Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Windows is Killing Terrible RGB Software”.
Rgb lighting has gone from a niche gimmick to well, it’s still a gimmick, but now it’s an incredibly common way to customize your PC, but even though we’re just talking about flashing colored lights, they’re, surprisingly annoying to control. Look at all these different RGB Eco systems, each with their own app, and many of them are notoriously buggy and not particularly user friendly, and even if you become an expert in how to use the five different RGB apps, you have installed on your one system. It’S undoubtedly in convenient to have to tweak settings in all of them whenever you want to change your PC’s overall. Look, although there have been other attempts to deal with this problem, such as signal RGB, Microsoft is trying to integrate its own solution directly into Windows through a feature called Dynamic lighting which popped up in Windows 11 in late 2023. Instead of having separate apps, you can control all of the RGB in your computer through Windows settings. Although sticking a bunch of RGB LEDs and gaming, peripherals has been pretty popular for for around a decade.
Now the technology took time to grow in terms of both product offerings and penetrating the market enough to hit the mainstream and not just be a niche feature for enthusiasts. But now a good amount of people, including those without high-end setups, have multiple RGB components. So it makes sense that an easierto ous, unified solution is now popping up.
Windows is taking these disperate RGB products from different companies and putting them under the same proverbial roof using a standard called hid lamp array. What the heck is that we’ll tell you right after we think I fix it, the sponsor of this video it’s spring, and you know what that means. No, not rain savings, but yes, also rain. I fix it spring sale is on right now and you can save big get 30 % off bundles 20 % off soldering tools and, more after all, when it’s raining, it might be the perfect time to stay inside and fix your stuff ever think about that check. Out the iix it spring sale at the link below so at the heart of dynamic lighting is an open standard called hid. Lamp array, which is itself part of the USB specification hid lamp array, provides a variety of options to address each LED individually, which should allow similar customizability to the various proprietary apps, and indeed, you can see that Dynamic lighting provides various effects on its page in the Settings menu, Dynamic lighting can also respect overrides from other programs on your computer, notably game that sync, with your RGB lights, depending on what exactly is happening during gameplay? To enable this, you just have to tick the slider that says compatible apps in the foreground, always control lighting.
If it’s not working for you, however, you might have RGB Hardware that doesn’t support lamp array now to use Dynamic lighting. Rgb devices have to either support it. In their firmware or through, a special driver called a VHF driver, but here’s the good news. Microsoft is already working with a good number of RGB device manufacturers, including Razer Asus hyperx, steel series, HP, Logitech, MSI, a data and NZXT to promote broad support for the standard.
There are already some laptops, keyboards and mice that support Dynamic lighting, but more products should be following, especially as Dynamic lighting is intended to provide benefits for manufacturers as well as users, instead of having to write software or proprietary firmware on their own Brands. Can instead just take advantage of the lamp array standard, leaving them free to instead focus on making the actual Hardware better or more Innovative? And let’s face it – it’s not like they were doing a great job with their own software. To begin with, ooh sick bird, Dynamic lighting also makes it much easier to have all the RGB in your system, sync up in terms of color and effects, even if you got parts from several different brands. Unfortunately, Hardware manufacturers still use different kinds of LEDs that reproduce colors differently, so it can’t alleviate that annoying effect. Where white looks yellow on your fans but looks purple on your RAM sticks. Here’S us Crossing her fingers that, over time, greater mixing and matching of RGB parts from different brands, which Dynamic lighting incentivizes, pushes manufacturers to make their LEDs look the same as well.
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