Question about darkness & shadows

[Azureil]

no, mine\'s not like that, i get funny black and gray lines across all the textures with shadows. the game is still playable, but kinda annoying at times. the creatures and people\'s shadows work fine, just not the textures of walls, the ground, steps, stuff like that. it is also fine on the way to the other town, no problems there for some reason. every once in a while i see those things, but i think they\'re from spells.

[erastus]

When I\'m in the death Relm I can\'t even see where I\'m going, there is no path. I can\'t find my way out for ages when I end up there, which happens more than it should because of glitches and a rat randomly kills me

Yikes!

[akaron]

i noticed to, that some textures sometimes (not always) appear pitch-black.

restarting the client sometims helps (for some time)

reinstalling always helps (for some longer time)

since ive had troubles that the installation got screwed up somehow (wouldn\'t let you start the game again, until you reinstall) i guess there must be some bug somewhere which sort of corrupts files in your installdir... (or at least change some parts of the configuration)
 
thats the only explanation why there can be errors (like wrong angles [180 degrees wrong!!] with the 3rd person follow cam) that stay after restarting the game, even after rebooting the whole os.

the interesting questoin about the black textures is, if there are no textures at all... or if they are just shaded to absolute black...

Edited for language.

[frumbert]

Originally posted by Kramy
Yes. Increase the brightness of your monitor a bit. I put mine from 50% up to 75% to be able to see in the sewers.

My monitor is calibrated for photography work. I can\'t change the brightness etc without messing that up. The game (when it actually works) was just as dark if not darker. I run around on glimpses of light and guesswork.

An in game gamma solution would be ideal.

[zenix]

all i can say is stop whineing because lots of us can\'t even play(i think that that is a bigger problem than thngs being dark) you all can actualy see inside the game we can\'t even see the char. creation screen X(

[Aravi]

Xenix, I understand your anger but your post contributes nothing.

If you\'re using the Linux client (probably not, but anyhow), just edit /usr/bin/psclient to add the line

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xgamma -gamma 1.2 before the exec psclient line. Only weakness is you\'ll have to change it back manually.

If you\'re using the Windows client, you may be able to find some other technique to increase gamma for gameplay and reset it to normal later.