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Doom 3, Wow gamma settings make a big difference !
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 |
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