Total darkness in Doom 3

Adrian Wong · 28th Jun 2005, 11:43 PM

Hello everyone!

I'm having some problems running Doom 3 with the NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200.

For some reason, the game loads up normally but I can't see anything. It's in total darkness.

Any idea why?

Just FYI, I'm using the latest 77.72 driver from NVIDIA.

Thanks!

zy · 28th Jun 2005, 11:48 PM

wow .. boss wanna play doom 3 ..

did you set monitor brightness to soemthing brigther .. hhehehe

Adrian Wong · 29th Jun 2005, 12:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zy

wow .. boss wanna play doom 3 ..

did you set monitor brightness to soemthing brigther .. hhehehe

LOL! I'm already playing it on the notebook.

It's not a monitor problem. I turned the Brightness level to maximum as well as the monitor's brightness. Still total darkness.

But I can see certain things... like displays off LCD panels in the game. Or the door panels.

Bestia(ry) · 29th Jun 2005, 12:16 AM

Downgrade to 66.93 and try again.

peaz · 29th Jun 2005, 12:44 AM

Probably the gamma settings needing tweaking

Papercut · 29th Jun 2005, 12:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

For some reason, the game loads up normally but I can't see anything. It's in total darkness.

Get used to it - that's how most of the game is!

Adrian Wong · 29th Jun 2005, 12:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bestia

Downgrade to 66.93 and try again.

Actually, I just upgraded from some 6x.xx driver. It didn't work with the 6x.xx driver and it didn't work with the new 77.72 driver either.

Bestia(ry) · 29th Jun 2005, 12:59 AM

It's not 'bout "some" 6x.xx (there are 11 different 66.xx-revs), you should (!) try 66.93, if you didn't do so already. ^^

GarPhreak · 29th Jun 2005, 01:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Papercut

Get used to it - that's how most of the game is!

That's a good point!

That's where the flashlight comes in...

Viper007Bond · 29th Jun 2005, 03:58 AM

Turn up the brightness in the game's video options.

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