darkness/lightness changing on connect

[NegaStoat]

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

My User Interface is certainly darker, but nothing unmanageable. Maybe a few of my darker color hotkeys/text fields will need to be brightened but it's nothing like some of the screenshots I've been seeing posted here. Totally usable.

I'm not like these other savages, Haynar, I'm not so addled with ADHD that I need to keep EverQuest in a window in the corner of my screen while I watch a movie and browse Facebook while Skyping my nephew on a separate monitor.

I'm pretty sure what the pages of this thread is telling Haynar is that different systems with different cards, drivers, and operating systems are having different results with how much is changed with this patch involving the darkness and gamma.

And you have absolutely zero (0) clue if the people reporting back are using windowed mode while dealing with a crap darkened UI + chat lettering or not. I personally use full screen on two different machines, with Win 7 + GTX 750 ti sc card on one and Win XP SP3 + GT 620 on the other, and I'm getting shit on both.

Using F.lux results in getting some of my UI and lettering to look halfways normal, but it still looks like complete ass. And it's NOT classic in tint or brightness.

All of that said, if there's something unique that people are doing with their machines that lessen the effect to make it look like classic, I'm all ears to try it.

Edit - both machines and their cards were updated to the latest November 2014 drivers. It didn't help.

[Silent]

Please for the sake of all that is good, remove the gamma/darkness changes until it is fixed properly. I appreciate all the work you guys have done for the latest patch, but Ultravision/shadowsight, boosting gamma video AMD control center to maximum its a full time job especially if your a person who frequently tabs out to check internet or watch a tv show while playing. The UI is significantly darker and some things almost impossible to see. I don't understand why the UI would be darker /shrug. Personally I can cast ultravision or have a tranix crown on any char I play and I admit classic classic WAS super dark if you had no items, but there is something totally wrong atm with it.

[mindeen]

I can't see the icons for my armor anymore they are so dark, but the whites are still (1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f). Likewise the default green for the ooc chat in the default UI is 1/4 the brightness it previously was. The game is playing really in the wrong portion of the gamma curve.

Not sure how you guys are modifying the client; but if you can't access the frame buffer and modify the gamma there directly then don't do it at all please.

If you do have access to the frame buffer then see how to do it correctly here:

http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPU...ems3_ch24.html

[getsome]

P99 .dlls affecting display changes on our PCs outside our game window is a hack. This change is not classic it is a hack. The reason it happens is because EQ is changing the gamma exponent of the display, instead of changing the gamma exponent of the Direct3D device it uses to render the game.

[khanable]

For as long as I've played EQ in a window the in game gamma setting always affected the OS? It was usually the other way around for me though, everything would brighten up when eq launched. Now at 100% I have no brightening or darkening. Ui looks properly exposed and game looks properly dark.

Have yall tried setting 100% in game, camping (not /q), restarting your machine, and then trying?

[Rupertox]

i found (a guildie told me) a solution, temporal solution... (dunno if anyone said it here already)

open the command promp Win + R

type: dccw.exe

Click "next step" 3 times

Move teh bar to adjust your gamme.


It works until you zone, when Everquest then Touches your config again, what i do is to keep that window open and touch it after each zone .


PD: I do not know why Everquest have to touch my PC Config, dont know if thats good

[Valerik]

Is there a config file that dccw.exe calls that you can set to read only after you change it?

[Rupertox]

i dunno but even with that setup somehow is hurting my eyes alot IRL

[Valerik]

There's a WINEQ 2.0 setting under Options -> EverQuest called Lock Gamma. You might try that if you're using WinEQ

[Rupertox]

not using WinEQ anyway ill wait to servers open, check how it goes the first 2 hours, then park EQ until it gets fixed, i feel that it hurting my eyes hard.