9500Pro, and Q2

[CurtCold]

I'm running some of my old games, and q2 is really dark. Looks great but I have the brightness on my monitor set all the way up, and in the game as well. Is there any other way to make the game brighter?

I know it's probably something simple, same thing happened with my 8500, but I cannot remember how I fixed it.

Thanks in advance

 

[chizow]

There should be a game gamma adjuster in your CP? There is for my 9700pro, its under colors or color management, its a button you need to click on to bring up the game gamma settings. Readjust your monitor settings and go from the CP.

Chiz

 

[CurtCold]

Thanks man! That was it Game Gamma.

Preciate it Chizow

 

[oldfart]

Q2 takes a lot of tweaking in the config.cfg or autoexec.cfg file. I havent messed with good ole Q2 in awhile but try this. Set up a text file named autoexec.cfg and put it in your baseq2 directory. Put the below in that file. You may need to tweak the settings to your likeing. It depends on video card, monitor, personal preference. There are other settings that will max out the image quality. You will see a difference. These settings are not available via the menu.

set s_mixahead ".14"
set cl_predict "1"
set cl_maxfps "99"
// lower above cl_maxfps for net play if you have connection problems during gameplay
set cl_particles "1"
set gl_dynamic "1"
set gl_polyblend "0"
set gl_playermip "0"
set gl_flashblend "0"
set gl_ext_swapinterval "1"
set gl_swapinterval "1"
set gl_ztrick "1"
set cd_nocd "1"
set in_mouse "1"
set m_filter "1"
set rate "6000"
//rate setting is for online gaming. Setting depends on you internet connection speed
set in_joystick "0"
set gl_ext_palettedtexture "0"
set gl_picmip "0"
set gl_bitdepth "0"
set gl_round_down "0"
set gl_modulate "3"
//gl_modulate controls brightness of shadowed areas. Higher is brighter. default is 1
set intensity "2.5"
//intensity is overall brightness
set vid_gamma "0.600000"
//gamma is brightness
set gl_triplebuffer "1"
set gl_texturemode GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR
//this sets trilinear filtering