On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Perhaps a Princess... wrote:

>
> >Hmmm I do not think the recently deceased Human who is bumping
> >around in the
> >dark would agree with you here... Also people with dark video equipment
> >(graphics card and/or monitor) find this useful as well.
>
> YES!
> Like me? :)
> In some places, the surrounding is as dark for my wood elf druid and
> my half elf bard as for my Erudite enchanter. Night vision does NOT
> work as well on a darker system (or maybe its because I am playing
> on a laptop)

Usually there's not much you can do with a laptop. On most
video cards though, you can tweak the gamma under the hardware
options. Also, in your hardware configuration, if your
monitor model is one that Windows recognizes, I believe it
also does gamma correction. Since you're playing a 3D game on
a laptop, I assume it's a Dell Inspiron 7500? Right-click on
the desktop, select properties, then settings. I could've
sworn there was a gamma slider on the one I saw.

PCs are notoriously bad about gamma and have never had a
standard. Macs and SGIs OTOH have always been gamma
calibrated. One of the reasons they're still the preferred
platform for professional graphics and video work.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...