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RGB lighting has gone from a niche gimmick to well it's still a gimmick but

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now it's an incredibly common way to customize your PC but even though we're

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just talking about flashing colored lights they're surprisingly annoying to

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control look at all these different RGB Eco systems each with their own app and

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many of them are notoriously buggy and not particularly user friendly and even

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if you become an expert in how to use the five different RGB apps you have

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installed on your one system it's undoubtedly in convenient to have to

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tweak settings in all of them whenever you want to change your PC's overall

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look although there have been other attempts to deal with this problem such

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as signal RGB Microsoft is trying to integrate its own solution directly into

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Windows through a feature called Dynamic lighting which popped up in Windows 11

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in late 2023 instead of having separate apps you can control all of the RGB in

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your computer through Windows settings although sticking a bunch of RGB LEDs

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and gaming peripherals has been pretty popular for for around a decade now the

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technology took time to grow in terms of both product offerings and penetrating

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the market enough to hit the mainstream and not just be a niche feature for

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enthusiasts but now a good amount of people including those without high-end

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setups have multiple RGB components so it makes sense that an easierto ous

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unified solution is now popping up Windows is taking these disperate RGB

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products from different companies and putting them under the same proverbial

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roof using a standard called hid lamp

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array what the heck is that we'll tell you right after we think I fix it the

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the heart of dynamic lighting is an open standard called hid lamp array which is

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itself part of the USB specification hid

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lamp array provides a variety of options to address each LED individually which

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should allow similar customizability to the various proprietary apps and indeed

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you can see that Dynamic lighting provides various effects on its page in

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the settings menu Dynamic lighting can also respect overrides from other

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programs on your computer notably game that sync with your RGB lights depending

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on what exactly is happening during gameplay to enable this you just have to

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tick the slider that says compatible apps in the foreground always control

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lighting if it's not working for you however you might have RGB Hardware that

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doesn't support lamp array now to use Dynamic lighting RGB devices have to

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either support it in their firmware or through a special driver called a VHF

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driver but here's the good news Microsoft is already working with a good

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number of RGB device manufacturers including Razer ASUS hyperx steel series

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HP Logitech MSI a data and NZXT to

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promote broad support for the standard there are already some laptops keyboards

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and mice that support Dynamic lighting but more products should be following

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especially as Dynamic lighting is intended to provide benefits for

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manufacturers as well as users instead of having to write software or

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proprietary firmware on their own Brands can instead just take advantage of the

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lamp array standard leaving them free to instead focus on making the actual

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Hardware better or more Innovative and let's face it it's not like they were

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doing a great job with their own software to begin with ooh sick bird

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Dynamic lighting also makes it much easier to have all the RGB in your

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system sync up in terms of color and effects even if you got parts from

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several different brands unfortunately Hardware manufacturers still use

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different kinds of LEDs that reproduce colors differently so it can't alleviate

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that annoying effect where white looks yellow on your fans but looks purple on

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your RAM sticks here's us Crossing her fingers that over time greater mixing

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and matching of RGB parts from different brands which Dynamic lighting

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incentivizes pushes manufacturers to make their LEDs look the same as well

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