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I'm using an ATI Radeon 9200 (with catalyst 5.sumfin drivers). It was working pretty good at first until i found the gamma/brightness/colour adjustments in the display menu and couldn't resist. I've since reset them to the default values and this is where it get's weird.

When i boot up, the desktop (win xp) comes up much brighter than normal. If i run a program, like morrowind for example, the screen darkens a little bit. During a game of morrowind, i almost have to manually change the gamma settings to compensate brightness when going indoors or outside. ie. the exterior locations are much too bright and the interiors are too dark. It's certainly vastly different to what i'm used to and it's pi$$ing me off.

When i go back to desktop after closing a program, the screen is reset to a much darker gamma setting (ie. the normally brown background of IW appears pitch black!) even though the controls are the same as they were on boot up.

Any corrections i try to make don't seem to have any effect and i certainly don't want to make it worse. Anyone think of something i'm missing (short of reinstalling)?