and shows no on screen glitches


It doesn’t have adaptive display: there are no settings for it in Windows.

There is no adaptive brightness on any power display settings, even on advanced mode.

There don’t appear to be any settings for it on the monitor either (unless I'm missing something, but it didn't do this before March).

There are also no settings for adaptive display in the graphics card software.

There are no on board Intel graphics settings I can access, the machine has an AMD Radeon card.

Registry entries for adaptive brightness do not exist.


How can the display be adapting to ambient light levels when it does doesn’t have this ability?

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