RavynousHunter on 14/12/2006 at 19:19
Quote Posted by Ardesco
I play TDS so I can't see Garrett at all in the test screen, then turn up the sound so I can hear everything.
Isnt 5.1 surround sound a beautiful thing? :sly: I got 5.1, and playing Thief is like, totally saaaweeeet!
EAX FTW!!
BEAR on 14/12/2006 at 20:34
Depending on the map I adjust it to where pitch black on the light gem is almost pitch black on my screen, as long as I can still see somewhat.
Timiditas on 16/12/2006 at 12:46
I can't agree to to the common position that TFTs are that bad for thieving.
Of course, there is just as much junk in the LCD section like there is in the CRT one.
I bought a Samsung SynMaster 193T, one of the rather early models.
Hardcore gamers would throw it out of the window for its latencies, but the colors are brilliant and its ability to display the dark Thief surrounding is very good, at least in my humble opinion. Of course it needs a good adaption of brightness/contrast/gamma but hell, thats required with ANY display for a good Thief experience.
I'd never want to work at or even play on a CRT again. Ever! If I had the money, I would even get rid of my CRT TV set, but plasma TVs or the big LCD sets are way too much for my purse.
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I adjusted brightness and contrast of my LCD panel in windows so that the brightness is maxed AND the colors still not look washed out - and black is still black. In the night, when every lights are off, my windows desktop nearly dazzles me with that setting.
In Thief 1/2, I usually keep the gamma setting slider on the default middle.
This generally gives me a very nice overall picture quality.
Although in some Thief2 levels (like the very first, down in the staff bedrooms) I get some serious problems if I don't have any flares with me.
bikerdude on 16/12/2006 at 21:59
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TFTs (other than, apparently, the highest-quality, ultra-expensive models) suck for Thief. The contrast ratios are simply not high enough to show the difference between somewhat dark and completely dark. I've avoided an LCD for years because of this.
Right now I'm using a CRT; for Thief, I set the monitor's brightness extremely low - low enough that a pitch-black screen emits no light (the monitor looks like it's shut off), and then I adjust the gamma in-game until it's playable. The colours and contrast are so much richer this way.
I am totaly the same for the first paragragh, but on the second, all I do is lower the brightness so I cant see the "grill effect" that nvidia cards produce - and this is just about the right balance to give good shadows, show enought detail whilst keeping the monitor as dark as possible.
I have tried several LCD's and all where shite with regard to being as pitch black as a crt.
biker
Aja on 16/12/2006 at 22:50
Not to mention backlight bleeding, which is simply a gamble when you buy an LCD.
As soon as my laptop comes back from repairs, I'll take a side by side picture of it displaying Thief vs my CRT. Games like Doom artificially enhance the black levels so that they do look good on screens with low contrast ratios, but I have yet to see an LCD that can make Thief (and especially Thief 2) look anything close to a CRT.
yooguruto on 18/12/2006 at 21:31
since ive been using rgb on my eizo monitor, im disapointed with hue of black colour. Black is not so black as it should be :). In fact that i used to play (always) thief with low brightness. So I turn off RGB option I enjoy playing, when dark place stays dark. Looking around in completely dark room isnt so anoying like sb could think ^^
PS. Id like to apologise for my language skills :). If there is no problem, i want to ask how should this sentence look like? "since ive been using rgb on my eizo monitor, Im disappointed / i was disappointed or (use still same tense) ive been disapointed :), i would be grateful for advice ^^
Aja on 19/12/2006 at 08:09
Use the same tense :)
For what it's worth, I don't find your English difficult to understand.
yooguruto on 19/12/2006 at 14:46
TY :)
The thing that I know its not a perfect English. There are only 3 tenses in my mother language :], so its pretty diffucult for me to fit into all sixteen tenses :D. Nevermind ... Id like to ask you all for some patience, hope that after 1000 posts my skill will increas ;)
sorry for OT ^^ brightness brightness brightness ;P
