Game is way too dark

[Bruce Springsteen fan]

The very first time I booted Doom it comes up with the light scaling options and I made sure to set to the option where it says you can barely see the Doom icon, but the result is that the game is abnormally dark to where I can't play it even. And I can't seem to access the light scaling option again. I even tried in reinstalling it. Help please.

[Whallex]

Ha, if you thought this is dark you should play doom 3.

[MBinMD]

It's the gamma option in display.

[Bruce Springsteen fan]

Originally posted by Zion:

Ha, if you thought this is dark you should play doom 3.

I don't remember Doom 3 even being this dark

[LordofthePPT]

it wasnt

[Gabi]

Originally posted by roomcleaner:

The very first time I booted Doom it comes up with the light scaling options and I made sure to set to the option where it says you can barely see the Doom icon, but the result is that the game is abnormally dark to where I can't play it even. And I can't seem to access the light scaling option again. I even tried in reinstalling it. Help please.

It is an okay tool, but really if your gamma isn't set right with your monitor it isn't going to actually work as intended. I recommend getting some images to do a basic brightness and contrast calibration on your monitor and then do the in game option again. This will help you with all games and it something everyone should do at bare minimum with there monitor.

[VolteVaris]

Originally posted by roomcleaner:

Originally posted by Zion:

Ha, if you thought this is dark you should play doom 3.

I don't remember Doom 3 even being this dark

No, certainly doom 3 was dark. It was so dark it was memetically dark. They said that doom 4 was basically just going to be black.

To quote, roughly, john carmack; "Doom 3 would of been a lot better if players could of seen the damned thing."

[Gabi]

Originally posted by SAVE PLANETSIDE 1!:

Originally posted by roomcleaner:

I don't remember Doom 3 even being this dark

No, certainly doom 3 was dark. It was so dark it was memetically dark. They said that doom 4 was basically just going to be black.

To quote, roughly, john carmack; "Doom 3 would of been a lot better if players could of seen the damned thing."

To which they did bfg and killed the game. Karmack isn't a game deisgner and doom 3 played with dark very well. Seeing more would have been counter to the design of the final release.

[Jenny]

Originally posted by Zion:

Ha, if you thought this is dark you should play doom 3.

lol You are so right!!!

[KriKitBoNeZ]

Just uh....turn the brightness up? That is a guideline which isn't set in stone. Everyone has different monitors and eyeballs.

[Samael]

I know i remember someone who had the same problem as you. Please use the search function and find the thread talking about this. It was a bug and the person had to put his graphica control panel to Default settings to fix the problem.

[Ðurzo]

Calibrate your monitor.

Use this image to set the proper constrast and brightness:

http://krazyblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/6291.png

You should redo it every few months.

[Frog2017]

I Have Doom on Playstation 4 and happily on my PC now with a GTX 1070 I can say that from what I have seen using the same Samsung 3D TV for both is that the Doom PC is Darker than the PS4 Console.

[heccma79]

You kidding? after playing this I bought Doom 3 because I missed some real dark.

[Sniffles]

Hate to Necro the chat but Jesus h, my accuracy is 00.05% because I spent the whole game shooting the plasma pistol using it as a 3ft flashlight

[Aim3D]

Adjust the GAMMA option IN GAME. This fixed it for me.