Too Much Lighting Effect?

I'm playing Tomb Raider Anniv on a D2C system with an X1950XT. The lighting
effect is too intense and radical. Bright places look too bright and dark
places too dark. I had this issue when playing Prince of Persia Two Thrones
with an X1900GT and was told that because the game was optimized for nVidia
cards, Radeon cards couldn't handle lighting effects properly.

TRA is optimized for nVidia, too. My Q is, "Is there any way to reduce the
intensity of lighting effects using some kind of 3rd party tools?"

FKS wrote:
> I'm playing Tomb Raider Anniv on a D2C system with an X1950XT. The lighting
> effect is too intense and radical. Bright places look too bright and dark
> places too dark. I had this issue when playing Prince of Persia Two Thrones
> with an X1900GT and was told that because the game was optimized for nVidia
> cards, Radeon cards couldn't handle lighting effects properly.
>
> TRA is optimized for nVidia, too. My Q is, "Is there any way to reduce the
> intensity of lighting effects using some kind of 3rd party tools?"
>
>

I take it you've taken all the steps you can on your own? Most games
allow a considerable number of tweaks in the graphics area. The first
one that comes to mind is adjustment of the gamma and, if necessary,
some tweaking of the monitor's brightness and contrast.

--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com

Have you tried playing with the gamma, brightness and contrast settings for
"Fullscreen 3d" in Catalyst Control Center?

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."


"FKS" <fks@fks.com> wrote in message news:AOm7i.206$Cz3.83@newsfe12.lga...
> I'm playing Tomb Raider Anniv on a D2C system with an X1950XT. The
> lighting effect is too intense and radical. Bright places look too bright
> and dark places too dark. I had this issue when playing Prince of Persia
> Two Thrones with an X1900GT and was told that because the game was
> optimized for nVidia cards, Radeon cards couldn't handle lighting effects
> properly.
>
> TRA is optimized for nVidia, too. My Q is, "Is there any way to reduce the
> intensity of lighting effects using some kind of 3rd party tools?"
>

"John McGaw" <nobody@nowh.ere> wrote in message
news:Kpn7i.16569$px2.8428@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
> FKS wrote:
>> I'm playing Tomb Raider Anniv on a D2C system with an X1950XT. The
>> lighting effect is too intense and radical. Bright places look too bright
>> and dark places too dark. I had this issue when playing Prince of Persia
>> Two Thrones with an X1900GT and was told that because the game was
>> optimized for nVidia cards, Radeon cards couldn't handle lighting effects
>> properly.
>>
>> TRA is optimized for nVidia, too. My Q is, "Is there any way to reduce
>> the intensity of lighting effects using some kind of 3rd party tools?"
>
> I take it you've taken all the steps you can on your own? Most games allow
> a considerable number of tweaks in the graphics area. The first one that
> comes to mind is adjustment of the gamma and, if necessary, some tweaking
> of the monitor's brightness and contrast.
>

I'm not talking about a general level of brightness/darkness, of course. In
TRA, a light source makes nearby objects/areas *unrealistically* too bright.
For instance, a small fire place seems as bright as the burning sun in a
desert. I don't have the same problem with other games (oblivion, call of
duty, etc).

"First of One" <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:9cGdnciDfasBlcPbnZ2dnUVZ_s2vnZ2d@giganews.com...
> Have you tried playing with the gamma, brightness and contrast settings
> for "Fullscreen 3d" in Catalyst Control Center?
>
> --
I don't have issues with other games....currently only with TRA. So, I guess
that the game developer(s) just used nVidia cards as a reference.

Does TRA give you the option of turning off HDR?

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."


"FKS" <fks@fks.com> wrote in message news:5fq7i.5040$rF.3894@newsfe12.lga...
>
> "First of One" <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
> news:9cGdnciDfasBlcPbnZ2dnUVZ_s2vnZ2d@giganews.com...
>> Have you tried playing with the gamma, brightness and contrast settings
>> for "Fullscreen 3d" in Catalyst Control Center?
>>
>> --
> I don't have issues with other games....currently only with TRA. So, I
> guess that the game developer(s) just used nVidia cards as a reference.
>

"First of One" <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:MZmdnY8Wz-P-zMPbnZ2dnUVZ_rOqnZ2d@giganews.com...
> Does TRA give you the option of turning off HDR?
>

No. Anyway, TRA isn't entertaining enough for me right now. So, I'll just
use my time playing Resident Evil 4.