Sony VAIO laptop upgrade to Windows 8.1 brightness problem SOLVED!!!

Anonymous
2013-10-22T16:48:25+00:00

Just sharing the solution to this.  Recently I have been searching all posts, forums, and questions/answers on the net.  But I have not been able to solve the problem of screen brightness adjustability on my VAIO laptop.  Some minutes ago, I updated all my drivers (Intel) on the official sony website, which is available to all sony users.  The problem still persisted.

What really solved the problem is that the NVIDIA graphics was outdated.  I have a GT740M, and updated it to 8.11.18.1146 and rebooted.  The update is available in VAIO Update (desktop).  Now my screen brightness can be adjusted, as I normally did, with the Fn Key!

Hope this helps other VAIO users.  Good Luck!

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-03-06T09:43:44+00:00

    KHS123

    HA! Right after I read this from you I checked my brightness and it is not working anymore, darn! Unlike you mine is stuck on the highest setting. I guess Sony and Microsoft love making fools out of us :(

    I also have a Dell Venue 8 running win8.1 and if you download these 3 updates you lose your WIFI... I spent many hours on this doing what they said to do and it was just a runaround, so I just uninstalled the 3 updates and hid them from Windows update... problem solved.

    Seems like all I do lately is troubleshoot Microsoft's software.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-03-05T09:33:30+00:00

    Funny how life is. I was having problems with my brightness since I updated to Win8.1, I got tired of the brightness and decided today to do something about it. I tried to do all the Vaio updates, read through all these and really didn't find any that worked for my Vaio E Series SVE1413CCXW

    AND THEN I noticed Windows Update had this waiting to be installed:

    Intel Corporation - Graphics Adapter WDDM1.1, Graphics Adapter WDDM1.2, Graphics Adapter WDDM1.3 - Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000

    Installation date: ‎3/‎2/‎2014 10:37 PM

    Installation status: Succeeded

    Update type: Optional

    Intel Corporation Graphics Adapter WDDM1.1, Graphics Adapter WDDM1.2, Graphics Adapter WDDM1.3 software update released in January, 2014

    Now my Brightness controls work just fine :)

    Thanks BobDeLoyd for the input.

    Like you, I also downloaded the update immediately on seeing your post, applied it and was happy for exactly a day.

    That's right, only for a day! Because the very next day on 4th March to be precise, things were back to normal, I mean abnormal, Lolzzzzzz.

    The brightness level has got stuck at the lowest level again. It does not move up at all.

    Guess Win 8.1 has screwed up everything and neither Intel nor Sony is doing anything in the matter at all. Nor will they ever do anything about it, not even Microsoft for that matter.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-03-03T07:09:36+00:00

    Funny how life is. I was having problems with my brightness since I updated to Win8.1, I got tired of the brightness and decided today to do something about it. I tried to do all the Vaio updates, read through all these and really didn't find any that worked for my Vaio E Series SVE1413CCXW

    AND THEN I noticed Windows Update had this waiting to be installed:

    Intel Corporation - Graphics Adapter WDDM1.1, Graphics Adapter WDDM1.2, Graphics Adapter WDDM1.3 - Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000

    Installation date: ‎3/‎2/‎2014 10:37 PM

    Installation status: Succeeded

    Update type: Optional

    Intel Corporation Graphics Adapter WDDM1.1, Graphics Adapter WDDM1.2, Graphics Adapter WDDM1.3 software update released in January, 2014

    Now my Brightness controls work just fine :)

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-02-23T17:21:51+00:00

    this worked for me as well, after turning off 'enable adaptive display' for all the power options and in the vaio control centre, my brightness still kept reverting to 100% - but turning off the Display Brightness setting in the IMAGE QUALITY finally did the trick - even when 'enable adaptive display' is turned back on!! so thanks! 

    I am unable to find Display Brightness under Image Quality in Vaio Control Centre. My Model is SVF15215SNW with Win8.1. I get only 2 options in Image Quality - External Display Resolution and Display Color Mode. Under the 1st one, all options are grayed out, meaning we have to connect an external display for the options to work. Under the 2nd option, I get 4 sub options - do not apply color mode, vivid, natural and text. 

    So do you mean to change the color mode to do not apply color mode? When you say Turning off display brightness setting.

    My Vaio Control Centre version is 6.2.11.09270. How to update this and what is the latest version?

    TIA.

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-02-07T07:17:37+00:00

    this worked for me as well, after turning off 'enable adaptive display' for all the power options and in the vaio control centre, my brightness still kept reverting to 100% - but turning off the Display Brightness setting in the IMAGE QUALITY finally did the trick - even when 'enable adaptive display' is turned back on!! so thanks!

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