Quote - I am using a Toshiba laptop running a NVDIA GEforce Go 7300. I brought up it's control pannel and it says that my gamma is set at 1.00. If I move the gamma slider to around 2.20 (I can't imput the exact number just move the slider and the closest I can get is 2.25), then the screen is blown out too bright and washed out. So I put it back to 1.00.

And thus the confusion rises, unabated. Not your fault, but NVidia.

The gamma control they are showing you is how much correction you want to put onto your system gamma.

The system gamma is the total gamma built into your system - which includes operating system GUI software, graphics driver software, graphics driver hardware, your monitor hardware settings, and the monitor pixels themselves.

Monitor's actually have a physical gamma of 2.5. The system gamma brings the remaining gamma to 2.2, which is the standard. But you can force it to lower. The gamma you're looking at is your NVidia driver gamma correction. You can adjust that and alter your system gamma. For example if you set your NVidia driver gamma to 1.4 then your system gamma will become 2.2 / 1.4 = 1.57, which means your monitor would start to behave like ConnieKat8' monitor.

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