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by macros

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I have a TNT2 Ultra Pro graphics driver. I'm using the Det677 driver. I've tried most drivers for this.
Gunna try them all again but thought I'd ask for advice first.
A lot of games are too dark.
Games like Dark Reign, StarCraft, etc. Tribes can be tweaked to be acceptable as can some others. But mostly having the settings in Control panel so high as to make widows unreadable for brightness I get varied degrees of sucess and the game options are somewhat delinquent.
I've also got a GForce2 in the cupboard but it makes no difference. I'm gunna try it again with a variety of drivers.
Could it be that I have a too new version of DirectX? Because I had 8 and chose not to install it with the games.
I have a PII 466 with 384MG of RAM and the games are installed on a 2nd hard drive.

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

If you were to use NVidia's drivers for your TNT2, then they should be fine. I guess you've already tried that, though.

Many games have a "gamma" setting in them and allow you to increase the brightness for that game. Many "card specific" drivers also have their own gamma settings.

It wont be DirectX 8. I've used it for a while and it works fine.

Its also possible your monitor itself is getting old. If possible try another one... perhaps a friend's monitor?

Cheers,
Tim.

by brian

I assume you are using the most up to date drivers and that this tweak is not in the display control settings. Here is a site that has third party progrmas that I have used for my 3dfx card. There are also programs for other cards on the site as well - so dont be folled by the url. This link will take you directly to the nvidia tweaks.
http://www.voodoofiles.com
/type.asp?cat_id=33

by richard_barsby

Hi for some unknown reason most monitor manufacturers set there background brightness to low thus most games like halflife etc the dark corners are to dark so you cannot see enemy in the dark corners. You can set the background brightness level by ajusting the control nearest to the pcb on the eht transformer so that at the maximum brightness setting the darkest part of the screen is just vissible, this is often marked as the screen, the eht transformer is the Black/Grey block on the end of thered cable coming from the top of the tube.

Rich

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