All my games are too dark

[hypnos_ric]

Hi,
I've recently bought a new graphics card: Hercules 3D Prophet II Titanium. The card has good reviews and is a big improvement on my previous Voodoo 3 3500. The trouble is that all of my games are far too dark In each individual game I've set the gamma setting to full but this hardly makes a difference. I could just turn the brightness on my monitor up ever time I play a game but I play (well...would like to) a lot of games so this would be quite annoying. I have the latest drivers for the card. In the cards options there is no place to increase the gamma for OpenGL and DirectX applications. With my old Voodoo there was a place to increase gamma which I wish I had for my current graphics card.

I don't think it matters but I have:

866 PIII
512MB RAM
Windows XP

This problem isn't related to simply one style of game. My first person games and top down view games are all the same (way too dark ). I've also downloaded a geforce tweaker to see if that would help me but unfortunately it didn't.

I write here because Hercules don't seem to want to help me (they could have at least replied to my emails ).

Thank you for any help.

[DragonNOA1]

i used to have the same problem. my tnt was too dark. i thought it worked fine until i got a geforce 2 that i noticed i could see everything much better. i didn't change any settings, i just added a new card and poof, brightness!. now in your case you already have a more recent card so i don't know what you can change other than saving your gamma settings in your display tab.

[hypnos_ric]

sounds goood but there is no gamma setting in my display tab

[southrk]

You wouldnt happen to be using a Hewlett packard M50 or M75 monitor are you? I had one of each, after about a 2 years each one went dark. Enough so i could see the desktop, but when i played a game it would do the same thing.

[morriswindgate]

Know anybody who owns a computer with an msi motherboard? If so borrow their driver disk as it has a utility on it that allows you to setup the color and gamma for games.

[hypnos_ric]

I don't know anybody with an msi botherboard. Maybe the software you're talking about is 3Deep? Well if it is, I got that with my graphics card but it doesn't seem to work. I've tried all the drivers I can find and different desktop resolutions etc but nothing seems to be working. My games are still far to dark Anymore suggestions?

cheers.