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Offline SpitLead

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Why is AH so dark??
« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2001, 02:50:00 PM »
715 - you said >>Settings, Control Panel, Display, then click the Settings tab, then Advanced, then GeForce or TNT, then Additional Properties, then click the Color Correction tab, then slide the Gamma slider up (mine is set to 1.6 for Aces High).


I tried following your steps to change the Gamma correction.  For whatever reason, when I get to Advanced I don't see GeForce or TNT and when i click on Additional Properties there's no Color Correction tab.  This is true for my computer at home and work.  I even went to the Control Panel, Systems and picked the NVidia driver to change properties and there was nothing there either.  I've upped my monitor brighness to 100% and bumped the contrast from 50% to 67% which has helped some.  Still lookin for that Gamma correction factor...
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« Reply #16 on: February 01, 2001, 11:20:00 AM »
***SKurj***
For a 3dfx product this is simple to resolve...

I have a VooDoo 3 2000... not the greatest, but adequate for now. Could you expound on your comment please?

Thanks,

Max
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« Reply #17 on: February 01, 2001, 04:19:00 PM »
Max, if u have the latest drivers, if you don't.. go gettem!!
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Go to Display Properties, Advanced, and then click on the 3dfx colour tab.  You have 4 selections in the upper right side of the display now.  Select Direct3D.  Under the bitmap image to the right you will see sliders labelled R,G,B,  There is also a checkbox labelled Lock Gamma.  Make sure its checked.  I set the sliders to approximately 1.25 for Aces High, but adjust and try Aces to see what you prefer.

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« Reply #18 on: February 01, 2001, 06:41:00 PM »
I STILL can't for the life of me find those Gamma correction sliders...

I've looked High and low :-(
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« Reply #19 on: February 01, 2001, 10:20:00 PM »
Spitlead, what video card? latest drivers?

The gamma sliders i list above are for a voodoo3 (and likely voodoo4/5)
If you don't have a 3dfx product I not much help to you, and if you don't have the latest drivers.. noone can help you  

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« Reply #20 on: February 02, 2001, 11:49:00 PM »
 
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Originally posted by SpitLead:
715 - you said >>Settings, Control Panel, Display, then click the Settings tab, then Advanced, then GeForce or TNT, then Additional Properties, then click the Color Correction tab, then slide the Gamma slider up (mine is set to 1.6 for Aces High).


I tried following your steps to change the Gamma correction.  For whatever reason, when I get to Advanced I don't see GeForce or TNT and when i click on Additional Properties there's no Color Correction tab.  This is true for my computer at home and work.  I even went to the Control Panel, Systems and picked the NVidia driver to change properties and there was nothing there either.  I've upped my monitor brighness to 100% and bumped the contrast from 50% to 67% which has helped some.  Still lookin for that Gamma correction factor...

As I said it depends on what drivers you have installed.  The directions I gave you were for the Nvidia reference drivers.  If you have OEMs drivers the tabs will be different.  I just checked my old computer which has a Diamond Viper V550 (TNT based) and the Gamma is on a tab marked "Gamma Correction".  If the tabs I mentioned don't show up, and you can't find other tabs that refer to color correction or gamma, then you don't have the ability to set the gamma in your current drivers.  The gamma is part of the "extra" settings beyond the standard Windows display settings.  The access to adjusting them comes when the advanced drivers are installed and patch the Display Properties application.  If you can't find the gamma slider it is because the drivers you have installed don't have a gamma slider.  You can install new drivers; you can get them from www.nvidia.com  under support and drivers.  The latest unified drivers from Nvidia are version 6.31 (unified means they support everything from TNTs up to GeForce 2 Ultras).   Be advised that upgrading drivers is fraught with possibly bad consequences- the ultimate being your computer no longer works and the very minimum is having to go through the standard 640x480 VGA driver as an intermediate which causes all your Windows icons to pile up in the upper left corner. Note that the monitor brightness and contrast controls can't do for you what the gamma slider does: they are linear and the gamma is non-linear.
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« Reply #21 on: February 03, 2001, 02:40:00 AM »
715, Thanks.

Read this before and finally got around to actually doing it.

It helps. Thanks.
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« Reply #22 on: February 04, 2001, 10:02:00 AM »
Thanks 715.  I haven't downloaded any updated drivers lately.  I give it a try.
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