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Why are some graphics "hardware settings" grayed out in Windlight?

Mircea Lobo
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02-14-2008 09:31
I am currently using the Windlight client, v1.19.0 (79674), and options such as Gamma, Nighttime Brightness and Fog Distance Ratio are grayed out for me and locked, like in the image below.



My video card settings are:

Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Graphics Card: Radeon X1300 Series (Omega 3.8.421) x86/SSE2
OpenGL Version: 2.0.6956 WinXP Release

I am not using the official ATI drivers however (using Omega drivers for ATI). At first I thought it may be because of that, since I remember downdated drivers disable certain graphics options. But all of my rendering options are enabled and mine are still modern up to date drivers. It would be silly and absurd for options such as gamma, night brightness and fog to be unavailable while all other latest rendering options are on and working perfectly.

From what I read in the WL release too, even on the Winglight client these options where not removed and should still have a purpose, so they are not forgotten settings either. So in that case... why are they grayed out for me? How do I ungray them to make them work here?
Imnotgoing Sideways
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02-14-2008 09:59
Doesn't the grayed out stuff turn on when the Filtering box is checked? (^_^)
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Mircea Lobo
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02-14-2008 10:14
From: Imnotgoing Sideways
Doesn't the grayed out stuff turn on when the Filtering box is checked? (^_^)


Nopes... tried it with everything else but they're unrelated. Wouldn't see why anisotropic texture filtering would have anything to do with such options either, they're completely unrelated.
Imnotgoing Sideways
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02-14-2008 11:47
I'm sure there's something else to tick somewhere... Those adjustments are available for me. I'm not using ATI though. (^_^)
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