q3a on Linux: everything got very dark or black (multitextur

[lagavulin]

Hello Folks,

some weeks ago (maybe 4-5) everything in q3a got very dark, or black. I'm running quake3 v1.32 (b or c), Fedora 19 (64bit), with the nvidia driver (xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-319.32-7.fc19.x86_64). I'd be grateful if someone has an idea what has gone wrong. It seems it might have something to do with multitextures. Anyone know how to turn them off? Below is a screenshot of how things look, more or less. I have r_gamma set to "2", which makes it possible to sort-of play, even when everything is so dark. The screenshot was almost black, so I increased the levels ot what it looks like for me with my r_gamma setting.

cheers,

Lagavulin

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[lvlshot]http://www.vakuum.de/quake3-multitexture-problem-1000x563.jpg[/lvlshot]

[obsidian]

Try backing up and then deleting your .cfg files and let the game recreate defaults and see if that helps.

[lagavulin]

> Try backing up and then deleting your .cfg files and let the game recreate defaults and see if that helps.

sorry -- I should have mentioned. I've tried that, but no change.

lagavulin

[axbaby]

check your config for the setting r_ignorehwgamma
set it to 0 or 1 .. and restart

see if that works

[MKJ]

/vid_restart to speed things up.

[DTS]

I think it's what Axbaby said, but also check you haven't got an autoexec.cfg adding that r_ignorehwgamma setting.

[lagavulin]

check your config for the setting r_ignorehwgamma
set it to 0 or 1 .. and restart

see if that works

It was set to 0, I tried changing it to 1 (yes, with vid_restart), but it makes no difference.

cheers,

lagavulin

[SoM]

does this happen on every map ? maybe you got some bad .pk3

[lagavulin]

does this happen on every map ? maybe you got some bad .pk3

yep, every map.

lagavulin

[SoM]

have you considered reinstalling without any third party maps or rolling back on the nvidia driver