Cant play cs cos my screen is way too dark

[old.urbantus]

Just installed cs retail and patch
installed missing maps and weps text
my sys
asus a7v
tbird 1ghz cpu
gladiac gf2 gts
win me
adsl

Ive managed to play de dust ok
but all other maps are very dark
Had an autoexec.cfginstalled in cs folder
when I try to exec it in console it says :
" game_unknown_command#"
Ive tried setting vid in panel in game
but that doesnt work
even loading graphics/piccy is way too dark
Help
me is desperate

 

[granny]

What OS you using?

I ask 'cos I had the same problem with CS for ages using a GF DDR in W2K. Finally a version of NVMax was released that allowed gamma adjustment that actually worked. At the moment I'm using NVMax 1.3 and detonator 6.62 and before I play CS I just whack the gamma up a few notches in NVMax. Oh, this is playing in OpenGL rendering too btw. Dunno about D3D cos I don't use it cos smoke lags my D3D renderer like hell.

/GrannY

 

[old.pow1983]

Which Drivers are you using??? Nvidia's or the ones that came with the PC? I highly recommend the latest Detonator drivers from, http://www.nvidia.com

I am assuming you have found the 'Video setup' in the game settings and changed Gamma etc. Also try using Open GL, it works better on my Win2k dont ask why!!
I have the old GeForce 256, but mine works a treat.

If that doesnt work try the Tweak settings that comes with the Detonator Drivers, 'Right Click' in Desktop, 'Click Properties' to view display properties, then 'click settings tab', then 'click Advanced button' then tweak the settings in there. I will give better Instructions when I get home.

 

[old.Ned]

also make sure that gl_max_size is set to 512 and not 256

 

[*Kornholio*]

Originally posted by Ned
also make sure that gl_max_size is set to 512 and not 256

That's got nothing to do with the brightness / darkness, just the clearness of the graphics, but well worth doing none the less

 

[old.Kurt_Angle]

Just go into the properties of the Card and turn the brightness, gamma up. My old monitor required me to do this with nearly every game, when i first got a geforce card.

 

[Ch3tan]

Ok do these things in this order:

1)Get the latest official detonator drivers (thats 6.50) or teh best beta ones (7.52). DO a clean install, this is important, make sure no trace of your previous drivers on your system before a reinstall.

2)Monitor driverS!!!! Okay lates versions of windows have colour managemnet profiles for most monitors, having a monitor profile will adjust the colour settings for you and solves most problems like this.

3) If your monitor driver dont fix it, then use teh detonator 3 colour managemnet and save the profile as games or CS, so you can load teh optimal settings each time.

4)As for your problems with unkown command, I assume you have pushlatency -x somehwere in your autoexec.cfg? Well you can no longer adjust pushlatency in game so you have to move it into you config.cfg as -and this is important - pushlatencey "-x" MUSt, MUST,MUST have the quotes. If you still get the errorr they may be other commands in your autoexec.cfg that have changed since 1.0 your going to have to systematically test them.

 

[old.Anatoly]

Ch3tan how did you find out about the pushlatency command?

People over at cs.net were moaning it had been removed .

The CS tweak uguide linked to on BW news still includes it.

Is there anywhere that tells you all the commands that have changed/been added, is it just in a readme in cstrike folder?

I'd like to to clear out/update any of the commands in my autoexec that have changed

Thx

 

[old.urbantus]

nice work peeps

just what I needed

 

[Ch3tan]

Okay I talked to a bloke who did the tweak guide for Cs over at 3dspotlight, he said pushlatency was still in game.

type /cvarlist in console
then type condump "cvarlists.txt"

this will dump all available commands into a text file in your HL or Cs directory. pushlatencey is still in there. i did some experimenting it works only from your config.cfg, which you need to make read only or HL will take it out again. I have posted this numerous times on cs.net they ignore me or just complain that it dont work in there autoexec.cfg, as i just told them it would not.

So to summerise to use pushlatency it must be in your cs/Hl/tfc config.cfg in the form pushlatency "-x" you must use the quotes or it wont work. You can no longer use pushlatency from the console, or from any other .cfg including autoexec.cfg

Now you may all bow to your king the cOw, Ch3tan. Especially you silk|away your still my bitch wrong boy.

 

[old.Anatoly]

Thanks Ch3tan
So what have they done, made pushlatency automatic by default?
Seems stupid to leave it in but not let you actually set it in the console

Anyway I'll give it a go when I get home from work.

 

[Ch3tan]

Oh yeah bit of cock up here really, I just did the cvarlist thing personally and puchlatency was not there. Previously I had taken the fact it was there on the word of someone else (the bloke that did the Cs tweak guide at 3dspotlight).

okay stupid of me, but bottom line is pushlatency really aint there. i did find the command cl_latency though if anyone can tell me what that is for. sorry guys iwish pushlatency really was still there.