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
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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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