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[Black_Hawk2004]

I purchased the SplinterCell 2 today and the single player version works great. But, the online multiplayer version is way too dark. I've downloaded the most recent drivers for my Radeon graphics card (specs below) and I've adjust the graphics on the card. I've also adjusted the brightness on the single player mode, but that doesn't seem to affect the multiplayer graphics. Help!! I'm open to suggestions, because the game is great, but it just to hard to see.
ccooper10@triad.rr.com

Processor: AMD Athlon,MMX,3DNow, 1.2 GZ
640 mb RAM
Direct X: 9.0b
OP: XP Home Edition
Graphics: Radeon 9500 Pro/9700
Memory: 128mb

[Black_Hawk2004]

I purchased the SplinterCell 2 today and the single player version works great. But, the online multiplayer version is way too dark. I've downloaded the most recent drivers for my Radeon graphics card (specs below) and I've adjust the graphics on the card. I've also adjusted the brightness on the single player mode, but that doesn't seem to affect the multiplayer graphics. Help!! I'm open to suggestions, because the game is great, but it just to hard to see.
ccooper10@triad.rr.com

Processor: AMD Athlon,MMX,3DNow, 1.2 GZ
640 mb RAM
Direct X: 9.0b
OP: XP Home Edition
Graphics: Radeon 9500 Pro/9700
Memory: 128mb

[ziG885]

Thats the ethics behind mp mode, sometimes your forced to sit in the dark in quiet mode (no night vision or thermal goggles). Spies hide in the dark, use the darkness to your advantage, if you can't see just pop the Nightvision goggles on at your own risk. That's the whole point of the game, it wouldn't be sneaky if it wasn't dark...

[faint.]

HA!

[Cyber-Snake-]

Lol, thats really funny.
Completly ironic- its a stealth game where the spys hide in shadows and stuff to stay unseen, and the mercs have to find and stop them. And here you're saying its too dark. It NEEDS to be dark. Thats what torchlights and nightvision are for.

[Darthus]

Well, he may have a point. My monitor was too dark at first. It can be TOO dark. You can go into video I think though, where there are three boxes, one with a check in it, and you adjust your brightness until you can see the check. I did it, and it made it perfect.

[Eidal321]

My friend is using a Radeon 9700 and even with his monitor brightness/contrast at max he can't see the checkbox.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

[Black_Hawk2004]

I realize it's a stealth game, but as I mentioned, it was abnormally dark. It was so dark, I couldn't see any of the 3 boxes (including the check box). I couldn't see to move - even with tourchlight. But anyway, I did discover a way to correct the problem with Radeon. If you click on properties, settings, advance, color and than click on hotkeys. this will give you the ability to assign your gamma, brightness and contrast functions to certain keys (example: "increase brightness = alt+7" etc.). after you've assignd the keys, start the game. you can now control your graphics card color settings from within the game while it's playing. try it - it works. My color works great now. I had to make adjustments to gamma as well as color and contrast. The only problem is I have to adjust the brightness evertime I start the game, it's not saved for some odd reason. Let me know if this works for you "Darthus" and "Eidal321". I'm hoping if enough people express the same problem, a patch will be created to correct.

[This message was edited by Black_Hawk2004 on Sun March 28 2004 at 06:13 AM.]

[Jade247]

I'm having the exact same problem, I can't make any of the check boxes remotely visible, and the game is nearly pitch black even in nightvision. I couldn't get the hotkeys to work, either. Radeon 9600 on a Viewsonic E790B monitor =/

[Commander007]

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