[Bug]Gamma Correction is lost when tabbing out or setting any preferences

[ClavisN]

This bug is actually pretty old - It crept up sometime in summer 2012.

 

I have an ATI card and use Windows XP SP3.

 

I play with gamma setting at 80.

 

Now whenever I al-tab out of the game and back in, or whenever I change any preferences setting not in the graphics tab, the game engine falls back to using default gamma. It gets very dark. The only way to fix this is restart the whole game, or go into preferences and pseudo-change the gamma value. So I change it from 79 to 80, or vice versa, and suddenly everything is back to normal.

 

This used to work fine for the first half year of the game (I joined at launch), but got messed up somewhere in the ramp-up for free2play.