Dennis the Peasant: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
My friend just had a similar issue. His DDO was working fine and then he swapped characters (still fine), entered a quest, and changed his gamma settings to be brighter. Then he crashed multiple times (with a memory type error), his FPS went to super ****, and wasn't able to fiddle with gamma anymore. He tried restarting DDO and his laptop, zippo. Nothing updating in the background, nothing funny going on in task manager. He eventually fixed it by removing and reinstalling his graphic card drivers.
Mains - Messam, Indalecio, Mozenrath, Quackerjack.