noisycricket on 11/4/2006 at 22:40

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I just got an LCD monitor and spent some time tweaking some settings to get the shadows to look right. I had a problem with the brightness for awhile, the monitor was too bright so i turned it down, but eventually i realized that made Thief 3(and other games with shadows) look horrible. So anyway, in playing with the settings i got the game to look exellent and i just wanted to offer a suggestion for making the game look better imo.

Try this:
using hot-keys
try turning the brightness down a good amount
then turn the gamma up to compensate for the reduced brightness
also:
if your vid card has a "sharpen image" slider, turn that up. With Nvidia, turning the slider to just over half way to the second mark does the trick for me.

see how that looks to you, hope you like it.

Not a whole new game, but a whole new look imho. :D

noisycricket on 12/4/2006 at 19:21

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thanks for the link

Heres a link to a post I made on widescreengaming.com's forums explaining my earlier situation.

Bottom line for me, I went from wanting to return/sell the LCD after playing Quake 4/Thief 3 with the brightness turned down, to never wanting to go back to CTR after turning the brightness to factory settings(down, but just a bit actually).

(http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4015)