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Bullislander05

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Brightness problem (Vista) [Solved]
« on: July 05, 2008, 03:28:41 pm »
Okay guys.  I've been dealing with this problem for a while now, and it's starting to get rather annoying.

I run Vista Ultimate 32-bit on my computer, and since I'm blessed with a large enough monitor, I play trem in windowed mode so that I can do other things at the same time.  Here's my problem.  I don't run it in XP mode, or administrative mode, I just run it and it's normally windowed.  Now, I turn the brightness all the way up when I play trem so that I can see in-game, but when I do that, the rest of my screen turns bright.  Now, when I usually closed trem, the brightness would go away and my screen would go back to normal, and things would be fine.  I was happy with that set-up.  The problem is, one time I opened two copies of trem, and after a few maneuvers in which I ended up closing both copies, my screen did not return back to it's normal brightness setting, but rather stayed exorbitantly bright.  Now, I cannot read bright web sites with any ease, or view pictures well, or pretty much anything because the screen is so bright.

Anyways, I was wondering if anyone has had this problem with running tremulous in windowed mode in vista, and if anyone has a solution.  I've had the problem in the past, but it was so long ago I can't remember for the life of me how I fixed it.  I've tried searching this forum, but everything I found was just pages and pages of outputs of the tremulous console that had my keywords in it.

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Alright, I just went into my graphics card settings and changed the gamma and turned it down.  Everything is fine now.

I tried the two-client thing also, and it wasn't doing it for me for some reason.  Who knows.  Anyways, thanks for the help!
-Bull
« Last Edit: July 06, 2008, 01:38:00 am by Bullislander05 »
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Re: Brightness problem (Vista)
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2008, 03:31:28 pm »
Try running the game, setting the gamma back to what it should be, and then killing the game so it cant set it back to what it was before?
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Re: Brightness problem (Vista)
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2008, 06:09:21 pm »
On the occaision where that happens to me (I end up running 2 clients to test things fairly often) I tend to just load 1 copy back up for half a second and then close it. That fixes. :)
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Re: Brightness problem (Vista)
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2008, 08:59:18 pm »
I have never used Vista but a friend said to do something like "right click on the Trem icon and set it to run in WinXP compatibility mode." I don't know if that's exactly right, but it can't hurt to try (or can it! dun dun dun!).
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Re: Brightness problem (Vista)
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2008, 11:19:37 pm »
Usually your gfx driver has settings for gamma. Just go there and change it - and maybe save it into a new profile so you can quickly access it if you should need it.
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