darkness/lightness changing on connect

[khanable]

Here is how things are working for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgRQi2BVIkw

On a desktop - Nvidia GTX660Ti, U2412m monitor, 100% gamma - human bard -> dark elf bard, froglok crown on/off. No external gamma fuckerwithers, just Nvidia control panel set to application controlled and flux completely closed out. EQ in a normal window (not using wineq2.0).

How many of ya'll with extreme darkness are on a laptop?

edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghyMkNLkBng v2 now with bard ultravision song

[khanable]

Talked to a few folks in game (and out)

I'm a statistician IRL and I'm going to ignore everything I know

People who think it looks decent/classic/not awful = desktop
People who think it's literally unplayable = laptop
People who don't care = zanderr = mac desktop and laptop and no shits given

Causation and stuff

[zanderklocke]

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

Talked to a few folks in game (and out)

I'm a statistician IRL and I'm going to ignore everything I know

People who think it looks decent/classic/not awful = desktop
People who think it's literally unplayable = laptop
People who don't care = zanderr = mac desktop and laptop and no shits given

Causation and stuff

I liek!!!1

I run bootcamp on an iMac and play in windowed mode through WinEQ 2...you do not want to play full screen on a 27 inch monitor. I downloaded f lux per Cucumber's advice, and that seemed to make everything much better. You can just disable it when you're not playing the game if you don't like how it tints your monitor to protect your eyes.

I have not tested on my 13 inch macbook pro bootcamped.

Yeah, it looks different than before, but with f lux, it's pretty tolerable. Long-term I suppose it would be nice to have this fixed or reworked, and I can sympathize with people who don't want to put more software on their computer to make the game run better. However, for the time being, I highly suggest trying f lux.

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[Malrubius]

It's not a desktop/laptop thing. It's a full screen/windowed thing. If you are full-screen, you won't notice that the rest of your system is hosed up.

I'm all for classic darkness, and giving some purpose to infravision, ultravision, and all those light-source objects. Before I ran EQ this morning, I was on the dark side.

BUT, now that I've run it *on a desktop* - my email is dark, my browser is dark, my background screen is dark. Everything is dark. This would be considered a heinous bug with any other program, and I think it's a bug here too.

[khanable]

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

It's not a desktop/laptop thing. It's a full screen/windowed thing. If you are full-screen, you won't notice that the rest of your system is hosed up.

I'm all for classic darkness, and giving some purpose to infravision, ultravision, and all those light-source objects. Before I ran EQ this morning, I was on the dark side.

BUT, now that I've run it *on a desktop* - my email is dark, my browser is dark, my background screen is dark. Everything is dark. This would be considered a heinous bug with any other program, and I think it's a bug here too.

Adjust to 100% gamma in game, camp out (don't q), restart computer, see if it's still terrible to your system.

After doing this I don't see much, if any, change in darkness to other OS things

[Malrubius]

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

Adjust to 100% gamma in game, camp out (don't q), restart computer, see if it's still terrible to your system.

After doing this I don't see much, if any, change in darkness to other OS things

Thanks, definite improvement. Running EQ still darkens everything, but not to the same extent. It's more useable now, but still an intrusive implementation, imo.

[Margalis]

Zone that had skies before patch but don't now and are permanent dark -

Plane of Growth
Wakening Lands
Cobalt Scar

Possibly missing - Plane of Mischief. Looking at Alla screenshots the sky is dark grey, but mine is the same pitch black.

All screenshot I take in these zones have the same BRIGHT white sky/tinting that my previous screenshot did. In game Black, in screens white.
Other zones are fine. I have tried every combo of sky on/off/layering I could think of.

My video card is shite. I play on an old laptop. It's an Intel HD Graphics card. Windows 7

[Man0warr]

Haynar you have outdone yourself - this is worse than the 1% spell resist patch in it's unclassic implementation. Whatever you did, it destroys the gamma on entire computers, not just EQ.

[douglas1999]

I noticed that the titanium client's built-in ultravision is still present, so I don't really see how this patch makes vision spells any more useful. I still get the titanium auto-ultravision that kicks in 30-40 seconds after logging in, which makes all the geometry of the landscape blueish. It's just like 80% darker now.

I like the intent behind this change but definitely think it needs some re-tooling before it's implemented. Please revert.

[Origin]

I don't care so much that it fucks with EQs gamma. If you want us to play blind, that's your prerogative. But the fact that my comp's gamma is fucked while playing EQ (read: can't see shit even when tabbed out, Captain) really pisses me off.

Fix it, please.