What's up with SoE and gamma correction?

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Richard Carpenter - 28 Nov 2005 00:39 GMT

First EQ, now EQ2. Neither game can manage gamma levels. In EQ, any time I
go from windowed to full-screen mode or vice versa, the gamma setting drops
to the point where I can barely see. All I have to do it nudge the gamma
slider a little and back, and it corrects itself.

Now in EQ2, I thought I'd adjust the size of the letterbox and as soon as I
do, there goes the gamma levels.

This has been this way through a couple of different graphics cards on my
part (though both were ATI). I've /bug'ed it several times. I just don't
understand why they can't figure this one out.

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Impmon - 28 Nov 2005 01:12 GMT

>This has been this way through a couple of different graphics cards on my
>part (though both were ATI). I've /bug'ed it several times. I just don't
>understand why they can't figure this one out.

This doesn't happen with me at all though I use NVidia cards. It
sounds more like video driver issue rather than game issue. If I used
/exit to get out of EQ quickly, the gamma setting doesn't revert to
default at all so everything's too bright afterward.

I do have an annoying and reproduceable issue: when I change between
windowed mode and full screen mode, the plane clip gets reset to zero
regardless of the setting on the slider. Touch the slider and the
clip goes back to the way it should be. This happened through 3
different NVidia cards and 2 years worth of drivers.

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Richard Carpenter - 28 Nov 2005 02:11 GMT

>>This has been this way through a couple of different graphics cards on
>>my part (though both were ATI). I've /bug'ed it several times. I just
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> clip goes back to the way it should be. This happened through 3
> different NVidia cards and 2 years worth of drivers.

That is exactly how my gamma correction problem works. Touch the slider and
it's fine.

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skaw - 28 Nov 2005 10:41 GMT

I've had the gamma issue for well over a year, on a variety of Nvidia
and ATI cards. EQ is the only game (of many) that suffers from the
problem.

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