CS:GO With Linux Is WAY Too Dark

[SirArthurYeetcannon]

I've tested this on multiple machines running multiple distributions of Linux, and every time I ran this game on any system with Linux it seems like I get this issue. In-game contrast/colors for CS:GO are WAY too dark. Even when I turn in-game brightness and my monitor's brightness and contrast all the way up to the maximum, the game's contrast/color rendering is still too dark to be playable.

I've noticed the problem occurs slowly when I spawn: the moment I spawn into game everything seems perfectly fine, but as I move around it gets darker and darker. When I die and it cuts to the "You Were Killed By..." screen, it resets to being "normal" where everything is perfectly clear to see. Then as soon as I respawn again, everything gets darker again.

Here's a list of systems I've played the game on:

Lenovo Y40-80, R9 M275X graphics card running AMD Catalyst drivers, Windows 7 (NO PROBLEMS AT ALL)
Lenovo Y40-80, R9 M275X graphics card running AMDGPU drivers, Linux Mint 18
Lenovo Y40-80, R9 M275X graphics card running builtin drivers, Antergos
Intel Pentium E5700 desktop build, R5 230 graphics card running builtin drivers, Ubuntu 16.04
Intel i3-6100 desktop build, Intel HD 530 integrated graphics running builtin drivers, Ubuntu 16.10

Since I ran this on a variety of systems each with different graphics driver software, I'm pretty sure this isn't a hardware problem at all, and it probably isn't a driver problem. If anyone can tell me how to maybe "force" the game to render itself brighter or with higher contrast, please let me know. Otherwise, I guess I'm reporting this as a bug.

Just to give you a gauge for how dark it is, here's how Dust 2 tunnels normally look from inside:

https://thelibrarycsgo.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/csgo-2012-09-01-11-29-51-99.jpg?w=960

Here's about how they look for me (just edited brightness/contrast in GIMP):

http://oi64.tinypic.com/2d840tl.jpg

[Aesthetic]

It's an issue with linux. You need to do some tinkering and install some custom packages via the terminal

[shiel]

Right click on the game in your library, select "view forum" and post there. You might find a fix.

[SirArthurYeetcannon]

Originally posted by shiel:

Right click on the game in your library, select "view forum" and post there. You might find a fix.

Thank you for telling me about that. This is my first time using Steam forums so I didn't know where to post to.

[Aesthetic]

A quick google search will reveal many solutions for you

[SirArthurYeetcannon]

Originally posted by Nightenhelser:

A quick google search will reveal many solutions for you

I'm currently looking for a config.cfg file in the game's directory but I'm not finding anything so far. Tried changing mat_monitorgamma to different values but it didn't do anything.

[SirArthurYeetcannon]

Ladies and gentlemen, it looks like I solved the problem by manually turning up the Gamma in Ubuntu itself. Just type the following into a terminal:

xgamma -gamma 1.3.1.3

And everything should look normal.

[The Giving One]

Just in case you need help on Steam issues in the future, there is also a Linux forum...

http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/

Thanks for the reply, though. Good luck to you.