Gamma/brightness increases across all monitors when entering games, any fix for this?

Nebben

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Whenever I run a 3D game, the gamma settings within that game also affect the other monitor. Hence, when I'm playing Quake 3, for example, my other monitor is INCREDIBLY BRIGHT. It's blinding to my eyes. My only current fix is to disable my other monitor when gaming, but is there any way to make that monitor independent as far as brightness/gamma?

This happens when I run another monitor off my main card (6600GT) and also when I run it with a totally different card using totally different drivers.

If anyone even has a guess as to a fix for this, please guess :)

I have a hunch that there's a way to override the in-game brightness settings of these games and make them use the normal ones being used while within Windows. Then I'd need to find a fix for the fact that the game is too dark... but maybe there would be a way.