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R8500 dark d3d performance.
Hi, Ive got a radeon 8500 128 in my system and it works fine for what I do. One
thing Ive always noticed is that whenever I played a d3d game or ran 3dmark the picture was always very dark. My other machine has a radeon 32ddr and its not that way. My son had a gf2mx that wasnt that way. I figured it was just some dumb setting on my puter. Well I replaced the gf2mx in my sons computer with another 8500 128 and now he has the same problem. If he plays his games in open gl its fine but d3d is really dark. 3dmark runs really dark too. Is there a reason for this? Ive checked the property tabs for the video settings and nothing I change seems to effect it. Any ideas to solve this one, maybe some registry settings to mess with? George |
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Try going to the Display PropertiesSettingsAdvancedColor tab. Check the
radio button for 'Full Screen 3D'. Now tweak the settings to brighten up the picture. The only problem with this method is that you cannot see what effect your chages will have until you actually run your full screen 3d application (a game etc). Glenn "CARBUFF" wrote in message ... Hi, Ive got a radeon 8500 128 in my system and it works fine for what I do. One thing Ive always noticed is that whenever I played a d3d game or ran 3dmark the picture was always very dark. My other machine has a radeon 32ddr and its not that way. My son had a gf2mx that wasnt that way. I figured it was just some dumb setting on my puter. Well I replaced the gf2mx in my sons computer with another 8500 128 and now he has the same problem. If he plays his games in open gl its fine but d3d is really dark. 3dmark runs really dark too. Is there a reason for this? Ive checked the property tabs for the video settings and nothing I change seems to effect it. Any ideas to solve this one, maybe some registry settings to mess with? George --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.592 / Virus Database: 375 - Release Date: 18/02/2004 |
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Try going to the Display PropertiesSettingsAdvancedColor tab. Check the
radio button for 'Full Screen 3D'. Now tweak the settings to brighten up the picture. The only problem with this method is that you cannot see what effect your chages will have until you actually run your full screen 3d application (a game etc). Glenn "CARBUFF" wrote in message ... Hi, Ive got a radeon 8500 128 in my system and it works fine for what I do. One thing Ive always noticed is that whenever I played a d3d game or ran 3dmark the picture was always very dark. My other machine has a radeon 32ddr and its not that way. My son had a gf2mx that wasnt that way. I figured it was just some dumb setting on my puter. Well I replaced the gf2mx in my sons computer with another 8500 128 and now he has the same problem. If he plays his games in open gl its fine but d3d is really dark. 3dmark runs really dark too. Is there a reason for this? Ive checked the property tabs for the video settings and nothing I change seems to effect it. Any ideas to solve this one, maybe some registry settings to mess with? George --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.592 / Virus Database: 375 - Release Date: 18/02/2004 Hi, yes Ive done this and it has no effect at all. Ive turned up the brightness and the gamma all the way up and my 3dmark full screen is still almost too dark to see. Also I can barely find my way on some counterstrike maps. Of course I can just switch to opengl and all is fine but many games dont offer this. I have a radeon 9000 in another machine using the same drivers and dont have this problem. Any other ideas? George |
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Which catalyst are you using?
I have radeon8500le, and had this problem under 3.7-3.10 but series 4 fixed this. I normally use gamma of 1.45, contrast to 96 and brightness to about +10 or so. Gives me good picture. I know it's too bad to have dark picture, you hardly see everything there is to see. "CARBUFF" wrote in message ... Try going to the Display PropertiesSettingsAdvancedColor tab. Check the radio button for 'Full Screen 3D'. Now tweak the settings to brighten up the picture. The only problem with this method is that you cannot see what effect your chages will have until you actually run your full screen 3d application (a game etc). Glenn "CARBUFF" wrote in message ... Hi, Ive got a radeon 8500 128 in my system and it works fine for what I do. One thing Ive always noticed is that whenever I played a d3d game or ran 3dmark the picture was always very dark. My other machine has a radeon 32ddr and its not that way. My son had a gf2mx that wasnt that way. I figured it was just some dumb setting on my puter. Well I replaced the gf2mx in my sons computer with another 8500 128 and now he has the same problem. If he plays his games in open gl its fine but d3d is really dark. 3dmark runs really dark too. Is there a reason for this? Ive checked the property tabs for the video settings and nothing I change seems to effect it. Any ideas to solve this one, maybe some registry settings to mess with? George --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.592 / Virus Database: 375 - Release Date: 18/02/2004 Hi, yes Ive done this and it has no effect at all. Ive turned up the brightness and the gamma all the way up and my 3dmark full screen is still almost too dark to see. Also I can barely find my way on some counterstrike maps. Of course I can just switch to opengl and all is fine but many games dont offer this. I have a radeon 9000 in another machine using the same drivers and dont have this problem. Any other ideas? George |
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