To fix brightness, just run Mafia 1 ??

analogoldguy · 02-04-11, 06:47 PM

Hello to all. This is my first message here in Subsim. Seems like a great place!

I recently purchased the two disk Silent Hunter II/III put out by Encore. A really a great game! (SH3 that is). I didn't install SH2. The general brightness seemed kind of dim and dreary, and did not match the colors seen in the Tutorials run on Media Player.

No gamma, brightness, or contrast setting on my Catalyst 7.7 can bring up the brighter colors. Yet one night, after playing Mafia 1 for a while, I ran SH3 and there, like magic, were the beautiful, proper colors of the game. Great happiness!

So, life is wonderful if I boot up Mafia 1 first, and just get it to the profile screen and quit the program! Does anyone have an idea of what's happening here? I am on XP Pro, ATI 800 XT (AGP card). It is a very solid computer on all my games including fairly "newer ones" like Far Cry and World in Conflict.

Thanks. Bob P.

02-04-11, 06:47 PM	#1
analogoldguy Watch Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Massachusetts USA Posts: 22 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	To fix brightness, just run Mafia 1 ?? Hello to all. This is my first message here in Subsim. Seems like a great place! I recently purchased the two disk Silent Hunter II/III put out by Encore. A really a great game! (SH3 that is). I didn't install SH2. The general brightness seemed kind of dim and dreary, and did not match the colors seen in the Tutorials run on Media Player. No gamma, brightness, or contrast setting on my Catalyst 7.7 can bring up the brighter colors. Yet one night, after playing Mafia 1 for a while, I ran SH3 and there, like magic, were the beautiful, proper colors of the game. Great happiness! So, life is wonderful if I boot up Mafia 1 first, and just get it to the profile screen and quit the program! Does anyone have an idea of what's happening here? I am on XP Pro, ATI 800 XT (AGP card). It is a very solid computer on all my games including fairly "newer ones" like Far Cry and World in Conflict. Thanks. Bob P.