What Is With This?

typical_skeleton

<div class="IPBDescription">desktop goes white.</div> disclaimer: I love ns and I think it does 99.9% of everything correctly.

anyway...

I, like a lot of people, have a life outside of video games. this "life" includes talking to people that I know offline, while still online. because hl games are usually not maintanence-heavy (i.e, you can leave when you're waiting to spawn, or hop away for a few seconds without much happening to you) I like to play in a window.

this works nicely with games like cs, as I can hop out of cs and talk to people online while waiting to spawn.

ns, however, does something unusual... it turns my whole desktop a bright white, as if light is being emitted from it. it also plays eerie music.

this is all well and good, except it interferes a lot with doing anything outside of ns.

it's a neat effect and whatnot, but I'd like to get rid of it. anyone know if this is possible?.. anyone know why it does this to begin with?.. aside from just being neato-torpedo?

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Spyder_Monkey

It's because of the gamma correction within NS. There's a file in the NS directory called resetgamma. I have a shortcut in my windows bar for those occassions.

masterswordman

It because NS edits your gamma, and if you type exit in console, or don't turn the game off it will continue, we all had it before.

coil

(Technically, it's overbrightening and not gamma. But Spyder has the right of it.)