darkness/lightness changing on connect

[Man0warr]

The game is doing something to your desktop gamma settings. I don't know how.

Pretty sure they are forcing it on the system settings using their nifty DLL they have running to track down multiple IP address infractions, botting, hacking, etc.

Not classic, but for what it was being used for (curbing hacking) and not what it could be used for (gathering system information, keyboard logging, etc), most people weren't complaining.

I'm a bit confused about a lot of the comments where people are questioning why EQ suddenly controls your OS gamma settings - wasn't this always the case? I get that it was likely dependent on your system, but as long as I can remember window mode always made the rest of my desktop washed out.

Never happened to me using WinEQ2 and either ATI or Nvidia cards (I had both at different times) once windowed mode was made available. It's possible WinEQ2 had some sort of fix that it ran to prevent the washed out desktop.

Also, even if what you say happened did - that's the complete opposite of what's happening on P99. I could deal with my desktop being washed out, but P99 is making the desktop gamma lower which makes doing anything else on my computer a huge fucking chore. The worst part is when closing EQ it doesn't restore the gamma correctly.

[khanable]

Originally Posted by Man0warr [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Pretty sure they are forcing it on the system settings using their nifty DLL they have running to track down multiple IP address infractions, botting, hacking, etc.

Not classic, but for what it was being used for (curbing hacking) and not what it could be used for (gathering system information, keyboard logging, etc), most people weren't complaining.



Never happened to me using WinEQ2 and either ATI or Nvidia cards (I had both at different times) once windowed mode was made available. It's possible WinEQ2 had some sort of fix that it ran to prevent the washed out desktop.

Also, even if what you say happened did - that's the complete opposite of what's happening on P99. I could deal with my desktop being washed out, but P99 is making the desktop gamma lower which makes doing anything else on my computer a huge fucking chore. The worst part is when closing EQ it doesn't restore the gamma correctly.

Have you done any of the suggestions in this thread? I.e., not use wineq, set to 100% and camp fully/restart, etc?

[Man0warr]

Originally Posted by khanable [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Have you done any of the suggestions in this thread? I.e., not use wineq, set to 100% and camp fully/restart, etc?

I don't use WinEQ2 on for P99 as the default windowed mode with Titanium client has always worked fine for me.

Also, you and other people suggesting 3rd party program like F.lux to get around the issue makes you guys sound like total hypocrites. Play without F.lux if you want the intended developer experience rabble rabble.

I don't want to have to use WinEQ2 or F.lux to get around this issue, doesn't that prove the whole change is retarded?

[khanable]

Originally Posted by Man0warr [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don't use WinEQ2 on for P99 as the default windowed mode with Titanium client has always worked fine for me.

Also, you and other people suggesting 3rd party program like F.lux to get around the issue makes you guys sound like total hypocrites. Play without F.lux if you want the intended developer experience rabble rabble.

I don't want to have to use WinEQ2 or F.lux to get around this issue, doesn't that prove the whole change is retarded?

I fixed my own issues. I originally used F.lux to fix it and I found better ways to fix it. I never advocated using wineq2. I said not to use it.

It works out of the box for me - no flux, no gamma hacks in the nvidia control panel, just works and looks great. Read the thread.

[NegaStoat]

The best fix that worked for me and my setup (a WinXP SP 3 machine w/ Nvidia card).

Entered the game, opened up the game options panel, selected Display, moved the Gamma slider to 100. Closed the options panel, camped the character out normally to the character select screen, exited the client from there normally with a logout. Once I was back on Desktop, I restarted my computer.

On my desktop once more, I right clicked on it to bring up my quick Windows display menu and selected NVidia control panel. Under the Display portion of the control panel I clicked on 'adjust desktop color settings'. From here I moved my Gamma from the normal 100 setting to 135.

I did install the F.lux program that was linked earlier in this thread and now I start it. I've set the 'daytime' and 'at night' settings slider bubbles all the way to the right and closed the tab.

At this point I can play the game with my UI and chat letter text at the same brightness and quality I had before. When I'm done playing the game and I'm back on my desktop, I can pull up the Nvidia panel again and take my gamma back from 135 to 100 for a normal appearance.

This is a super stupid ghetto way of keeping my UI + text looking the way before this fix, but I'll cope. I've decided to just set up a dual boot Win 7 / Win XP partition on my gaming computer and have the Win XP boot be solely for EQ use, so all of the above isn't too troublesome for me.

I really hope this helps others. It would be better if the whole thing was reverted so that the global Gamma change didn't take out the UI+ chat as a blanket effect.