f.lux program for your eyes

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I've been using this program for quite a while now and I recommend it

This simple program changes the temperature of your screen depending on the hour so if you're using PC at 1am with the screen on brightest, this program is going to bring it down so your eyes doesn't have to absorb all of that light at this time..

Check it out, it's really cool

Click here to download/read about

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Dainius

But it only adds orange tone to my screen. Brightness stays the same.

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wotgamer

Yeah, it reduces the glare at night. For brightness, try something like this or this?

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Dronak

Yes, this is a nice program. I've been using it for quite a while, too. It affects the color of the screen rather than the brightness though, so you still need to control brightness on your own. But I still think it's helpful. At first you may notice the color difference, but after a while you should get used to it. That's how it went with me, and now I only really notice f.lux if it's not running, because then my screen looks wrong.

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Tha14GR

I use it at the moment and it is pretty good! I used to have headaches and I couldn't sleep well at night but now that's all fine! :D

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MoShU23

How much memory is using? I am thinking about ram memory

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GneissGuy

At this very moment mine is using 4,084K, so it's not much at all.

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Dronak

It might depend on the settings you use or other computer-specific factors. Mine's using 8,940 K of memory right now, which still isn't too bad.

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wotgamer

5-6mb, I recall. Might vary if you're not on Windows.

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Tha14GR

740b RAM |
4.628 VM

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MoShU23

Cheers, I will give it a try then :D

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Cim

The only thing to keep in mind is that it should be on "Fast" transition if you game a lot. When it changes the color temperature it can cause games to stutter slightly, so you don't want the transition to take an hour. Not really a problem when the transition effect is 20 seconds as it is on fast though.

Other than that it works fantastically, been using it for several years now and it's always the first program I install on any computer I use.

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Pyta

I thought it don't affect games (at least some of them). Maybe I'm wrong.

I have the slow (1 hour) transition set up and I never noticed any shuttering.

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Cim

It's a very slight stuttering that you can notice in games where you have high framerates. Only seems to happen when flux updates the color though, so it's basically a non-issue when using the fast transition.

The actual color changes does work in most games from what I've seen. There's only the odd game once in a while that uses it's own color profile where it does not.

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zidine100

i tried it, i dont like it, i like my screen looking the way it is and not yellow.

okay im being harsh but it just looks yellower to me and worse.

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Suldok

Well as long as you've tried it. ;)

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Pyta

The sudden change when you turn that on is pretty huge; in indeed looks a bit too yellow at start.
But if you set it so that the screen changes in the course of the whole hour, you don't notice that. After a couple days of using it, I must say it's much more comfortable at night. Btw. fullscreen apps like games are not affected by this AFAIK.

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yellowcaster

I just dowloaded it (: its ok (:

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ahoym8

My eyes! The goggles do nothing...

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