Everything is yellow

[Aleph]

That's about it. My dominions game has taken on an odd yellow cast to it, all text and text boxes are yellow. Anyone else have this happen? Basic search for yellow reveals no hits. It's still readable and playable, just really odd.

[Starshine_Monarch]

Wow . . .

I am completely puzzled. Show us some screens maybe?

[Gregstrom]

Maybe check your monitor cable?

[capnq]

Sounds like a dying monitor to me. I had an old monitor that intermittently lost the red pixels, leaving everything a dark green hue. I think losing the blue pixels would produce yellow, but I'm not sure.

[jimkehn]

"Don't go where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow"

[sansanjuan]

.. or perhaps that Coldplay song?
-SSJ

[Saxon]

I had a similar problem, but it also included the monitor shifting the presentation of the screen, so a third of it was not visible. In my case, everything turned yellow and the screen presentation was funny everywhere except with Dominions. The Dominions game looked really bad with so much yellow.

I went into my graphic card utility and reset everything to the original hardware defaults. That fixed everything, including my wife grumbling about the baby pictures not looking right. I was more worried about Dominions, but got in a lot of trouble when I mentioned it…

[Dedas]

Fixing the wife you say... sounds too good to be true.

[PvK]

Huh. My screen (a CRT) got a yellow tinge to it too after playing lots of Dom 3 on it. But I am (was?) sure it's just the monitor breaking down.

[sansanjuan]

Sax-"including my wife grumbling about the baby pictures not looking right. I was more worried about Dominions, but got in a lot of trouble when I mentioned it…"

I hear that! The wife is none too happy with me when my D3 games require long thoughtful turns when I should be spending quality time watching American Idol with her...
-SSJ

[Saxon]

SSJ,

You should be happy when my wife pulls me away to watch Dark Angel on DVD. It is the only thing keeping your pony boys alive! Seriously, I hear you, the longer turns and thought on something less immediate than RL is not always popular.

PvK, I ran into this with a flat screen. I am pretty sure it is Dominions related, as internet explorer is pretty stable and not that graphics intensive. I have not been doing anything else on that machine for a couple of months. Try a reset, see if it changes anything

[Aleph]

Didn't happen for a while, happened again today on a totally different game (NWN). Odd, too, in that it stops as soon as I go back to desktop, making me think it's not the monitor.

I have NFC...

[Foodstamp]

Sounds like a video card issue. What type of video card do you have? And have you updated your drivers?

[deadboi]

I have to agree with the bad monitor suggestion. If it's happening intermittently I could be a broken wire in the cord. I had an old monitor where if you jiggled the cable the screen would change colours. I had it on one of my servers that only ran a text terminal so it was fun to play around with different colours. It eventually died... I wonder why? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/confused.gif

Do you mean NEC monitors?

I had a horrible experience with NEC. Sit back and let me tell you a tail of woe and misery.

I had dual head running on a pair of 19" NEC CRT's. After about 8 months both started emitting a high pitch squeal noise whenever there was a lot of white on the screen. I called NEC up cause they were still on warranty.

They sent me refurbished ones (part of their warranty policy or some such nonsense cause they didn't make that model anymore) and I sent the old ones back. On one of the "new" ones they sent me the screen would twitch intermittently and the other one had an awful yellow tint to it.

I had them send me two more sent the other ones back. With this pair one had some cruft stuck behind the glass or the aperture grille was damaged cause there were several black spots, like dead pixels on an LCD but this was a CRT. The other one was even more yellow then the last one.

Sent them back again and got yet two more. By golly these two actually seemed to be okay at first. But after a couple weeks one of them started twitching, at which point I did too.

I had been patient and polite up till this point in dealing with them but I had reached my limit. I called them up, demanded I speak to somebody in charge gave him each RMA number they had given me and the serial number from each monitor so he could see the history of my dealing with them and then berated him for about half an hour on how unacceptable this level of service was and how disappointed I was cause I use to think that NEC was good brand.

I then went out and bought a pair of 19" Samsung LCD's. I now warn everyone who comes to me about computer advice about getting NEC's. Consider yourself warned.

[Saulot]

Huh, I had a NEC for about 5 years, some 5-10 years ago. No problems. Now I have a dell CRT on my old computer, and a mitsubishi CRT on my new one. I still like CRT's, but these days LCD's are so cheap that there's no reason not to get one. Frankly though, you're not the first person I've heard that complained about NEC's. I think the brand overall /was/ quite good and went down in the last few years. Also, monitors from even the same brand will vary significantly in quality.

It's always a good idea to both go for quality, and look up reviews/complaints and so forth online on anything that's a long-term electronic investment like a monitor, tv, speakers, etc.

[deadboi]

Oh I agree completely NEC use to be a good brand and I have old 9" NEC MultiSync 2A hooked up to my server that's still going strong. That was the reason I went with them when I originally bought them and I had reviewed them and hadn't seen any complaints it was all up and up, great product, etc. That's why I was so disappointed when these ones died so quickly and then they just kept sending me more broken monitors.

I don't know what their LCD's are like but their CRT department has defiantly gone down hill. Most likely with the growing market for LCD's and the shrinking market for CRT's they just don't put the effort into them like they use to. After going though 4 pairs of monitors in a row and still ending up with nothing more then a pair boat anchors however, they earned themselves a place on my black list.

But enough of my high jacking of the thread to rant about NEC.

To Aleph, after re-reading your posts I'm thinking it's more likely a graphics card/driver issue. So the next step would be to do as Foodstamp suggested and reinstall the graphics drivers.

Some General Questions:
What operating system are you running?
What kind of graphics card do you have?
Are you running any kind of so called "graphics optimizing" software provided by the manufacture or a third party?
Are you running Dominions and NWN in the same resolution?
Are you running your desktop in a different resolution then Dominions and NWN?
Approximately how long were you playing Dominions/NWN before it happened?
In both Dominions and NWN was it only the text that was affected and everything else was fine?
Did you have to exit Dominions and NWN for it to go away or were you able to just alt-tab?


That's all I can think of off the top of my head right now.