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"Calling all computing Genius's.....................PLEASE!!!!!!!"

when i start a game like champ man from windows XP the brightness of the screen drops to about 20%. The monitor is still set to 100% and windows the same. Its hasnt always been like this and has only started to happen recently. All games were doing this so uninstalled them and put them back on with no joy.

ANY SUGGESTIONS ?

when i start a game like champ man from windows XP the brightness of the screen drops to about 20%. The monitor is still set to 100% and windows the same. Its hasnt always been like this and has only started to happen recently. All games were doing this so uninstalled them and put them back on with no joy.

ANY SUGGESTIONS ?

sounds like a monitor problem to me (i'm no expert!) can't think that it can be the game software ?? I know some FPS have brightness controls but most publishers leave you to adjust brightness via your monitor. Have your tried the monitor manufacturer/where you bought it from ?

Try changing your XP resolution to the same resolution you are using for the game, it could possibly be a simple problem with that resolution. Also try looking into your graphics drivers for the brightness settings on your video card drivers to see if it has individual settings for DirectX and OpenGL.

If all else fails try removing then installing the latest card drivers for your video card. If it doesn't help contact your hardware supplier for help, especially if it is under warranty.

I remember having to save the brightness settings for my graphics card driver in order to get the same brightness after exiting a game.

Details plz - GC manufacturer etc, new drivers installed recently and the like???

It's for the GeForce 3 - drivers are pretty recent, v40.72 I think.

My best suggestion is to get 'Detonator destroyer' delete the new drivers and re-instal old ones that worked either that or mess around with gamma correction settings in the nvidia software.

Any help?

I had the same problem. Got a new monitor though and it worked fine after that.

Det destoyer only works in 98..... other than that XP is fine putting unistalling normally than putting in the new drivers.

Good point I also have xp and I had resolution problems with 40.72 drivers and although det destroyers dont work on xp you can do an uninstal on xp and it doesnt leave anything behind as far as im aware

I downloaded the new drivers 41.09 (supposedly 25% better in the readme although I only got a few more points out on bench mark) this cured the resolution prob when exiting games.

Most monitors have a memory for things like brightness and resolution and I assumed at first it was a dodgy monitor but found out it was a xp bad install of drivers

well good luck with it anyway