I've submited this to Support a few weeks ago, but haven't heard from them since.

Basically, the brightness slider in ViM Redemption settings doesn't have any effect, the game stays quite dark. Any ideas on how to fix it?

My gfx card is Nvidia GeForce GTX 950 with the latest drivers.

This is a known issue in Windows 10, but it works fine in Windows 7.

I am glad I played Redemption in Windows 7. I don't expect there will be a fix for this.

With Win10, I think your best bet now is to use the dgVoodoo wrapper (version WIP41 on website http://www.dege.freeweb.hu/ - forum: https://www.vogons.org/viewforum.php?f=59 ).

You can use it in at least two ways. I just drop the files from its 'MS' folder in the game's directory (along with 'vampire.exe') and use the dgVoodoo control panel (dgVoodooCpl.exe) to add the game dir. from the top bar, but you could also drop the files and the CP in the game directory and click on ' .\ ' to directly add the path.

Now try the game again, by default the dgVoodoo logo should show up in the bottom right corner (you can deactivate it from the CP). This means the wrapper works for the game, so go ahead and try the brightness setting. If everything works fine, you can use the CP again (check that the game path at the top is the right one, otherwise you're tweaking the general profile): for example you can easily increase the resolution way above the game's native support, for a sharp picture (along with a still readable interface, which will scale with the game's chosen resolution, very useful for those hard to decipher UIs in some games set to hires). If something goes wrong, try turning off any filter from there, or the 'Behavior' settings. Vampire Redemption is a DirectX game, so the Glide tab is useless.

Otherwise I posted a solution about that some time ago, but it doesn't seem to work anymore ( https://www.gog.com/forum/vampire_the_masquerade_series/brightness/post11 - Microsoft does seem to have added a bunch of compatibility settings lately, but I've found none that works for Redemption, or when it does (DXPrimaryemul. and its parameter), it makes the game harder to shut down). The Age of Redemption mod's DirectX9 setting doesn't help for brightness either, but it's been updated recently and is certainly worth a look anyway!

Note: other wrappers may work too, like DxWnd or WINED3D, but to begin with dgVoodoo is more likely to work as is and isn't too hard to set up.

I know this is an old topic but I am trying to learn how to use dgvoodoo and for the life of me... I can't. I followed the steps but I can't get it to work. No watermark no matter what I do... so the wrapper isn't activating somehow....

Have you copied the dll files from the 3Dfx (for Glide) or MS (for DirectX) folders to the game directory?

from the MS folder. Do I need to use the x86 dll files as well? I have a 64bit system....

I believe so. Excepting D3D9.dll, as you're presumably using the one from the x64 folder.

Edit:
Found this on the dgVoodoo 2 site:
"You may also need D3DRM.dll (Direct3D Retained mode) for some games and demos."
The site then has a link for that file. So, if the above doesn't work, you can also try that.

it worked after putting the files from the x86 folder in it as well. Thanks for the help!

I've tried using dgvoodoo 2554. it works but i dont have the redemption.ini file. downloaded AOR mod. problem is voodoo solves brigtness problem but silver mines boss doesent appear, ive tried to re install and same issue first brightness then boss. I can play the game "good" but i dont want to get blind.

Thanks