darkness/lightness changing on connect

[Valerik]

Is there a config file that dccw.exe calls that you can set to read only after you change it?

[Rupertox]

i dunno but even with that setup somehow is hurting my eyes alot IRL

[Valerik]

There's a WINEQ 2.0 setting under Options -> EverQuest called Lock Gamma. You might try that if you're using WinEQ

[Rupertox]

not using WinEQ anyway ill wait to servers open, check how it goes the first 2 hours, then park EQ until it gets fixed, i feel that it hurting my eyes hard.

[khanable]

Here is how things are working for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgRQi2BVIkw

On a desktop - Nvidia GTX660Ti, U2412m monitor, 100% gamma - human bard -> dark elf bard, froglok crown on/off. No external gamma fuckerwithers, just Nvidia control panel set to application controlled and flux completely closed out. EQ in a normal window (not using wineq2.0).

How many of ya'll with extreme darkness are on a laptop?

edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghyMkNLkBng v2 now with bard ultravision song

[paulgiamatti]

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

This is extremely close to how I play with f.lux

Honestly, f.lux isn't super bright at all - on my human bard I had to buy a froglok crown to see in dark tunnels.

I've been fully immersed in the darkness for years now, ya'll playing eq on the surface of the sun or something

when I disable f.lux (completely close it out and restart eq) it's extremely dark - I use the same UI nilbog, and mine is hardly readable since the UI becomes so dark as well as the game.

f.lux also fixes the problem for me, although it's still super annoying to have to adjust f.lux to the brightest possible setting in order to have EQ look relatively normal, since I normally use f.lux when I'm not playing EQ to dim the brightness of my monitor.

[khanable]

Talked to a few folks in game (and out)

I'm a statistician IRL and I'm going to ignore everything I know

People who think it looks decent/classic/not awful = desktop
People who think it's literally unplayable = laptop
People who don't care = zanderr = mac desktop and laptop and no shits given

Causation and stuff

[Callon]

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

It happens as soon as you hit play from server select, even char select is super dark. Before this when I would hit play it would get brighter.

+1 Happening when I hit play from server select. As stated previously.

Also I am playing on a Laptop.

[Malrubius]

It's not a desktop/laptop thing. It's a full screen/windowed thing. If you are full-screen, you won't notice that the rest of your system is hosed up.

I'm all for classic darkness, and giving some purpose to infravision, ultravision, and all those light-source objects. Before I ran EQ this morning, I was on the dark side.

BUT, now that I've run it *on a desktop* - my email is dark, my browser is dark, my background screen is dark. Everything is dark. This would be considered a heinous bug with any other program, and I think it's a bug here too.

[khanable]

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

It's not a desktop/laptop thing. It's a full screen/windowed thing. If you are full-screen, you won't notice that the rest of your system is hosed up.

I'm all for classic darkness, and giving some purpose to infravision, ultravision, and all those light-source objects. Before I ran EQ this morning, I was on the dark side.

BUT, now that I've run it *on a desktop* - my email is dark, my browser is dark, my background screen is dark. Everything is dark. This would be considered a heinous bug with any other program, and I think it's a bug here too.

Adjust to 100% gamma in game, camp out (don't q), restart computer, see if it's still terrible to your system.

After doing this I don't see much, if any, change in darkness to other OS things