Starcraft lighting issues

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ok i have looked high and low for the solution to my issue. Which is basicly this, I used to play Warcraft 2 A lot in california i was into the story about it and what not but i sort of drifted from it and am now living in Ohio where i didnt have any computer savy friends. But i now have a friend , Spam (long story), who has showed me the wonder known as starcraft broodwar. Well his two brothers , Matt and Ben, are as well "starcrafters" so my buddy spam and i would LAN, I on his computer and him on his brothers, well long story short i finaly got off my butt and got starcraft, broodwar, battlenet and all that jazz. BUT apon installing and what not i discovered when it came to playing the game every thing was like SUPER DARK as in the ground which was suppose to be a neutral grey was a black i couldnt differenciat between the areas of which i have explored or not. I then discovered that the problem was the same apon re-installing warcraft 2 way to dark the ground that was suppose to be a rich green was a dark black ( if black can be darker than well black ) i have tryed adjusting the brightness and contrast of my moniter its self they are both all the way up then i went through the "adobe gamma" settings on my controll panel and adjusted every thing to "normal" conditions restarted then try the game and the same issue would be aparent. then i thought, as a simply solution, i would simply adjust the "gamma" settings for my PC like SUPER BRIGHT hope-ing to counter act the darkness but to no avail im at my wits end with this im hoping that some one can help me i apologize for the mispellings and all that rot but im not quite all here at the moment um i consider my self to at lease comprehend what a computer does and how it works but much beyond the fact that im runing windows 98 i dont know im sorry awaiting much needed help
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Wow, that thread was not only long, but confusing. I'm confused. :(
 
Do you have the latest drivers for your video card installed? Your video card drivers are the software that Windows uses to "communicate" with your video card. You can get the latest version of those drivers at your video card maker's website. To find out what kind of video card you have, follow these steps:

- Right-click on the My Computer icon on your desktop and click Properties
- Click the Device Manager tab
- Click the plus sign next to the Display Adapters category
- What's listed there is the video card you have installed in your system

Do you have the latest version of DirectX installed? DirectX is a Windows API (Application Programming Interface) that almost all games designed for Windows 95 and up use, including Starcraft. You should have the latest version of DirectX installed for optimal performance and stability with games that use it. You can get it here:

http://www.microsoft.com/directx/

I'd imagine that updating your video card drivers and/or DirectX will solve your brightness issue. Starcraft can display properly on just about any video card, so you shouldn't be having any trouble with it.
 
i have the same problem as this. i have updated my drivers, and i am currently getting direct X cuz of the last poster here. not only the darkness issue, but when im on battle.net alot of the text comes up as random letters. (ie $&^ and alot of others)

any help would be great
 
^^^^^

that post was me, and i am happy to say downloading direct X 9 fixed my preoblem.

thanks
 
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