Commander Menu Doesn't Have Any Color

ther · September 2004

The title is a little misleading. The command menu does have color, that color just happens to be black. Completely. The cursor is also black. When I hit tab for the scoreboard, the server name/map name are also black (used to be blue?). I just updated my video drivers. I am running windows2k3 on a 2.6 amd with 512 megs of ram, and a radeon 9600. I've tried switching to direct3d, software, and back to openGL and nothing seems to work. I had this problem in the first steam beta as well, but not on the WON version. My hardware and OS hasn't changed since WON either. This problem is only specific to NS, not any other mods that I play, third-party or otherwise.

Is there a simple solution to this problem that I'm just missing? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Dantemss · September 2004

You just installed NS Steam, right?

This is a gamma bug, I believe. Either you are externally forcing your gamma (video card settings?) or your video card is having trouble changing it or something like that. I can think of 2 possible solutions:

1- Go to the video tab and tweak your gamma there. If there is an improvement, but it's not enough, reduce your lightgamma to 2.
2- Use an external program or the driver settings to control your gamma. Someone has solved their problem using this, but I'm not sure which settings or which program did he use.

If you are having gamma problems on custom maps, just press esc to fix it.
Keep playing using OpenGL, btw. It's the only supported video mode. (D3D works, but has problems)

ther · September 2004

I tried adjusting the slider in-game and it exits, but when the game restarts the gamma slider is in the same place that it was before.

ther · September 2004

here is a screen shot of the menu.

ther · September 2004

little help?

DragonMech · September 2004

Make sure you config.cfg file isn't write-protected when you are changing your gamma.

todd1Ok · September 2004

i had this exact same problem happen to me. i had no idea how it happened, or why, but it might be something to do with the video card drivers. try rolling back to a previous version, worked for me.

ther · September 2004

How old were the vid drivers you went back to? I went back to the ones at the beginning of 2004 and I still have the problem.

Hunter_Extreme · September 2004

i also have this problem
i have a Nvidia 6800GT
and it dosent have any color on my com chair Screen

plz someone find out how to fix this

Thansal · September 2004

If this is the bug that I think it is then it has been around for a very long time, and there is no known fix (as there is nothing that correlates the different people and the problem)

I am guessing that you also get a blacked out alien Hud (can't see the hives properly, your adren/rez bars are black etc)

The original problem stemed from having multiple monitors. If you have multiple monitors then disable the second one (not just turn off or unplug, DISABLE, this goes for if you have a vid card that supports said set up)

However after this many people have gotten the same problem.

there is absoloutly no known fix/workaround for this problem.

All I can think is if every one posts up very explisit system specs we might be able to find a corelation.

include everything:
sys specs
dxdiag
OS
OS patches
any 3rd party programs running
try ussing this tool: <a href='http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php' target='_blank'>CPUz</a>

EVERYTHING

Hunter_Extreme · September 2004

i love how i have the baddest Graphics card made today and get problems cause its to advanced

Thansal · September 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Hunter_Extreme @ Sep 26 2004, 06:21 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> i love how i have the baddest Graphics card made today and get problems cause its to advanced  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
wth did you just say?

your last post made less sense then I normaly do!

Commander Menu Doesn't Have Any Color

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