Why not use a game setting with higher gamma, and then a normal desktop
setting? With nvidia drivers you can set that easily. Right click on the
task bar icon and choose your color setting before launching doom3.
I have a "doom3" color setting, and then use "restore hardware defaults" for
my normal desktop. Set it up in the color correction page of the Nvidia
drivers -- save your higher gamma as "doom3" or whatever you want to call
it.
"Robertjr" wrote in message
nk.net...
I was wondering the same thing. My systems specs are pretty good. My
monitor
isn't that old. Yet I need a friggin flashlight for most of the game so
far.
This blows! I tried resetting the gamma level and it was too bright on my
desktop.
: (
"Skybuck Flying" wrote in message
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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