Quake III looks like a red/black/orange orgy and puts my gamma at max

[Seb]

I open the game and it loads fine. But as soon as I move the mouse, shit happens and makes the game look terrible. I can only close it through task manager, and after that my monitor's gamma get's turned up really high.

I googled the problem and it said something about changing the process' settings to run on one processor. I do that, but it doesn't help and the settings change every time I close the game.

I'd include a picture of the red, black, and orange orgy, but the screencap only gave me a full black.

[» Magic «]

set the .exe's properties to 16 bit colour

[Seb]

set the .exe's properties to 16 bit colour

how to?

[Seb]

thanks, magic

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i love you dude but come on answer

[Alex Mason, SOG]

how to?

Does he mean 256 colors? I can get that option.
Right click the exe, click properties, click the compatibility tab.
There should be a checkbox that says "Run in 256 colors"
If this isn't what magic was talking about, just ignore this whole post.

[Seb]

Does he mean 256 colors? I can get that option.
Right click the exe, click properties, click the compatibility tab.
There should be a checkbox that says "Run in 256 colors"
If this isn't what magic was talking about, just ignore this whole post.

Should it be checked or unchecked?

Because it's unchecked and the problem still persists.

[Seb]

Bump, I don't want to have to connect my old computer every time I want to play this game.

[blαh2355]

You have windows XP?

[Seb]

You have windows XP?

My old computer does.