Looks like I am done buying games on Gog. Been having problems with a couple games running so dark you can't play. One I fixed by running in OpenGL, one cannot be fixed. Now, I just "updated" a game, and it too is now running so dark it can't be played. I see now that this was the plan all along. It's a common tech company disease. Put out software, keep updating software until it's unusable. And so here it is one of my favorite companies and I can no longer do business with them. Sad.

You sure it's not something on your end? What are your system specs? What driver are you using? I've not seen a issue like this reported in the 8 years I've been on these boards.

No offense, but I've literally never heard of this happening before. Please share more details?

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I've seen a few topics where people seem to have the same issue, mostly when running fullscreen while windowed mode seems fine.

You could actually contact GOG support as they do actually support the games. They may or may not be able to help you determine the cause of the problem but they'll certainly try - unlike pretty much every other game distributor online. They've helped me sort out many problems with games including:

- Blitzkrieg graphics problems
- The Nations, Alien Nations, Robin Hood blurry graphics (disable morphological filtering in ATI control panel)
- numerous other odd quirks, none of which are problems created by or caused by GOG whatsoever, and none of which they have any obligation to do anything about - but they do anyway.

Think about it, before online gaming where did people buy games? At Walmart, EB Games, Zellers, Target, other game retail stores. If those people had graphics problems with their games did they go apeshit angry at Walmart about it?

No, of course not. Why? Because Walmart didn't hire the programmers to write the game. Walmart just sells the games and if you have a problem with the game then contact the video game publisher or your video driver manufacturer - the two prime culprits of any video game problem other than problems specific to your own computer (ie: viruses, broken hardware, etc.)

How is this even a GOG problem at all? It isn't. But GOG's awesome support nonetheless supports the games to the best of their ability anyway even though they didn't write them in the first place. Something you wont get from any other video game retailer.

So stop shopping at GOG if you wish, but good luck getting any support from Steam, Origin, Uplay, or any other retailer for your games. It's always fun to have someone to blame whether they're responsible or not though isn't it.

Ah yes, GOG's secret longterm plan to make all those supporting DRM to go blind so the Steam Masterrace can march onto the glorious dawn mwwahahaha!

Seriously though, the problem is your end, this has never happend on the >900 games I have here on various different PC's.

Mission ABORTED. I repeat mission is a NO GO. We've been discovered. Make everything run not so dark again. Our Glorious Five Year Plan has been discovered!

Would the OP like to share some details of the games in question, so people might be able to help?

That screen shot certainly suggests something is not right, but I'm fairly certain it will be on your end and not something Gog os purposefully doing...

Um...you do realize that if you contact support and they can't fix your problem, they'll give you a refund on your game, right?

If this was a thread requesting help he would have answered the questions if the first few posters about his system and details.
Instead it appears to be some kinda rant.

another hit and run anti-gog thread.

move on.

For me the Thief games (1 and 2) on GOG were far too dark. I turned out it was because for some reason the brightness, or was it gamma, settings in the game didn't work with my graphics drivers. Since the games are about sneaking in the dark, many times I couldn't really see much of anything while running in some dark corridor.

I played Thief 1 through like that, but while playing Thief 2, I found some way to fix it so that I as able to change the brightness/gamma in the game. I just don't remember what the fix was...

That's it! The T-Rex in Tomb Raider 1 was too hard to kill.

I'm done buying games here!