Couldn’t help but notice that Corsair wasn’t on that list of manufacturers….

the gigabyte software is actually such a gigantic security flaw that it is wild that windows even lets you install it. a kernel mode driver that grants unrestricted access to a low level bus without any level of verification or signing.

open rgb is amazing. Having built in rgb control in windows would be pretty cool though

The bigger problem with RGB, is is hard to avoid if you have to get newparts

I hate having to regularly set my RGB settings to "off".

RGB Fusion is hilariously bad even for RGB software. This would be a nice solution

If it works, it'll be nice to have one less piece of malware needed. You've still got windows itself, but hard to get rid of that for most people.

I had to download four of these programs just so I could flip a toggle to turn them off. lol

All I want from RBG is the ability to turn it off

That smooth T-shirt change back and forth

I've discovered that by a complete accident both my keyboard (Razer Ornata) and mouse (Microsoft Pro IntelliMouse) are on the short list of supported devices!

Anything following a standard is good!

It would be sick to have this working with wallpaper engine

I've always been amazed at how terrible most RGB control apps are. I can't think of a single one thats easy to use but still flexible.

I observed a noticeable loss in brightness on my keyboard backlight, but couldn't figure out the cause at first. Turned out that it was Windows 11 and this feature, that added support for my Logitech model. After disabling Dynamic Lighting I finally got my full brightness back.

This is great - OpenRGB would likely benefit from this as well, meaning that support on Linux would get better too.

I had one computer that had a fan that lit up... basically turned it into nightlight that was brighter than an actual nightlight. Now I refuse to have any of that RGB crap in a PC.

When I built my PC after 20 years since the last time, I built a ZERO RGB one, or as much as possible. It was COVID and as such, had to go with some parts that were readily available, like the GPU and Power Supply has RGB, but you never see the Power Supply's and the PNY 3090 I got can turn that off. THOUGH, it is where I learned there's a NON-RGB premium. Similar to Non-Smart Appliance premium nowadays.

All rgb needs to be in one software. Please. We're dying out here

No RGB is amazing, especially RGB fans, (as they look so tacky) and do nothing for performance, and create unnecessary heat. Function over form.

The only RGB in my pc is the gpu and i cant even see it from my chair.

Wait. So there's now a single spot in Windows where I can turn off all of those stupid LED lights? This has made my day.

Pretty nifty, that xkcd comic doesn't really apply when windows has the power to shove it down everyone's throat, which is kinda nice

Motherboard manufactures should have done this within the BIOS, and not with Windows only software. This is not what Windows needs to do.

The biggest reason I thought rgb sucked was all the software. This is a terrific idea. As for the mismatching led colours, perhaps they could have a tool where you give it a live camera feed of the lights and it tunes the colours so they all match.

Always look forward to this

I hope they do a video on whether or not the new standard actually works across multiple manufacturers

I had hoped you'd lean into the tshirt colour change being about RGB and all

4 of my computers are current gen, and none of them are supported by dynamic lighting.. guess I'll find out in 4-5 years if they ever get it to work

I'll be interested when you can link the lights, on the individual components, to their temperature. Red for thermal throttling, orange for very hot, yellow for warm etc.

The neat thing I like about my Powercolor 7900 XT, is that it has a hardware switch to disable all the lights. And a Dual Bios.

I like how Riley's shirt was controlled by different RGB software... again!

For now just use open rgb

iCue keeps not being able to find my K95 keyboard when it reboots... but I just woke it up from sleep, and magically it found it now! I am so sick of manufacturer-specific control panels being so hilariously unreliable. Please please please standardize it already!

I very much like how my 0 LED setup syncs its color really well with the darkness of my room and my heart.

Situation: There are 14 competing standards. People: "14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases!" "Yeah!" Soon: There are 15 competing standards.

MSI mobo lights have always the HUE slightly off in comparison to every other component, even the strips that are directly connected and controlled from the mobo itself....

OpenRGB works most of the time for me but I choose not to do RGB. The software can be so bad if you select dynamic lighting it'll take too much resource.

Last night, my mouse suddenly started glowing blue. It's had the RGB lights disabled for years now. Turns out Windows 11 just decided to turn the lights on with no input from me.

Ah, the Corsair Vengeance with RGB LEDs. I still have my Corsair Vengeance K70 Silver with just blue LEDs. But I'm gonna fix it up, cause many of the LEDs are dead and even more very dim now, so I'll change the switches away from reds, and swap the LEDs to ones with different colors.

ive got parts from razer, asus, gskill, lianli in my pc. was a nightmare having all the individual software suites for each manufacturer, so im at least mildly content with signalrgb taking control. just had a look at the microsoft dynamic lighting and unfortunately appears none of my components support it. could free up so much system resources if i could just set all devices to a solid colour matching my windows accent colour which is basically what ive manually set in signalrgb anyway.

Here's a better idea: offer products without RGB that are better at doing what they were designed to do but cost less because they aren't focusing on an entirely wasteful feature that somehow became standard.

right when aura sync stopped sucking so hard too. all my stuff is already asus anyway so ill keep using aura sync but its nice to have the options in the future.

They don't need to make the LEDs the same. They just need some way for them to be calibrated, and then ideally have a color profile built in--or even just a calibration code. I even run into the problem with a first party app on my smart light bulbs. The colors in the app don't match the bulbs, and changing the hue is not consistent at different brightness and saturation levels. If I had an app that would let me calibrate it, having me choose colors and then adjust until the color on screen was closest, this could be perfectly in sync. Heck, even let people share profiles, ala Steam controller configs.

"It's spring!" Living in Finland, I really really wish it was spring already 😅

I just use open rgb and Artemis together to control all my lighting through "one" program, you just have a server running with open rgb then everything is controlled through Artemis. I would be open to trying it if it is an option for windows 10 users but I'm not upgrading to windows 11 just for lighting control I already have at my fingertips in a pretty unobtrusive way.

This feels like every new JS framework. It's always supposed to fix everything, but in the end it's just one more JS framework. And so are the next 5.

heres an example. Corsair AF120's come in a white rgb version. the more expensive Corsair LL120 have addressable rgb. and the vengeance ddr4 ram is also addressable. the more expensive fan cant make the same white as the RAM and the cheaper AF120. speaking of different LED's of different brands, some brands in this case dont even use the same LED's between products.

Ha! My brother has his keyboard backlight break, turned out windows thought it could do more than it actually could and it bugged out.

Do i need the apps installed anyway? Also, asrock and gigabyte are already compatible?

Noticed it was already enabled and did basically nothing. How do i actually use it then? Because turning off "Lighting Controling Apps in foreground" didnt change it. Do i have to uninstall all rgb software?

4:15 i randomly started holding my breath before this.

I tried it on my Asrock B550M Steel Legend (using the firmware from a different board because they abandoned B550 boards), and it seems like the Windows 11 RGB stuff forgets the color settings when the screen is locked. It also tended to repeatedly blink a bit of the default color pattern before Windows 11 overwrites it. I had to flash back to stock, but now I have the wrong motherboard's RGB controller firmware on it. I asked their support what firmware file to flash to get the correct firmware, and they said: oh, just send in the motherboard for replacement. That sounds like a pain, why not just tell me what command to run to flash it back?

Heck yes, even gaming motherboards have really poor bios and associated apps. You know software that just makes stuff blink is going to be garbage.

I mean... M$ doesn't have the best track record either. I wouldn't assume this will solve the RGB software woes. May just be an instance of "you were supposed to defeat them, not join them."

I’ve been playing with this for a few months now actually and it’s neat, but is certainly still quite buggy.

The only RGB I like are those used for white light to display the components (Fixed white is preferable). Red and green LEDs for status lights are also fine to me

The purpose of all these apps existing is to have the branding all over your desktop. They'll just assure that the generic windows support is ultra barebones and most of the functionality will still need the heavily branded applications.

It is funny how much I used to love RGB in my computer. I mean, I won't go out of my way to avoid it or anything but I just havent really sought it out either with my last build. Fun to see how trends, and my own likes, change over time. That being said, I am still using my keyboard that has the ability to change the lighting for each key.

What's cool is that even if the windows RGB app sucks ( look like it.. ) since it will be the new standard adopted by RGB manufacturer, you can build your own app on top of it to get something better than the native windows one

Situation: There are 14 different RGB softwares. Microsoft: Ridiculous! We need one universal RGB software! Situation: There are 15 different RGB softwares. xkcd standards comic

with the windows dynamic lighting, my AIO pump has RGB does it require the USB connection to work? this is the one I have Corsair Hydro Series H150i PRO RGB 360mm Performance Liquid CPU Cooler and my AsRock Challenger Pro RX 6800 has RGB too tried to use the windows tool no change.

All I want is a uniform pale white, not very light blue, not very light green, not very light red, W H I T E. I would really like 4 diodes to become the norm, the 4th being a white one

The worst part about having different RGB products is that the software all too often fights each other. Not to mention the stupidly incompatible connectors on things. Currently RGB is kind of like the batteries in cordless tools. Internally they're all the same, they all work the same and there is no real reason why they aren't universally compatible. The only reason they aren't is because the connector bits are purposely made different just to inconvenience the consumer. So after a while I kinda gave up. I left the homebrew software for my RAM RGB and removed all the Razor etc crap. Got an Aquacomputer Farbwerk and just connected everything into that. I now have an RGB controller that only needs software when I want to adjust something and that does everything else on it's own.

RGB is like using a coal power plant to heat your house

I don't get the spring sell... what aberage user needs to buy that many replacement-springs?

Running Swafans and thinking of running lian li strimmer rgb extension any ideas on which controllers will help me not need a ton of different controllers to have to connect it all?

I just run openRGB super light on performance tried signal before that it was a little heavy until i found openRGB.

You are still going to have to install the proprietary apps for things like macros so it doesn’t do anything about the amount of apps I have to install

Not for me. I prefer my pc setup to be as opaque and clean as possible without any lights.

Linux has OpenRGB It's been available for years.

I’ve never understood why PC RGB stuff doesn’t just work like a raw RGB strip. Except for cases like ram.

This video actually helped me because Windows randomly decided to mess up my Logitech mouse's rgb

4:08 That is definitely going to happen and not the brands finding some even more annoying way to convince you to buy more stuff from them

I don't think I've ever seen a hardware manufacturer make a good or at least properly functioning software.

I'm glad they're creating a standard for all of the systems to work through, that is a nice feature to have, especially since those with rgb usually have paid a ton of money for their systems

I use a mixture of OpenRGB, ASRock Polychroma and Corsair iCue. there is a part of me that wished i went with all corsair but i havefound their products to be waning in quality in recent years. Its defintely annoying, but im glad this standardisation is occuring. i do feel its late though.

tried it. the only supported peripherals i have like my mouse and keyboard don't do anything when i turn this option on for them.

Yeah, except that i have Logitech G560 speakers that are set to have RGB on the screen sampler option. Win 11 Dynamic Lighting has no such option and it would be ok if i wanted to have all RGB synced to 1 color, but thankfully i can disable it only on the speakers.

thats all well and good but i still need both icue and razer synapse to load different profiles or edit button layout/macro keys so kinda pointless

I would prefer RGB control from a BIOS UI instead. For example MSI Mystic light cannot remember the state on boot and if I uninstall it the animation becomes garbled after pc restart.

I'm trying to think of a more useless feature a computer could have. Maybe install several optical drives so a game can open their trays in sync with what's happening. Or how about a 36.1 sound system, you know 1 speaker for every 10 degrees, I mean 5.1 wasn't enough, so why not.

Finnaly a very simple to solve problem is being solved. Now all we need is a way to calibrate differnt rgb devices so that windows can adjust their output to look simular. (Considering how long it took to get rbg to be unified at all, im not hopeful)

i'm shocked it took this long & even then companies are STILL doing their own standard instead

SignalRGB kills the Logitech drivers to control the RGB on the mouse... But, since it kills Logitech completely, it breaks my steering wheel. I had to go back to using many programs.

Why can't the standard include a color profile like they do for monitors, that'd help them match up

Nice shirt change lol you update your own RGB settings?

The only RGB setting I require is a hardware switch, to turn it off without voiding warranty.

Riley holds LTT Media Group together. He’s like the French horn in a woodwind quintet; you wouldn’t think they’re necessary but they’re the glue of the group.

signal RGB has brought my RGB together in harmony

artemis + openrgb my beloved

Here's where I kind of wish Microsoft would have looked at the open RGB project because it would have been very useful to have them on board.... Maybe we could have gotten fixes for some of the hardware that the project doesn't have on hand to reverse engineer

Still waiting for Corsair support :/

A more likely solution is a per array white balance adjustment in the software.

Why can't we buy non-ricey hardware without having to shell out for enterprise gear? Normal green FR4 boards. No lighting. Bare aluminum and normal shaped heat sinks. No stupid cable sleeving. Stamped galvanized sheet metal cases. Sleeves make no sense. They used to be combing multiple wires into one round cable. Now they're just to make wires look like fabric, and it actually makes them fatter. Optical drives.

Next build I'm going no RGB Small factor PC, my mjaor annoyance with RGB is the amount of wires for cable management .

Incidentally, OpenRGB had most of this resolved a few years ago I'm pretty sure. I reverse-engineered the SuperIO registers on my motherboard for that project.

I have an acer nitro 17 and now my rgb keyboard is stuck in “breathing” mode, incant change it to nothing else, the only othe option available is to set lights color by area, somebode knows how i can fix it?

OpenRGB and you're done. No need to wait for the manufacturer to support some Microsoft exclusive thing, OpenRGB already does it (almost) all. Added bonus: It's easy to script and automate so for example my lighting changes depending on temps and load.

The 5 apps to control the lighting is painfully true. Need a seperate app just to change the color of a tiny gigabyte logo on my gpu. Then you have aida64 for the sensor panel, msi afterburner to stop the gpu fans constantly coming on and off at idle, razer synapse because the naga trinity 12 keypad is the best mouse ever made. Im at 24% ram usage at idle already.