darkness/lightness changing on connect

[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.

[Bellringer]

Hokay.

Windows 7
AMD Radeon 6700 Series (6770 I belelive)
Processor AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor, 3400 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
4 GB RAM

[ghost182]

have ultravision, light source, 100% gamma, just maxxed my screen brightness. I can see but this is not ideal.

[Thyrm]

WinEQ has an option called "lock gamma" that seems to prevent whatever this horrible dark filter is.

[paulgiamatti]

Yeah, definitely install f.lux and just crank it to the brightest setting for now if you haven't. Plus f.lux is awesome in general.

[Nefarum]

So we can see that this gamma change affects some people a ton, some a bit, others not at all. Then there's people who have installed 3rd party programs to undo the change completely. It's not affecting everyone in the same way, and just making a portion of the players experience miserable.

This change needs to be undone.

[drelk001]

I noticed this when I logged back in... woot woot, thank glob I play a gnome [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[paulgiamatti]

Yeah, it's dumb, but I guess I can't harsh on the devs too much. It's a free game, they're volunteering their time, etc. and so forth.

Plus it might just be an ongoing thing that we don't have a completely full understanding of - like, maybe some other changes they implemented required them to do this, and now they have to find a way to mitigate the gamma change, which they're probably already working on. Give them time, install f.lux, figure out a workaround for now. Support devs! Pras.

[Haynar]

It was my change FYI. And it looks great on machines I used to test. Not too dark, unless you were in a dark dungeon with no light.

Testing these type of changes for the masses is difficult, except on beta. I have another attempt to fix, but it may never get tried due to the complexities of testing.

If I were able to reproduce the results other have had, then I could test if it is possible at all.

To the people screaming and complaining: It was put out to test on the beta server. Testing takes place on beta. Get used to it.

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