Desktop too bright!

[RAZO]

Hello all....just a quick problem to present to you. I own an Visiontek Xtasy 9500Pro 128mb card and I have this problem of my Windows desktop being too bright after exiting any 3d application(game) that I use(Half-Life, Unreal Tournament(TO),RTCW,America's Army, etc.)

I am able to reset the brightness, or rather Windows resets the brightness after I go into my display properties either throught the desktop or through the ATI control panel icon and when I click "advanced" the screen is refereshed to its original brightness...I don't even have to click anything other than the "advanced" tab and "bam" the overbrightness if gone! It does it whether I exit from the game normally or if the game hangs or crashes and I kill it with Task Manager.

I am guessing that when exiting the game, Windows stays with the current brightness level that I had set in the game for I always crank up the gamma in game. I have had this problem with the most recent ATI driver version and the one before it. I use W2k Pro....256mb ram....AMD Thunderbird@950Mhz on a Abit KT-7Raid, my desktop settings are either 16bit or 32 bit@1024x768 and I run games in either 16 or 32bit@800x600 or 1024x768. I am not performing any driver tweaks, hacks or overclocking at this time. The monitor that I am using is a 4 year old Sony HMD-A200. I have also performed a clean OS install since the problem started.

Any help would be appreciated for I game, download and surf alot and having to go into the ATI control panel after every gaming session gets to be annoying.

Have a good one,

RAZO

Also...why do 2 instantances of my card show up in device manager and in the ATI Info Utility?

 

[videoclone]

2 instances
1 Secondary and 1 Primary are just ATI's funny way of having the dual ramdacks as two cards its for dual display either from a second monitor or a TV from your videocard

Nvidia just have the dual videos controlled from there drivers and not from windows so you only get 1 Videocard installed i think the newer ATI cards have just 1 card installed now i'm not sure

anyways about your monitor thing......umm geee thats strange all i can think of is trying out windows XP instead of win2k with the latest ATI drivers .... it sounds like a refresh problem to me your system isnt resetting your videocard after you leave a game and the gamma settings in the game stay once you exit the game.

you could try playing with the AGP Settings in bios. Change it to fast write and up the appenditure size to 128MB?s it also could be your system?s not automatic ?. You have a manual. lol ........ I?m out of ideas good luck 😉:beer:

 

[Viper96720]

It's a ati bug been around for along time. You might want to try setting the gamma in the advanced video properties. Color section have a setting for desktop and fullscreen 3d.