Voodoo 2 is dark

A friend of mine has a P2/350 with an 8MB Diamond 2D card bundled with a Diamond Monster Voodoo 2 12MB 3D accelerator. He has made no changes, and is using the latest drivers provided by Diamond. We tried the reference drivers, but no difference. When a program is using the 2D card, everything is fine. When he plays anything that uses the accelerator (TFC, Diablo 2, Rogue Spear, etc.) the graphics are almost pitch black dark. We've tried turning the gamma up all the way on both the monitor and the software settings, and it helps only barely. The Monster Voodoo 2 card is in a PCI slot and has been moved to every other available slot, whether it is bus-mastering or not -- it doesn't make a difference. The 2D Diamond card is in the AGP slot. I think the card has gone bad. I mean, it's so dark I can't even get any of my computers that dark even if I tried!

Any ideas? I tried looking around on a few sites, even Google, but couldn't come up with anything. Thanks in advance.

Adjust the gamma in the game (or in the video settings if you have one) This should make your games brighter.

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set the glide/opengl gamma higher in the Voodoo 2 control panel

i had a voodoo banshee awhile back, and on some games (quake 1 + 2, hexen, and i think some others) it rendered so dark, it made some parts of the games almost unplayable (even with the gamma and the monitor brightness turned all the way up).

anyways, if thats what you mean, you can do a search for something called idgamma, which i used with great success.

may wanna give it a shot if the normal gamma setting wont shed any light on the subject.

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Originally posted by smaier69:

may wanna give it a shot if the normal gamma setting wont shed any light on the subject.

LMAO Smaier, nice line hahaha LOL



can you tell that I liked that line...hehe

Thanks for the replies, but the gamma has been turned up in all scenarios: monitor, Diamond software, and in the game. It's weird. It didn't do this before. It's about 2 years old I guess (all the PC parts).

I'll look into that idgamma program; thanks.

I had a problem with team fortress being to dark and maxing the in-game settings didn't help. I adjust the gamma and brightness settings in the game's config file and everything is much brighter. You might want to try this for each game you play.

yeah thats Normal for Glide. There's nothing you can really do to improve it.. I tried everything on my Voodoo 5 6000 but everybodys still comes out dark,

Just use Photo shop or something to brighten them.

Its not unusual to have to adjust the brightnes settings for any type of video card in games. Its just the way it is dudes.

Specifically for voodoo cards, go into display properties, settings, advanced and then into 3DFX colour. This applies to V3, V4 and V5 cards. Cant remember what I had to do for my SLI V2 setup. It was so long ago....
AHHHH..... 1998, what a great year.


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Again, all of the Voodoo settings (software) and game software (settings in-game), and hardware settings on the monitor have been adjusted. It was never like this before, never dark. I still believe the card is bad. Tried game config files. Time for him to upgrade anyway.