Brightness and Gamma

[godfatherbrak]

I have an LG ultrawidescreen monitor.  When I use the brightness or gamma sliders, there's no difference in the game. It's a bit too dark right now, which makes it frustrating.  I've looked through the other people asking for help in fixing it but they don't seem to have worked.  I've also changed it in the .ini file and that doesn't make a difference.

 

Any idea what might be causing those to not do anything?

[duzenko]

First off, does it work in other games?

E.g. Quake3

[stgatilov]

Do you happen to use Linux?

A good news is that 2.08 will apply gamma/brightness internally, so most likely it will work for everyone.

The bad news is that realistically 2.08 will come out in something like 3 months from now. Not something to wait for.

 

Workarounds to try for now:

1. Enable postprocessing in video menu or via cvar g_postprocess 1. After that you might want to reduce bloom to zero to avoid blurry look. Then tweak cvars g_postprocess_sceneGamma and g_postprocess_sceneExposure instead of gamma and brightness. One important thing is that g_postprocess_sceneGamma is inversed. So if you want to raise gamma to 1.5, you have to set g_postprocess_sceneGamma 0.666.
2. Use r_ambiendMinLevel and r_ambientGamma to make things more visible. I'm not sure if these cvars were released in 2.07 though.

 

If you are not certain how to apply these workaround, feel free to ask --- I can write a precise instruction.

[godfatherbrak]

I'll give those a shot.  I'm not on Linux but I just adjusted my brightness on the monitor as a whole, which worked.

Gamma, etc. works find in other games. Not sure why it was a thing here.