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Title: Freespace 2 Picture Too Dark?
Post by: Owen on March 21, 2003, 03:40:07 pm

I just installed Freespace 2 on a PC running Windows XP and a GF4 Ti400 with the Det 43.30 drivers and the screen is so dark I can hardly see a thing.  My computer monitor brightness is already maxed and after swimming the mouse around in the options, I found the brightness toggle ingame but even at level 5.0 it did not seem to change anything and is still too dark.  Am I doing something wrong or is this just the way the game is?  Thanks in advance.

Title: Freespace 2 Picture Too Dark?
Post by: Shrike on March 21, 2003, 04:10:21 pm

Hopefully you actually get a useful reply instead of the usual spammers with their welcome beams and so forth....

Title: Freespace 2 Picture Too Dark?
Post by: pyro-manic on March 21, 2003, 04:21:00 pm

Umm, is it just FS that is dark, or have you tried some other games as well? I don't know what it could be, but try increasing the gamma value in the options menu. That might sort it. :)  I don't really know what else to suggest, but I'm sure someone will know.

Welcome to HLP, by the way! Thought I'd be the first to say it, but I don't want to annoy Shrike by beaming you. ;)

Title: Freespace 2 Picture Too Dark?
Post by: karajorma on March 21, 2003, 04:24:49 pm

Go to display (from the control panel) and try altering your gamma settings (it might be somewhere in the advanced options). If that is already set to max I don`t know what to do.

Title: Freespace 2 Picture Too Dark?
Post by: pyro-manic on March 21, 2003, 04:31:03 pm

Hey, I said that!

Title: Freespace 2 Picture Too Dark?
Post by: SKYNET-011 on March 21, 2003, 04:36:25 pm

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Originally posted by pyro-manic
Welcome to HLP, by the way! Thought I'd be the first to say it, but I don't want to annoy Shrike by beaming you. ;)

There is that welcome megafunk turret. :p

Title: Freespace 2 Picture Too Dark?
Post by: TopAce on March 21, 2003, 04:40:10 pm

The screen is brighter if you use 16-bit. Use this at all costs, because you cannot see the change while you are pursued by twenty-three Manticores, and ya have half a percent hull.
It also increases the framerate, and the prog is brighter, which is the most important 4 u :nod:

Title: Freespace 2 Picture Too Dark?
Post by: Hippo on March 21, 2003, 05:20:35 pm

either way, FreeSpace is always a dark game.

Title: Freespace 2 Picture Too Dark?
Post by: TopAce on March 21, 2003, 05:29:54 pm

Ahhh .... the dark FS2. Its been seduced by the dark side:)

Title: Freespace 2 Picture Too Dark?
Post by: DragonClaw on March 21, 2003, 05:41:35 pm

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Originally posted by Shrike
Hopefully you actually get a useful reply instead of the usual spammers with their welcome beams and so forth....

;7  Muwhahahahah!!! ;7

(http://hardlight.zapto.org/misc/welcomebeam.jpg)

Title: Freespace 2 Picture Too Dark?
Post by: Stryke 9 on March 21, 2003, 06:10:05 pm

That's... bad. If your monitor is all the way up, the game brightness is all the way up, and you STILL can't see ****, your monitor needs to be tossed.

Title: Freespace 2 Picture Too Dark?
Post by: Owen on March 21, 2003, 06:33:47 pm

Thanks for the suggestions.  I was hoping there was an ingame trick to get it brighter because I wanted to avoid using the Nvidia brightness and gamma adjustments since this is the only game that has really been an issue but I guess there is not much choice.

Title: Freespace 2 Picture Too Dark?
Post by: Odyssey on March 23, 2003, 05:06:20 am

You could always play it in a darkened room. That's what I do - since FS2 is so inherently dark, I put the blinds down and thus reduce glare on the screen.
Makes for a better atmosphere too ^_^

Title: Freespace 2 Picture Too Dark?
Post by: Vertigo1 on March 23, 2003, 06:44:40 pm

You might want to try earlier versions of the detonator drivers.  Have you tried playing on a different monitor?  Do other games have this same issue, or only FS2?

Title: Freespace 2 Picture Too Dark?
Post by: Owen on March 23, 2003, 08:50:10 pm

It is probably a combination of the drivers and monitor.  All my other games seemed fine except for FS2 but now that I raised the brightness using the Nvidia controls all the other games do seem to benefit from the brighter screen.