CSS brightness trouble

luckypapyrussam · 15 Apr 2006 at 19:41

Hi there, i recently stared playing Counter Strike Source and it seems my moniter is really too dark, i have turned my moniter brightness all the *** up and i have turned the gamma to full on the game, i have also right clicked the desktop > propeties > settings > advanced and turned everyhin full and on my desktop it goes very bright, but nothing seems to change in game, i basically cant see anything when i go into a tunnel, any help would be great.

Thanks

Luckypapyrussam

p.s. any plugins or anythin to make my moniter brighter when playing games?

KizZ · 15 Apr 2006 at 19:43

Try this:

Open CSS go to options>video>adjust brightness levels

luckypapyrussam · 15 Apr 2006 at 19:53

Yes i have tried that, also when im on my desktop it is really bright but in game it doesnt seem to change...

aftershxck · 15 Apr 2006 at 20:52

Try Powerstrip

sniffy · 16 Apr 2006 at 01:44

I have a similar problem. My CSS brightness is SO low. I used to be able to use the mat_monitor_gamma x command but they restricted it. I can understand why they did but if you still want to exploit, nothing is stopping you whacking your desktop brightness right up.

Basically what I do is bind a colour scheme to a keyboard shortcut. I've binded Ctrl + Alt + O for default brightness and P for CSS

I believe I use an ATI program called TrueColor (I assume it's ATI's as I really don't remember downloading it. I've only ever downloaded Powerstrip, I assume it isn't an extension of TrueColor.)

luckypapyrussam · 16 Apr 2006 at 06:36

Well.... now i have installed new graphics card drivers and my CSS seems to be brightner now but now i am having problems with BattleField 2, plus battlefield 2 doesnt have any brigtness ajusters... and that power strip works on my desktop but when i turn the game on it just goes back to the way it was :S, please can someone help this really need to be fixed quickly :S

VaderDSL · 16 Apr 2006 at 07:41

If you have an ATI card, download and install ATI Tray Tools, then assign a hotkey to increase gamma and decrease gamma, in game press assigned keys and increase your gamma

darreny · 16 Apr 2006 at 09:38

i was having this trouble to and its annoying as a lot of servers have friendly fire on, powerstrip works for me

luckypapyrussam · 16 Apr 2006 at 19:07

Looked on the ATI website and cant find a link to the tray tools, can anyone offer me a link please.. also power strip works... its just the brighness doesnt stay bright once the game has booted up, i dont no what this problem could be... when i turn the brightness up with power strip i can make it really bright on the desktop ( alomost too bright to see) but when i boot the game up i get no gamma or colour change at all!

Sam.

Inferno99 · 16 Apr 2006 at 22:57

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=733

With ATI Tray tools you can make profiles for each of your games. So basically it can automatically increase the gamma when loading the game and revert when returning to windows. I either use this for my ATI cards or Rivatuner for my Nvidia cards. :cool:

Ren.182 · 16 Apr 2006 at 23:00

Adjusting the brightness on your desktop wont affect the brightness in game. It's rendered differently.

luckypapyrussam · 17 Apr 2006 at 02:34

Then how do i fix this Ren.182??

Ren.182 · 17 Apr 2006 at 02:35

Is your overlay brightness turned up? (Thanks to psypher for this info)

luckypapyrussam · 17 Apr 2006 at 02:40

hmmm.... overlay, cant say it is cant say it isnt, if your on about in game brightness then no because BF2 wont let me change the brightness, it doesnt have the option

sja360 · 17 Apr 2006 at 03:01

i had a similar problem it was the monitor. i replaced it (xiod 17" crt) with a 22" Mitsubshi CRT that i got from a guy via these forums which sorted these brightness problems out.
are you using a CRT or TFT? and which make/model aswell. it could be a TFT with crap contrast making it hard to see.

luckypapyrussam · 17 Apr 2006 at 04:11

Nah its a CRT Gateway EV700 17", i always thought it was the moniter to be fair, but i thought there might of been a way to fix it, i guess not :S

Anyway ill test my brotheres TFT and my other brotheres tft's he has to see if there is a differance, then i 1. buy a new moniter 2. throw my head into the wall wondering when will the darkness end...

sja360 · 17 Apr 2006 at 05:07

the xiod 17" crt i had was about 4+ years old, i presume the gateway crt is about the same?

tickle me elmo · 17 Apr 2006 at 05:53

use rivatuner and adjust the overlay. works great!!

however if u use an ati card LOL@u, theyre lame and the drivers dont adjust the overlay brightness very well, they might work once, but the 2nd time it wont and needs you to reboot.

luckypapyrussam · 17 Apr 2006 at 23:39

Well i am using a ATI card (9600 pro) and this problem is getting anoying, lets just hope rivatuner you are talking about works

EDIT!!!

Figured out how so solve my problem without getting a new moniter

i downloaded this advanced game gamma correction and this works perfectly, thanks for all your help and anyone who has this problem... Download this

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/downloads/game_gamma_info/

CSS brightness trouble

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