Screen stays dark after minimizing or quitting EVE Onli

Hello everyone!

Let me first say before I explain the problem that I have installed the latest drivers, reinstalled the program, and all that jazz and the problem still persists. Pretty much when I minimize or exit from a game I play called EVE Online, my LCD remains really dark. Kind of as if someone turned down the brightness really low on the LCD. I've figured out 2 workarounds but they aren't fixes. I simply log out and log back in and the display brightens to its usual brilliance or I hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and it has the same effect. But once I maximize the game and minimize again the screen darkens once more. Oh and in-game everything is perfect, it's only once I go to the desktop. Any ideas? I personally think its a something wrong with the refresh rate but I ahve no clue as to how to fix that.

I have attached my DxDiag results.

hmm, I play eve on two win7 systems with no issues at all...

Desktop is running 32 bit (7100) with a radeon 4870 and my laptop has 64 bit (7100) with an geforce 8600m

What is your in-game screen resolution? Because I found out the problem if you bump it to the 30-bit setting the screen goes dark, but any lower setting is fine.

I run at 1920x1200 on my desktop and 1680x1050 on the laptop... 24 bit color with 8 bit alpha on both... if you hover over it, you'll get a popup that tells you eve was created in 24 bit color. I don't really know what the point of 30 bit color with 2 bit alpha is since you still get the color banding and dithering in the backgrounds *shrug*

i have the exact same problem, its driving me nuts. I think its a windows setting or something. Eve runs the same resolution as my desktop, when i tab back to windows i can barly read anything.

Your right, the prob is caused when you put eve on 30 bit color mode, works fine on 24 bit.

In properties, under compatibility, disable desktop composition. That should take care of that problem.