Stronghold 2 - gamma?

[bdbryant]

Stronghold 2 (and to a lesser extent, Legends) looks like it has some kind of gamma problem. Stone structures are so bleached out that you can hardly look at them, and the stone piles are so white that they don't have and 3D appearance.

I can't make it much better with my nVidia control panel.

Another thread suggests disabling SLI for a problem with "white fences", but I do not have SLI.

Any suggestions?

I'm on Windows 7, which the Steam release is supposed to support.

[stronger]

Disabling 'Bloom', may resolve this problem.

[bdbryant]

Originally Posted by stronger

Disabling 'Bloom', may resolve this problem.

That did fix it -- thanks!

[lucifercrow514]

Yes this happens when i try forcing up my graphics. Everything looks really bright and bleached.

[bdbryant]

Originally Posted by lucifercrow514

Yes this happens when i try forcing up my graphics. Everything looks really bright and bleached.

If you still get the graphics configuration dialog whenever you start the game, just uncheck the "bloom" option.

If you told it you didn't want to see the dialog every time, I'm not sure what the optimal way of getting it back is. I deleted local content and re-installed, and still didn't get it. So I deleted the entire My Documents --> Stronghold 2 folder and started getting it again.

Presumably you don't have to delete the whole folder, if you have your own maps or save-games, but I didn't try to narrow it down to a specific file to delete.

[lucifercrow514]

Originally Posted by bdbryant

If you still get the graphics configuration dialog whenever you start the game, just uncheck the "bloom" option.

If you told it you didn't want to see the dialog every time, I'm not sure what the optimal way of getting it back is. I deleted local content and re-installed, and still didn't get it. So I deleted the entire My Documents --> Stronghold 2 folder and started getting it again.

Presumably you don't have to delete the whole folder, if you have your own maps or save-games, but I didn't try to narrow it down to a specific file to delete.

If you unchecked the "Always show this dialog option" then FEAR NOT!!

go to your documents and click on the stronghold 2 folder and in that folder you'll find a file named Stronghold2.GraphicsSettings. Its an XML file.

Right click the Stronghold2.GraphicsSettings file and choose the Open with and click Notepad and make sure its notepad.

Now look and search for a configuration like this
<settingsDialog enabled="false"/>

Instead of having it as "false" type down "true" so it can look like this
<settingsDialog enabled="true"/>

Once your done with that go to File then click Save

Now try restarting stronghold 2 on steam and tell me if there were any results