Life in 3d is too dark...

Xtro

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Hola :)

First the problem - everything is bloody DARK!

When I try to play games or watch video in winamp, windows media player etc, everything is just extremely dark and its pissing me off. I've tried updating the drivers for the 3d card but no joy.

Example - I start up World of Warcraft and immediately as its preparing to launch I see the desktop go dark. Then the game starts and its far too dark.

If a game has inbuilt options to raise the gamma/brightness then sometimes it can help obviously but even at max its still too dark sometimes.

As for watching any video - forget it.

Here's my card and drivers:

3d card - Sapphire Radeon x600 Pro
Drivers - ATI Catalyst 6.11 (Released 15th Nov 06)

I've tried using the settings in the Catalyst Control centre but it doesn't fix the problem.

Any ideas? Really p1ssing me off now.
 

ECA

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Are you using an LCD? Some cheaper LCDs suck at displaying blacks and do it way too dark.
 

Ch3tan

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Have you got the drivers for your monitor with the colour profiles?
 

Xtro

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ECA - no mate its an old hefty CRT

Chilly - already done that, but as soon as I launch an app or vid it seems to ignore the settings.

Ch3t - was going to try what you said but...

Clown - THANKS! It work0rz :)

Thanks a lot guys, much appreciated :)
 

Yaka

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adjust the overlay settings, and why use wmp and winamp for watchign stuff? dl vlc and mpc much better and stable progs.

i always used to have this prob when i used to have an ati card
 

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