darkness/lightness changing on connect

[Isoroku]

damn this stinks, i fixed my issue, im not as dark anymore, the only problem i have now is that it is making my out of game stuff darker.

any way to fix this?

edit: had to update drivers.

[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.

[Erati]

also I notice my character's items which double as a 'light source' are not working as a light source at all

namely my epic which is a rather large light source ( all epics are ) is making no difference in terms of light around me when I equip it or not

[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.

[Ravager]

Does this mean infravision and light sources are working the way they did in classic? Leveling a elf in classic, infravision was useful for seeing mobs in the dark. On P99, if I turned the gamma down, infravision was still useless.

Also, in classic I remember greater lightstones being very useful as light sources, especially for finding your corpse in the dark, which would be illuminated by it.

[NegaStoat]

to the above poster, I was using a halfling which comes stock with Infravision that had a Guise to turn into a Dark Elf on the test server, so I had Ultravision to use as well. There was only a bare minimum of a change to my screen's brightness, and the exceptionally darkened effect on both my UI and chat text remained.

Tested on both my gaming computer as well as that ancient relic that I listed above.

[paulgiamatti]

I have to flatly argue against the "it's classic" argument. It's just an impediment to gameplay in the same way that not being able to link items is. Making everything blindingly dark, no matter how close to classic it is, doesn't better any aspect of the game. Having to manually type out each and every stat of every item, or being required to look that item up on a website, doesn't better any aspect of the game.

All this will accomplish is the requirement for people to manually adjust the brightness/contrast settings of their monitor or their video cards through a driver control each and every time they load EQ, only to have to undo that adjustment when they're done playing.

Please revert. Or, if this was purely unintentional, please work towards a fix. Thank you! Pras devs.

[Juryiel]

This is definitely not what classic looked like. As others have said, it looked dark at default gamma, but i was able to crank up the gamma and be able to see perfectly, but washed-out, which I did regularly. Here gamma seems to have almost no effect. Also, in classic darkness was dark, but during the day I could see just fine without messing with gamma, which is not the case after this patch. I can't even see my UI very well with this change. Should probably return gamma functionality to normal and work on making just night be darker.

[Burt]

/signed for leaving this display crap on beta for now until the kinks are worked out.

[Lunababy]

Also having gamma issues on the velious server. No settings have been changed from my live characters.

PS - It's not character vision. Even the UI is darker.