Sephy on 10/3/2018 at 17:04
Hi everyone!
I couldn't find anything concerning this topic so far and I'm not even sure, if I should post it here or rather in an OBS forum, but I figured I might as well try...
So I'm currently recording Thief 2 for a friend (he has no PC, never played the games, but is totally into atmospheric games like Thief) and I'm using OBS for recording. But recently I got told my videos were way too dark, so I tried playing around with the gamma adjustment in-game and noticed that the changes ARE reflected in-game, but NOT in my recording. Like, if I turn the gamma adjustment all the way up, then it's so bright in-game that my eyes almost explode, but on the video that I record with OBS, there is... absolutely no change.
Here's a video I recorded, showing exactly this:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ROCVOZOodg)
The gamma actually changed in-game, but none of that was reflected in the recording. Which makes me wonder, where the recording is even getting its gamma setting from?
So... I had a look at my NVIDIA Control Panel, wondering if it was maybe overwriting the in-game settings, but it is set to "Other applications control color settings", so that can't be it, either, can it?
Here's a screenshot of that:
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https://pasteboard.co/HbhkxFQ.png)
The only thing I could find so far concerning Thief 2 and gamma, was this thread: (
https://www.gog.com/forum/thief_series/ingame_gamma_settings_not_working)
But a) this is a different issue, because my gamma adjustment IS working in-game, it's just not being reflected in the recording, and b) I tried the suggested solution in that thread, nonetheless, but it didn't fix it, either.
And that's about it... Any ideas? :(
Thanks in advance!
Yandros on 10/3/2018 at 17:18
I don't know about video recording for certain, but I do know that the gamma setting is not reflected in screen shots either, I always have to boost the gamma in an image editor before sharing them. So it's possible that video as captured by a third party would have the same behavior. Assuming there is no pre-capture solution, you can drop the clip into a video editor (I use VideoPad) and boost the gamma or brightness there and then re-render the video.
Sephy on 10/3/2018 at 18:34
Oh, thanks, that's a great idea (and now I actually feel kinda stupid for not thinking of that myself :D). I just checked in the software I use for cutting my videos and it does indeed have an easy option to up the brightness.
Alternatively, I could probably also tell NVIDIA to do overwrite the color settings of software and use the NVIDIA Control Panel to adjust the gamma. It's just that that also changes various other settings, so I'd have to take some time to adjust all of them to look the same as my screen looks now.
Anyway, I guess you can consider this issue sort of solved, then, since using video software to up the brightness afterwards is indeed a good and simple solution to my problem.
I'm still kinda curious as to what's causing this in the first place, though, so if anyone happens to know, it sure would be interesting to hear. :)
AluminumHaste on 11/3/2018 at 15:54
If your system can handle it, turn on d3d_disp_sw_cc in cam_ext.cfg and see if that works.
