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Article #86678Re: Solution to the Doom3 lighting problem
From: Allan Martin
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:26
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:26
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"orison" <orison@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:pan.2004.08.11.17.20.54.654753@mindspring.com... > On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 05:24:36 -0700, sol wrote: > > > it is not a problem ffs. it is suppose to be this way to make it > > scarey. maybe you should play mario cart or something > > > > orison <orison@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.08.10.05.52.44.537354@mindspring.com>... > >> Go into your video card settings and increase your gamma and/or > >> brightness. Voila! > > I was actually trying to be sarcastic in response to all the posts I've > seen complaining that the screen is too dark. Mind you, I actually like > the darkness as a part of the game's atmosphere. However, on some machines > where it may actually be TOO dark to see, believe it or not, some people > just don't seem to know that they can tweak their driver settings. After > turning my brightness and gamma up, the game actually looked like it does > oin those cool trailers. I still have to use the flashlight on occasion, > but it's nowhere near as dark as say, those screenshots you take that show > absolutely nothing. Agreed. Once you adjust the gamma setting there is no lighting problem. I increased the gamma setting to 1.5 but after a while realized that I was enjoying the game more at the default setting. >
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