darkness/lightness changing on connect

[Bellringer]

Dynamic Lighting was checked. Unchecked and logged out to desktop. Relogged and ensured it was checked. Logged back in and no change with darkness issue. Still extremely dark.

[Rupertox]

AMD Radeon HD 8240 here

[douglas1999]

While I know classic was known for being dark, I do recall being able to crank my gamma up to see. Tradeoff was that everything was washed out and looked milky, but you could see in the dark. With this change, cranking the gamma brings it up to a "normal" level. I realize it's trying to emulate classic but I think this "fix" is kind of crude and not really representative of how classic gamma actually behaved, at least by my memory.

[Rupertox]

Originally Posted by douglas1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

While I know classic was known for being dark, I do recall being able to crank my gamma up to see. Tradeoff was that everything was washed out and looked milky, but you could see in the dark. With this change, cranking the gamma brings it up to a "normal" level. I realize it's trying to emulate classic but I think this "fix" is kind of crude and not really representative of how classic gamma actually behaved, at least by my memory.

Plus i bet it hurts more our eyes, and it was dark mostly too because Old PCs !

[NegaStoat]

Originally Posted by douglas1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

While I know classic was known for being dark, I do recall being able to crank my gamma up to see. Tradeoff was that everything was washed out and looked milky, but you could see in the dark. With this change, cranking the gamma brings it up to a "normal" level. I realize it's trying to emulate classic but I think this "fix" is kind of crude and not really representative of how classic gamma actually behaved, at least by my memory.

Exactly. I logged in today, had my entire picture darkened to a sharp degree and noticed my text and my UI was darkened as well. It was a 'WTF?' moment because I had never played EQ with that kind of picture.

Dug out my old dell Optiplex GX620 from storage (Win XP SP3), updated the driver of the GT 620 Nivida card in it to current, and plugged in an old Samtron 96B CRT monitor to get my memory going of playing games a decade ago.

Same effect. UI + Text are incredibly dim, along with the whole picture. If this was an attempt at adjusting racial vision in darkness, some more work needs to be done on it.

I'd like to politely ask that the change be reverted so I can actually see the game without jamming up the gamma to wash it out, UI and text included.

[Isoroku]

just checked on another persons computer, its my computer, the SS's i posted when viewed from his computer are fine. hrm. time to find out whats wrong.

[Silent]

Game was super dark for me as well, Ultravision didn't give me that normal blue glow to see better. It acted like it made the entire place normal pre patch look. Sometimes gamma bugs out if you DC or force close EQ, and you have to open EQ to fix the gamma again and either leave it open or restart your computer. I use my video card AMD tool to force fix gamma, and I am able to crank it up so its almost back to normal pre patch but I don't think everyone can do this or knows how.

[Margalis]

So I have a different issue, namely the sky appears to be missing in some zones

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In game all that white is black. It's 9am in that shot. PoG is dark as hell and wasnt two days ago. WL is the same.

Also my UI is not that bright. This looks like I washed it out, but its a straight screenshot.

[Silent]

Did you try disabling or enabling sky/sky art?

[Margalis]

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

Did you try disabling or enabling sky/sky art?

Yep. And its not even all zones, just random ones.