Gamma change: Roll it back?

[Vicatin]

Originally Posted by Haynar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Its getting rolled back.

Should get it done later today.

Try setting your gamma slider to max and ensure advanced lighting is checked.

Too much variability between different PCs and video cards.

Its too bad though. The game looks really amazing on PCs where the gamma changes worked as intended.

H

Awesome! Thank you.

[Took]

Tranix crown doesn't change anything.

Dark elf mask doesn't change anything.

[Tnscoot]

Originally Posted by Haynar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Its getting rolled back.

Should get it done later today.

Try setting your gamma slider to max and ensure advanced lighting is checked.

Too much variability between different PCs and video cards.

Its too bad though. The game looks really amazing on PCs where the gamma changes worked as intended.

H

Yes it did look very good, looked great on my PC. Kudos for trying!

[AnthonyHJ]

On my Win8 PC, my Wood elf can barely tell the difference and my human can see with Gamma set to 100 just like in Classic. The issue I am having is that it seems to ramp up the contrast, so shadows are full-on black and pools of light are washed out and nearly white.

Just a shame it breaks the game for other people...

[Rheon]

Yeah, rollback definitely required..its way too dark with my AMD 7970. My temp fix was to install wine-eq and lock gamma.

[douglas1999]

Changes on P99 usually require a high burden of proof that they are classic before they are implemented, so I'm just wondering where the evidence is that classic EQ ever looked this way.

I remember:

-Game was very dark as a human.
-Vision spells like serpent sight or ultravision helped immensely.
-Cranking gamma allowed you to see pretty well.

Now it's just always really dark, vision spells do almost nothing, and cranking the gamma to 100% in game is darker than 21% gamma was prior to the change. I'm all for classic darkness mechanics, but this change isn't close to how classic behaved and is causing more people problems than it's providing a better experience for.

[Malrubius]

I recall it being dark at night and in some dungeons (those without torches, etc.), but this is dark in the daytime too. I don't remember anything about it being dark (or even slightly dark-ish) outdoors in the daytime in classic. :/

[Velerin]

I think people just gotta realize it was different on different machines as Haynar already stated.
For some people it was "its kinda dark and cool and feels more like classic" and others it was "its so dark I cant see a thing as a DE with a GLS in hand"

I logged on in LS at 6pm, lightsource in hand couldn't see a thing. Used sense heading and locs to find my way to Nek. Trying to read the chat box I had to squint and would give me a headache.

[maestrom]

Screenshots for those of us that can't log on atm?

[Exmo]

Screenshots don't reflect gamma changes.