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Re: Doom 3 - Brightness & Linux

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From: Lukas Hosek
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:59
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Lukas Hosek wrote:
> I just installed D3 on my Linux box - everything works and runs 
> smoothly, but unfortunately the game is unplayable because of this 
> brightness thing:
> I need to adjust brightness and contrast (because of this problem with 
> LCDs displaying dark color shades kinda weirdly). I can use the 
> nvidia_settings utility, but the problem is, Doom 3 overrides these 
> settings and the r_brightness setting doesn't really help, because it 
> actually adjusts image intensity, not brightness (it multiplies instead 
> of adding).
> 
> Is there a workaround for this problem? Perhaps a setting which tells 
> Doom not to tinker with the gamma tables?
> 
> Lukas Hosek
Thanks for all the help, but I have already found the solution:

1. run nvidia_settings and adjust the color correction
2. Instead of just doom3 run

(sleep 10; nvidia_settings -l) &
doom3

Lukas Hosek
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From: Lukas Hosek <none.of@your.business>
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Subject: Re: Doom 3 - Brightness & Linux
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:59:05 +0200
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