[Owen]

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.

[Shrike]

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

[pyro-manic]

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.

[karajorma]

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.

[pyro-manic]

Hey, I said that!

[SKYNET-011]

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.

[TopAce]

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

[Hippo]

either way, FreeSpace is always a dark game.

[TopAce]

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

[DragonClaw]

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

 Muwhahahahah!!!

[Stryke 9]

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.

[Owen]

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.

[Odyssey]

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 ^_^

[Vertigo1]

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?

[Owen]

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.