darkness/lightness changing on connect

[Tankdan]

Got my cell phone out since video/ss do not pick up gamma (your video looks fine, but that is not how we see it in game), and this doesnt even do it justice because its even darker than shown.

How it should look:
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The dark void it looks like now:
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As you can see, I cant even see the armor color of people around me whatsoever. It is a mess. It is entirely unplayable unless I use 3rd party programs. I cant even see people without the nametag above their head.

[Gibbyfest420]

I understand gamma and making the vision spells more useful however I see no difference between races its just all terribly dark. I tried loading 2 clients it kinda helps, my nvidia control panel doesnt help, and loading WinEQ is a terrible sollution. If your gonna make light be more of a factor at least adjust so infravision and ultravision works. Please !

[Himalayan]

The darkness of the game itself is very classic. Old everquest was a dark and scary place, and p99 has always seemed way too bright. The problem I see is with the UI. I'm having the same problem as lots of folks, everything has its gamma adjusted, not just the game. I can barely see parts of my UI and it even darkens my browser on the 2nd monitor.

Messed around with WinEQ and it fixes the issue completely. Everything seems perfect using this. Looking at your YT vid nilbog everything seems perfect except for your UI as well.

[rubinoff]

Sorry in advance for terrible pictures taken with my cell phone. I have a 95% NTSC Color Gamut professionally calibrated screen that I play on. When entering the game my gamma is darkened significantly over this calibration. The current in game 100% gamma is it still significantly lower than my default out of game setting. Meaning at 100% in game gamma I cannot match the professional calibration. It takes about 20% increase in gamma to match my out of game settings. I always played with boosted gamma in game so it takes about 30-35% to match my previous levels of gamma before the patch. I've attached some terrible pictures below to show what I see. I have no idea why they came out so terrible using my phone. The first picture is current 100% in game gamma, this picture does not even show how dark it is in game so I turned the gamma down again to 50% and took another picture. This one looks like what I am seeing while trying to play. I also took a picture at 20% boosted which matches my out of game levels for brightness. Hopefully this helps in some way. EDIT : 20-35% over 100% setting in game. I was on 67%ish in game before which was equal to the ~135% now.

[Skew]

Tankdan's s/s goes someway to showing the problem . Thats pretty much what i see. Like my gfx engine died or something.

[norova]

What you see in-game is irrelevant. Adjusting EQ gamma adjusts the entire OS' gamma and it makes the rest of my machine practically unusable. Cranked to 100% it's a bit better but still way lower than it should be. If there was a way to adjust ONLY the eqgame.exe gamma, go for it, but if it effects my entire machine, no thanks.

The common denominator for people not having problems vs. people who are having problems seems to be WinEQ2.0. I don't use it, I play in windowed mode with regular EQ client.

[murrpau]

Bear in mind that Tankdan took that picture with a device that brightened it a little, automatically. Cell phones and digital cameras do this (like point one at your window during the day then point it at the carpet and watch the rapid gamma correction)
Nilbog, we're trying too, so let me put it this way:

- Your screenshot looks fine right now.
- Because my beta client isn't running right now

- When I load up the new beta client, then tab out to look at your screenshot, your screenshot will look dark as if I'm looking through 4 pairs of stacked-up sunglass lenses at it.

[Skew]

WinEq had the ability to fix gamma and so override the game client i believe. Would rather not use it or f. lux though.
I play window mode. Apparently some gfx cards have options to pre-set gamma for an .exe. Will look into that angle. Its not the darkness that bothers me , its the game looking like pacman 1982 that does.

[khanable]

Did lots of playing around.

I am NOT using WinEQ2.0, just using normal window mode:

At anything less than 100% gamma the game is a bit too dark (as well as the UI). The UI looks underexposed and oversaturated.

At 100% gamma it honestly looks pretty good.

On my machine at least!

[Trax]

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

The UI looks underexposed and oversaturated.

I play windowed mode, no WinEQ. IPS Panel Monitor. 100% gamma, still garbage. Everything is completely dark unless I use Nvidia to control my gamma. Also, once I close EQ, everything stays dark. Windows gamma doesn't reset.