Gamma problem

[Washoe]

Whenever I quit playing a couple of games - EverQuest2 and Call of Duty - the gamma for my monitor is set very high and usually I end up have to reboot the PC.

Actually this doesn't happen every single time. It happens only like 50-60% of the time after playing EQ2, and maybe 20-30% of the time after playing CoD. I have not noticed it after playing other games (such as Doom3, NOLF2, and Dungeon Siege)

Any suggestions?

System specs:

Athlon 2500 Barton ~1.96GHz
Epox 8rda3+
1G Kingston HyperX PC4000
eVGA 6800 AGP (128MB)
nVidia 71.20 drivers

 

[josepavento]

I had the same thing happen to me, but only with ati cards (9600pro, 9800pro, x800pro), on two different monitors.

Never had this happen with my 6600gt, but it happened all the time with my ati cards. Happens to my roomate too on the 9600pro i gave him.

 

[cbehnken]

seems like a bug in eq2, it happens to me too sometimes, Cat 5.4 helped, but that doesnt' really help you.

 

[Washoe]

Yeah I thought it was EQ2 problem only (the game I mostly play), but then this started happening with Call of Duty as well. I'm not OCing my video card either...

 

[BFG10K]

The first thing you could try is using non-beta drivers.

 

[Mem]

The first thing you could try is using non-beta drivers.

Hmmm happens with the official ATI drivers,what I do is go into ATI control panel click on colour tab (sometimes I have to actually move the brightness setting ie from -85 to 0 then back to -85 again for it to go back to my prefered default setting),it is a pain but the only fix I know.

Always happens to me after 3D gaming,I have to use the colour/brightness adjustment tab since my monitor is too bright for normal desktop display even at 0.

 

[Washoe]

For me I've tried several nvidia drivers - it does not help with this issue. Both beta and the fully qualified ones.

The odd thing is, it does not happen every time. Only around half the time.

 

[xtknight]

It's a problem with the program not calling SetDeviceGammaRamp() on exit, or another program forcing bad gamma settings. Just clicking on the color tab under ATI control panel fixed it for me.