Ok people here's the deal:
1. I play Doom 3 at my own house... with my crappy PC.... ( 5 or 6 or 7
year old not sure
)
CPU: Pentium III 450 mhz
RAM: 256 MB
3D Card: (new) GeForce FX 5200
Monitor: Liyama Vision Master 400
2. I play Doom 3 at my parents house... with their (somewhat
) decent
PC...
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (2.16 GHz)
RAM Memory: 256 MB
3D Card: ATI Radeon 9000
Monitor: HP Pavilion mx70
1. First I play at my pc... everything is very dark. I can hardly see ****
and need to use the flashlight a lot... fps is also low but I dont care
about that.
2. Then I play at my parents pc... everything is very bright !... It's 100x
times more beautifull than at my crappy pc.... because of the brightness !
there are still dark places... but not as dark as case 1.
Fortunately I have posted screenshots of the games progress on both pc's.
At pc 2, I looked at screenshots of pc 1. They looked bright and very
beautifull !
At pc 2, I looked at screenshots of pc 2. They looked bright and very
beautifull !
At pc 1, I looked at screenshots of pc 1. They looked dark, and half not
visible !
At pc 1, I looked at screenshots of pc 2. They looked dark, and half not
visible !
WHAT THE **** ?!?!?!?!?!
I saw two possibilities:
A. Nvidia cards display darker than ATI cards.
B. The Liyama Vision Master displays darker.
I have always had this problem with games: To dark on my PC.
I am pretty sure B is the case here...
My Liyama Vision Master 400 is just not good enough for displaying Doom 3
I wonder:
B1. The monitor is just old... full with dust and worn out stuff. ?
B2. The monitor always sucked ?
Well there isn't much I can do about it... the colors simply suck balls.
I have played around with increasing/decreasing brightness, gamma,
contrast...in 3d Card menu and monitor...
Whatever I do it sux balls... to much brightness is bad for the eyes - too
white.
less contrast - more difference between colors odd enough, but gray.
more contrast - everything gets dark, but white.
NO WAIT A SECOND !!!
That's funny !
I have found the culprit !!!
It's the gamma level !
When I set gamma at 2.0 in Windows everything looks just as good as on
decent pc... maybe even better !!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW BIG DIFFERENCE !!!
And the good thing is:
Windows XP desktop still looks normal/good... everything that's white is
white... everything that s blue is blue !
Now I am really starting to wonder why this is ???
THIS IS SO WEIRD !
I can vaguely remember that I installed Adobe Color Managment once and ever
since that happened it ****ed up my gamma somehow ?
WOW
The gray volume icon in the taskbar does look a little vage now... but I ll
take it
When I played at decent pc (2) I could see the body of this dead zombie:
On crappy pc(1) I could only see the head (left).
http://coolingfanboycott.freewebspac...hThatMeat2.jpg
People can use that screenshot to change their gamma level !
Doom 3 REALLY NEEDS something like that !
A gamma orientation screen... like splinter cell has....
Like some x-x-x-es some x bright, some x medium and some x dark !
I am also making a cool doom 3 the story in pictures website
I will 'release' it soon
so stay tuned =D