I've made my way to the swamp. I noticed from the start that the game was pretty dark and I struggled a little in the treetops hoping that the next section would improve, but I'm not sure I'll be able to go any further if I can't brighten things up some. If I look straight down I can make out the bricks in the road, but if I look up it's total blackness. I've got my moniter settings as bright as possible and the gamma in game options to max. Using the most powerful light spell possible (which doesn't really seem to do much) Using the DX7 setting to play If anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate it [img]smile.gif[/img]

On the screen where you can LOAD your games from, there's something in there for VIDEO. Right in there, you can adjust the contrast. It should help. (Doing this by memory, so sorry if it's vague) [img]smile.gif[/img]

I can't help you on the technical side, mine is doing fine with the game settings, but I've found with some games when I just can't see like I want to, the only solution is to play in a darkened room - even no lights at all.

Kinda makes day play difficult though, unless you have some dark curtains.
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same. my screen has been fine in the swamp area.

Do you have the full powered light spell?

That's what I had last time I got that far.

I had the exact same problem with my Syncmaster. It wasn't the game (well sorta) it was my monitor. I gave it a good whack on the side, and bingo, I could see again. I sometimes have to blow some canned air into the back to brighten things up. I'm not sure how, but this only happens when I play wizardry. Really wierd.
If you exit out to the desktop, is it darker there as well?

Aye, good point about the LIGHT spell as well.

~~hobbesy~~

since you said you had tried almost everything that's been suggested, how about changing from DX7 to OpenGL or Software Rendering?

using Software Rendering usually takes care of that kind of problem. let us know what happens!

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Wow... so ya tried all of that and still no go?

Do other games that use DX7 work fine? I have never heard of it being so dark ya could hardly make out what's going on?!

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yah! i have seen this problem cropping up more than you would think on tech support sites for newly released games in the last half a year or so.
myst3, por2, arcanum are just a few of the most recent ones...

(of course, ubisoft tech support is horrible, as it's monitored by mail bots and i think you have to be a close friend of god to get to even lvl 2 tech with them! :rolleyes:

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I've noticed in my own game that whenever I load a saved game it is always darker than it should be...not too dark to see most times but I've learned to adjust the gamma (in "options~video) to the darkest setting whenever it is light enough to deal with so that I can adjust it to a brighter level when need be...at one point I had it set as bright as it could be and the game was still dark.

I don't understand how it could be such a progressive and sometimes seemingly random problem since when I started the game with the default settings, it looked fine.

Maybe a defrag of my hard drive is in order? I know its been a while and I need to study for a final tomorrow so defragging will for sure keep me away from my PC today LOL!