When I’m in the middle of a game and someone signs on on either MSN or AIM and the little notification popup appears when it fades out, the whole of ET goes from 2.0 brigtness to around 0.5 but I can’t set it lighter without restarting the game, does anyone else get this? the only way I can make it not happen at the moment is to take off the pop ups but it means I don’t know when people sign in or out… specs-
Athlon64 3200+
Radeon 9800XT
768MB DDR
Win XP Corp
ASUS K8V Deluxe
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Hey fusen.
This is not something i know for sure, and the explanation of the vars may not be 100% right 
…but worth checking out
I dont know a “fix” to this…but i think whats happening is that the external gamma is getting disabled when it happens.
What u can do is disable the external gamma by default…and reset ur graphics settings (vars) to that setting… because, as u noticed, theres a big differnce.
Ive been playing with this setup for a while, to avoid getting a very bright windows desktop if the game crashes.
try:
r_ignorehwgamma 1 <-- this will disable/ignore the external gamma
r_gamma 2 <-- over all light, dunno PB limit
r_intensity 1.5 <-- normally maxed to 1.5 PB
r_mapoverbrightbits 2 <-- normally maxed to 2 by PB
r_overBrightBits 1 <-- adss some brightness PB limit 1 (i think)
Another thing u can do to adjust your visuals in game…is using the omega drivers…or Rage3d tweak feature…that externally sets gamma/contrast/brighness (and is not disabled by ignoreHWgamma, but r_ext_gamma_control,… i beleive)
My friend has a very similar problem only when his MSN pops up, he said his ET gets really bright. Sorry I don’t have any suggestions on how to fix it but I wanted to let you know there are similar problems. Personally, I have MSN usually running and my brightness isn’t affected when someone signs in or when I get any message pop ups(however, I play on a laptop so maybe that has something to do with it).
I don’t have any problem when I get MSN popups. My suggestion is to SIGN THE FUCK OUT. Do you want interruptions while you play?
in preference u can turn popups off
et does not like to get interrupted like that, in fact, no game likes it.
ya I already have turned pop ups off and I know I should really just close them all but I like being on all the time so if someone needs me they cna leave a message… and it never happened with my old graphics card just now got a 9800XT started happening… also I’ll give ya settings a try squardjot thanks =D
Hey Fusen I get that problem but for a different reason.
When MSN pops up it is ok and not a problem for me, but to stay online yet not be annoyed by MSN, I set my status to bust when playing, I don’t seem to get pop ups then.
My problem is that when i lower my volume level by keyboard rather than master volume i get ur MSN brightness problem. Just set your MSN to busy , should sort it out for you…as for me, guess I’m F’d.
MSN sucks far beyond the point of normal microsoft suckage.
They can’t even integrate their own programs in a decent way so it doesn’t interfere with everything.
I’ve seen MSN used as a wallhack, used as a crosshair in cs with weapons without crosshair, I’ve seen it crash dozens of different games…
PB should detect MSN as an external program interfering with the game aka cheat.
MSN sucks far beyond the point of normal microsoft suckage.
They can’t even integrate their own programs in a decent way so it doesn’t interfere with everything.I’ve seen MSN used as a wallhack, used as a crosshair in cs with weapons without crosshair, I’ve seen it crash dozens of different games…
PB should detect MSN as an external program interfering with the game aka cheat.
LMAO, msn as a wallhack ? Are u paranoid by any chance ?
Nah Sickboys about right - M$ suck big style - avoid anything of theirs until it’s at least version 3 or higher.
What’s wrong with IRC btw - 'fraid you’ll miss your emoticons? 
Yeah with radeon cards this is possible in a couple of games, when the popup pops up you can see through stuff. But then, pb should kick for radeon cards too :ironic:
I can easily use MSN as a wallhack in RtCW. In fact, all I have to do is minimize RtCW and re-open it and I can see players through walls. Luckily for you I stick to ET.
For me it’s not just MSN Messenger that does this to ET (yet no other games I’ve noticed so far).
Yahoo Messenger and Trillian also do the ‘see-thru walls for 5 seconds then complete darkness before you get shot’ bug whenever the little pop-up appears.
Windows Messenger doesn’t do it though, so stick with that, at least while you’re playing ET. You get a flickering pop-up over your screen while playing but it’s only for a ocupel seconds and you don’t get the darkness afterwards.
Or you could run ET in a window, just below the resolution of your desktop. This is probably the best solution, since if you’re full-screen then you can’t chat to people on MSN Messneger anyway so there’s no point having it running is there?
maybe its something with the cards i have the 9800 pro(not the xt) and i have the same problam its so friking annoying…I dont have to restart ET i just go to option and calibrate the brightness…
Havent got the time to read, but MSN popups also functions as a wallhack. lol. goes to bed gg
Does it with GF cards too. Depends on your drivers, when a MSN popup appears it can indeed make your walls see through :> I myself aint effected as popups aint enabled and I dont MSN as much anymore but a fellow lsr had it. (it was dante. Ice-T) Dont know about AIM… dont want to.
Small popups and other things can make the in game gamma to go back to the one you has out in windows, which is much darker.
Well, its clear to me that only Radeon cards have this problem, I have a Geforce 4200Ti and that doesnt have the problem that i do have with my Radeon 9800Pro. Maybe r_ignorehwgamma 1 helps, i will try that, but for now i just type in console r_gamma 1 and then r_gamma 2, offcourse you can also make a small script for that and bind it to a key.