Screen display very light after crash

[Oldjim]

When I have a crash on TDM 2.03 I find that the screen display is very light and the only way I can fix it is to log off from Windows 7 and log on again

Is there another way round it as I assume that a change made by TDM isn't reverting to the previous standard setting

[New Horizon]

Same thing used to happen to me in Doom 3. Just an old artifact from the engine. Not sure if it's something we can fix.

[SteveL]

Yes there are ways round it but it depends on your graphics controller. On my AMD setup I open Catalyst from the system tray and "Reactivate AMD color controls"

[Xarg]

You can also reload the game and quit from the main menu, that usually resets it for me.

[Bikerdude]

you can fix this lightness/gamma issue by moving then reseting the gamma control slider in tdm.

[Oldjim]

Thank you - now I have a couple of options the next time it crashes

[goodtaffer]

No nothing works i have 540m and nothing works please developers solve this problem with a fix.

[duzenko]

Try

r_brightness 1

in a game console

Edited October 16, 2016 by duzenko

[goodtaffer]

tried now not working i should restart.

[MirceaKitsune]

Is the gamma affected system-wide, or only in TDM? If the gamma was permanently modified in Windows, find the gamma slider in the Display menu (somewhere in Control Panel) and simply move the slider back and forth once to reset it. I know because I've had many games do this to my system in the past, as well as permanently changing the resolution... on both Windows and Linux! This is typical after a crash, if Windows relies on the engine to tell it when to set the resolution back after a clean exist.

[Oldjim]

Tried that and it has no effect - somewhere TDM is changing a hidden gamma setting

It is system wide

I now fix it by logging off and logging on again

[lowenz]

It's an old HWgamma OpenGL problem (really well known, it's related to how an application handles the exclusive fullscreen mode gamma)

 

Nostalgia :v

Edited October 19, 2016 by lowenz