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Re: Solution to the Doom3 lighting problem

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From: Allan Martin
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:26
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"orison" <orison@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> 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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