TheJkWhoSaysNi Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Whenever I exit KotOR2 my desktop will be incredibly bright. Usually games will reset it. KotOR2 does not. Any ideas how to fix it? Rebooting windows appears to be the only way to get the brightness back how it was. I'm running WinXP SP2 with a Radeon 9800 pro if it helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leviathan Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 When you're on the Windows's desktop, launch SW : KotOR II and then, close it using appropriate buttons... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheJkWhoSaysNi Posted February 16, 2005 Author Share Posted February 16, 2005 Nope Whenever I exit from Kotor2 the desktop is much brighter than it was. I *could* set the in-game brightness so it's the same as the desktop but that makes it too dark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwegapa Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 The gamma issue is a known one. It seems to mostly affect ATI users but not all of them. I don't know of a proper fix yet, but I've contacted the head of ATI's driver department and he's looking into issues with the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leviathan Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 Open the Windows's Task Manager ([CTRL]+[ALT]+[DEL]), then the "Processes" mitre and try to find some "suspect" processes, like "swkotor2.exe". If it's the case, select the correct line and press the "Finish process" button. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markussun Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 TheJkWhoSaysNi, when that happens to me (with a few games) I simply open my nVidia Display Properties Control Panel, and it automatically resets the gamma settings I previously configured (acts like an initialisation). Since you have an ATI card, I don't know if the same procedure would work for you, but it's worth a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j3di_sean Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 Same problem here. I'm using a Ati Card. What i'll do is open the catalyst menu. Change the settings a little and bring it back to your original setting. The purpose is to enable the "apply" button. Press "Apply" and your desktop brightness should be back to normal. Hope it helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flamehart Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 I'm having a similar problem.. I try to raise the brightness settings in KOTOR2 and the ingame screen becomes much brighter, like I need it to be, however, it does not save that setting, and usually between intermissions, loading screens, or alt-tabbing, itll go to my "desktop setting" and be extremely dark. I can't get it to save itself at the high brightness settings and is making it frustrating to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingerhs Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 there's a line in the swkotor2.ini file that controls the brightness. try adjusting that and see if it helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flamehart Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 Did, like usual the game starts up using desktop setting. If I move the brightness bar the game will brighten up, but during cinematics or during alt tabbing, and loading screens sometimes, it goes back to desktop brightness (really dark). I've tried raising the brightness and such by going to my desktop, right click, properties, then going to advanced and changing the Color setting for my ATI Radeon 9500 Pro, but it doesnt seem to want to save my settings -after- I launch KOTOR2. It's very frustrating, and on top of that, KOTOR2 tells me that my card does not meet the "reccomended" settings, however the "reccomended" settings say reccomended is a ATI Radeon 9200 or higher. I've been having that problem since KOTOR1 but KOTOR1 never had any brightness issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapedCrusader Posted March 27, 2005 Share Posted March 27, 2005 I have this same problem with an Nvidia card. Its kind of frustating having to open up the display properties everytime I exit the game. Adjusting the ini file doesn't help because then the game is too dark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flamehart Posted March 29, 2005 Share Posted March 29, 2005 I think its a monitor problem but there's nothing I can do about it because the wheel on the bottom of my Dell monitor is broken, and I'm too cheap to go buy a new monitor. 19" is too expensive nowadays :-P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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