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lagavulin
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Posted: 08-17-2013 03:12 PM

Hello Folks,

some weeks ago (maybe 4-5) everything in q3a got very dark, or black. I'm running quake3 v1.32 (b or c), Fedora 19 (64bit), with the nvidia driver (xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-319.32-7.fc19.x86_64). I'd be grateful if someone has an idea what has gone wrong. It seems it might have something to do with multitextures. Anyone know how to turn them off? Below is a screenshot of how things look, more or less. I have r_gamma set to "2", which makes it possible to sort-of play, even when everything is so dark. The screenshot was almost black, so I increased the levels ot what it looks like for me with my r_gamma setting.

cheers,

Lagavulin

--screenshot--

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obsidian
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Posted: 08-17-2013 04:59 PM

Try backing up and then deleting your .cfg files and let the game recreate defaults and see if that helps.

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lagavulin
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Posted: 08-18-2013 03:57 AM

> Try backing up and then deleting your .cfg files and let the game recreate defaults and see if that helps.

sorry -- I should have mentioned. I've tried that, but no change.

lagavulin

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axbaby
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Posted: 08-19-2013 10:18 PM

check your config for the setting r_ignorehwgamma
set it to 0 or 1 .. and restart

see if that works

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MKJ
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Posted: 08-20-2013 01:24 AM

/vid_restart to speed things up.

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DTS
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Posted: 08-20-2013 10:48 AM

I think it's what Axbaby said, but also check you haven't got an autoexec.cfg adding that r_ignorehwgamma setting.

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lagavulin
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Posted: 08-24-2013 08:36 AM

axbaby wrote:
check your config for the setting r_ignorehwgamma
set it to 0 or 1 .. and restart

see if that works

It was set to 0, I tried changing it to 1 (yes, with vid_restart), but it makes no difference.

cheers,

lagavulin

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SoM
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Posted: 08-24-2013 01:17 PM

does this happen on every map ? maybe you got some bad .pk3

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lagavulin
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Posted: 08-25-2013 06:11 AM

SoM wrote:
does this happen on every map ? maybe you got some bad .pk3

yep, every map.

lagavulin

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SoM
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Posted: 08-25-2013 07:18 AM

have you considered reinstalling without any third party maps or rolling back on the nvidia driver

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Try backing up and then deleting your .cfg files and let the game recreate defaults and see if that helps.

> Try backing up and then deleting your .cfg files and let the game recreate defaults and see if that helps.sorry -- I should have mentioned. I've tried that, but no change.lagavulin

check your config for the setting r_ignorehwgammaset it to 0 or 1 .. and restartsee if that works

/vid_restart to speed things up.

I think it's what Axbaby said, but also check you haven't got an autoexec.cfg adding that r_ignorehwgamma setting.

axbaby wrote:check your config for the setting r_ignorehwgammaset it to 0 or 1 .. and restartsee if that worksIt was set to 0, I tried changing it to 1 (yes, with vid_restart), but it makes no difference.cheers,lagavulin

does this happen on every map ? maybe you got some bad .pk3

SoM wrote:does this happen on every map ? maybe you got some bad .pk3yep, every map.lagavulin

have you considered reinstalling without any third party maps or rolling back on the nvidia driver

> Try backing up and then deleting your .cfg files and let the game recreate defaults and see if that helps.

sorry -- I should have mentioned. I've tried that, but no change.

lagavulin

check your config for the setting r_ignorehwgamma
set it to 0 or 1 .. and restart

see if that works

axbaby wrote:
check your config for the setting r_ignorehwgamma
set it to 0 or 1 .. and restart

see if that works

It was set to 0, I tried changing it to 1 (yes, with vid_restart), but it makes no difference.

cheers,

lagavulin

SoM wrote:
does this happen on every map ? maybe you got some bad .pk3

yep, every map.

lagavulin