Patchy lighting?

cdelse · Post by **cdelse** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:34 am

I recently reinstalled Deus Ex on my new PC to check out HDTP. However I am now noticing that the quality of the lighting in the game is much different than how I remembered it from playing years ago, The lighting seems to be very "patchy" as shown in the screens below. I have used D3D, OpenGL, and the advanced OpenGL renderer found here: http://cwdohnal.home.mindspring.com/utglr/ However I see absolutely no difference between any of the renderers, other than the support of AA. Any help on this problem would be greatly appreciated.

justanotherfan · Post by **justanotherfan** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:41 am

That does look wrong. Maybe the gamma is wrong, or you have vertex lighting on.

Fulgrymm · Post by **Fulgrymm** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:44 am

Looks like the brightness has been jacked all the way up. The default should be 50, but if it's at that already try making it lower.

cdelse · Post by **cdelse** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:46 am

The brightness is at a default of 50. I feel that 50 is the correct value for my monitor as any lower and it really gets hard to see things outside, even a bit indoors as well. Also, vertex lighting is not enabled.

justanotherfan · Post by **justanotherfan** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:03 am

Turn up monitor contrast then and check the gamma. If you've ever met an old game in a bar, the darkness flatters appearances.

ewanlaing · Post by **ewanlaing** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:33 am

i'm guessing that this is just the age of the game coming through. deus ex reborn should clear that up when it's released.

fox · Post by **fox** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:59 am

I have this problem myself since I use my TFT. I did a lot of research but found nothing helpful yet. You can notice the same problem on a lot of screenshots and videos floating around in the web, too.

This is a screen of my game:
http://dxzone.myexp.de/forum/attachment ... d=206&sid=
and the problem is directly connected with the NoLighting-option. If I switch it off, the game looks like this:
http://dxzone.myexp.de/forum/attachment ... d=207&sid=

Post by **Jonas** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:04 pm

Yeah I've been playing with lighting like that for 2-3 years now. It doesn't look pretty, but you get used to it really fast. If we're lucky, using the New Vision project's high-res textures will fix it because better textures = better lighting.

justanotherfan · Post by **justanotherfan** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:29 pm

Well, online multiplayer I guess. I remember cheats, something like "afraid of the dark", makes things easy. Imagine Doom 3 with lots of lighting.

Maybe 16bit textures are on in the screenshots? I don't really know. I have seen the weird banding shadows before, but it looks worse in the screenshots.

cdelse · Post by **cdelse** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:26 am

Everything is set to 32 bit and I messed with the gamma/brightness on my monitor, nothing seems to help.

Jetsetlemming · Post by **Jetsetlemming** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:28 am

Try changing your color depth to 16-bit, both ingame and for your desktop. My lighting scales like that too, but it never used to on my old computer (with a NVIDIA VANTA) or this computer before I got my new video card (was using an onboard Intel 64 MB chipset). Now with a modern card (Radeon 9250) I get that. *shrug* I'll try out changing the color depth, maybe look through the .ini's rendering options later...

cdelse · Post by **cdelse** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 4:00 am

Tried that. Lighting problem still remained and everything turned green when I got close to it.

Post by **Jonas** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:09 pm

Try reducing your resolution to 1024x768. I know it sounds stupid, but it may alleviate the problem a little.

cdelse · Post by **cdelse** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:57 pm

Still nothing.