[?] Tweaking Environment Files

sabretwo · 02-24-10, 11:52 PM

I recently purchased a new laptop, Sony Vaio (ATI Mobility Radeon) running Windows 7. The color on all of my apps looks great, but when running in-game in Sh3 everything is a tad too much green. (Yes, I've played with the color profiles, but I abandoned it for fear of screwing up the color on all of my other stuff.)

I can handle the slight green tint on the GUI and daytime colors look acceptable (running OLC Gold and SH5 Water for Med), but in evening and night the colors look awful...way too green and mucky as a result (a little too bright as well). On my last laptop, the OLC environment looked fantastic! Just perfect. I only recently added the SH5 Water owing to the more realistic waves and greener Mediterranean water. Regardless of whether I run OLC alone or with the Sh5 Water mod, everything at night looks horrendous.

When I had an Nvidia card, playing with display colors was easy using nHancer. With this new ATI Mobility Radeon, not so much. As an experiment, I'd like to try tweaking the environment colors to match the idiosynchracies of my laptop's display but I am not sure which files I need to be editing. I looked in the .DAT files with Sh3Editor but it wasn't very obvious which files and strings I need to be experimenting with.

Any advice is greatly appreciated. If this has been addressed in a tutorial or another thread somewhere, please point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance!

ReallyDedPoet · 02-25-10, 08:23 AM

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sabretwo · 02-25-10, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by reallydedpoet

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Thanks. No bites yet, but hopefully someone will chime in on this.

DivingDuck · 02-26-10, 05:50 AM

Moin sabretwo,

don´t worry about your choice pro ATI. I´m planning to switch back to ATI on my next purchase. My old laptop was working an ATI MobilityRadeon too. The newer one features a Nvidia card that totally p*ssed me off. I faintly remember a programme to tweak all settings. IIRC it´s name was 'ATI Catalyst Control Center'. But I don´t know whether it´s available for Win7 or not. You might want to check 'RivaTuner' as well. But again no clue re Win7 compatibility.

Good luck,
DD

sabretwo · 02-26-10, 07:43 AM

l tried the ATI Catalyst program that came installed on the laptop. The normal version that comes with ATI cards apparently has color adjustments. The one for the Vaio/Win 7 doesn't (has all the other features, just no color adjustment).

I'm hoping to find a newer set of drivers that maybe fixes this. The problem is only with SH3. I'm wondering if its a Directx 9 issue under ATI's Windows 7 drivers.

02-24-10, 11:52 PM	#1
sabretwo Frogman Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 295 Downloads: 69 Uploads: 0	[?] Tweaking Environment Files I recently purchased a new laptop, Sony Vaio (ATI Mobility Radeon) running Windows 7. The color on all of my apps looks great, but when running in-game in Sh3 everything is a tad too much green. (Yes, I've played with the color profiles, but I abandoned it for fear of screwing up the color on all of my other stuff.) I can handle the slight green tint on the GUI and daytime colors look acceptable (running OLC Gold and SH5 Water for Med), but in evening and night the colors look awful...way too green and mucky as a result (a little too bright as well). On my last laptop, the OLC environment looked fantastic! Just perfect. I only recently added the SH5 Water owing to the more realistic waves and greener Mediterranean water. Regardless of whether I run OLC alone or with the Sh5 Water mod, everything at night looks horrendous. When I had an Nvidia card, playing with display colors was easy using nHancer. With this new ATI Mobility Radeon, not so much. As an experiment, I'd like to try tweaking the environment colors to match the idiosynchracies of my laptop's display but I am not sure which files I need to be editing. I looked in the .DAT files with Sh3Editor but it wasn't very obvious which files and strings I need to be experimenting with. Any advice is greatly appreciated. If this has been addressed in a tutorial or another thread somewhere, please point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance! Last edited by sabretwo; 02-25-10 at 12:07 AM.

02-25-10, 08:23 AM	#2
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02-26-10, 05:50 AM	#4
DivingDuck Grey Wolf Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Germany Posts: 902 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 1	Moin sabretwo, don´t worry about your choice pro ATI. I´m planning to switch back to ATI on my next purchase. My old laptop was working an ATI MobilityRadeon too. The newer one features a Nvidia card that totally p*ssed me off. I faintly remember a programme to tweak all settings. IIRC it´s name was 'ATI Catalyst Control Center'. But I don´t know whether it´s available for Win7 or not. You might want to check 'RivaTuner' as well. But again no clue re Win7 compatibility. Good luck, DD __________________ http://www.filefront.com/user/DivingDuck \| OpenHatch_V3_RH (SHIII)

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02-26-10, 07:43 AM	#5
sabretwo Frogman Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 295 Downloads: 69 Uploads: 0	l tried the ATI Catalyst program that came installed on the laptop. The normal version that comes with ATI cards apparently has color adjustments. The one for the Vaio/Win 7 doesn't (has all the other features, just no color adjustment). I'm hoping to find a newer set of drivers that maybe fixes this. The problem is only with SH3. I'm wondering if its a Directx 9 issue under ATI's Windows 7 drivers.