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No change when trying to change gamma lavel
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Solved: 8 Years, 3 Weeks ago No change when trying to change gamma lavel

Hi

I have tried to change the gamma level to make the grey box almost not visible. But when I change the gamma value I see no change whatsoever. This applies to Amnesia and all the Penumbria games.

I'm using the fglrx driver for Ati HD 4870 in Xorg (Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit). I also run xcalib at boot to calibrate the screen and this works. Does the xcalib prevent the the gamma change in the game? Anybody experiencing the same problems? I don't know if it is driver problem, setup problem or the games have some problems.

Any hints much appreciated.
09-13-2010, 01:33 PM
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Solved: 8 Years, 3 Weeks ago RE: No change when trying to change gamma lavel

It seems as though the ATI drivers do not support gamma changes via the SDL_SetGamma call, which performs an XF86VidModeSetGamma in X11.

I see the same issue on my ATI HD 3000 card as well, but not on my Nvidia 7300.

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09-13-2010, 02:40 PM
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Solved: 8 Years, 3 Weeks ago RE: No change when trying to change gamma lavel

(09-13-2010, 02:40 PM)Urkle Wrote: It seems as though the ATI drivers do not support gamma changes via the SDL_SetGamma call, which performs an XF86VidModeSetGamma in X11.

I see the same issue on my ATI HD 3000 card as well, but not on my Nvidia 7300.

Yes, seems gamma changes are not possible in game. I solved the problem by a small script:
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#!/bin/sh

xgamma -gamma 0.7
./Amnesia.bin64
xgamma -gamma 1.0
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(from memory)

Running this starts amnesia with the gamma level that works best for me. This also solved the ugly shadow effects I got due to that the gamma was too high.
09-14-2010, 10:59 AM
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