Hey Gang,

I'm a veteran to the Wizardry series, starting with Wizardry 4. I recently purchased W&W via mail order, and was excited to begin playing through the game. However, the lighting is -so- horrendous, that I can barely make out the text on the menus, much less manuever through the game. I downloaded the 'beta' patch, and added the -light=n (n being a number between 1-16) command line, but it made -no- difference whatsoever, despite the fact that I AM running the game in D3D as it suggests for the new lighting key. Playing the game in Software mode helps a bit, but not much. Maxing out the gamma doesn't seem to do much either. I've got a GeForce 2 with the newest nvidea drivers... Has anyone else experienced this problem? I'd really appreciate the help so I can get a start playing. [img]smile.gif[/img]

- Thanks!
Madcap

Welcome to the board, Madcap!!

Sorry to hear that you are having lighting problems. We've seen complaints about the game appearing too dark but I don't believe that has ever included the text - just the countryside and dungeons.

As for adding in the -light=n n is a number between 1 and 10 (not 16). If you set it for 16 it may be defaulting to 1 but I'm not sure.
There is a thread which should still be on page 1 on adjusting your lighting.

Have you trying changing the contrast and brightness on your monitor?

Hope we can find you some help soon! It's a fun game!

Wyv

have your tried adjusting contrast and brightness of your monitor, i put it up to 100 for both of them and i can see the game clearly

Madcap,

First off, welcome to the board.

I have the same problem under windoze Me, it can't understand the extention switch for light.

Here's the solution.

1- Right click your cursor on your desktop
2- On the menu, choose "properties"
3- Go to "settings"
4- Go to "Advance"
5- Here's were it might vary - Find the tab which contains "gamma" settings. On my TNT2 (also by NVidia) it's under "color correction".
6- Slide the gamma to the right (1.6 is perfect for the game's dungeon and still dark at night)
7- press OK to accept the settings
8- Load your game and play.

You'll have to repeat this everytime you want to play your game... but atleast you can play. :D

good luck

You can also adjust the gamma setting within W&W, giving you (I believe) the same benefit as mentioned above, but without the need to tweak your vid card every so often. It made a big difference for me.

Oh, forgot to mention that my game's gamma setting was set to max before I tweaked the card [img]smile.gif[/img]