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Title: Game too dark Post by: JESUS SCOUSE on February 26, 2009, 05:30:07 PM I am having problems with anew install of OA.
The game is far too dark to play. I use Ubuntu and have a ATI Radeon 9200se video card. Before I upgraded my Ubuntu and did a fresh OA install it as fine. I presume it is a Ubuntu problem and have searched the forums but can't find anything. Hoping you lot may be more helpful I am trying this post. I have tried the usual stuff like changing brightness in options. I have tried different settings for /r_gamma. I use vertex lighting. Any ideas? Title: Re: Game too dark Post by: Snickersnack on February 26, 2009, 05:40:05 PM You could try
r_mapoverbrightbits 3 or 4 Title: Re: Game too dark Post by: RAZ3R on February 26, 2009, 06:43:03 PM r_gamma
r_mapoverbrightbits r_overbrightbits r_intensity Are the settings in oa that deal with this. You will also find yoru graphics drivers probably have a way of managing screen brightness for specific applications. Title: Re: Game too dark Post by: epicgoo on February 26, 2009, 10:33:24 PM you might have a dying crt :)
Title: Re: Game too dark Post by: fromhell on February 27, 2009, 12:25:16 AM it's a driver issue. Certain range of radeon drivers in linux has different video brightness method which isn't compatible with the renderer
r_overbrightbits 0 will help. Title: Re: Game too dark Post by: kernel panic on February 27, 2009, 05:28:23 AM Yep, it's a driver issue. And not only happens in Linux, old versions of Catalyst in Windows have the same problem. I don't think I had this problem in Linux with the open source driver, but I may be wrong. It happened for sure with certain versions of fglrx. If you are using the propietary driver you may want to try a couple of different versions starting from 8.9 or so. If you use the oss one you can fill a bug report and try the latest ones from git. Fiddling with gamma settings or whatnot will aleviate the problem, but it's not a fix--and you'll get ugly looks anyway.
Title: Re: Game too dark Post by: JESUS SCOUSE on February 27, 2009, 05:32:13 AM Thanks for the replies folks will try your suggestions.
Title: Re: Game too dark Post by: JESUS SCOUSE on February 27, 2009, 05:34:59 AM What I really need to know is what video card is best for Ubuntu and OA?
Bear in mind I don't work so I need a used one off ebay.. Any suggestions? Title: Re: Game too dark Post by: fromhell on February 27, 2009, 03:20:53 PM A radeon that isn't a 9000/9200 (Radeon 9500 (R300) and up is where ATI support starts to look great for OA)
A Geforce256 and up will also do great. NONE of the 'budget' geforces will work good (fx5200, gf6200, gf7200) Title: Re: Game too dark Post by: JESUS SCOUSE on February 27, 2009, 05:11:33 PM thanks fromhell much apreciated.
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