Re: Gamma values on Windows XP
Re: Gamma values on Windows XP
- Subject: Re: Gamma values on Windows XP
- From: "Bob Frost" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:11:24 -0000
Karl,
What graphics card are you using? The lastest nVidia cards (GeForce 4600 for
example) overwrite the values after they have been set by programs in
Startup. The workaround is to move the LUT loader from Startup to the
desktop, and run it manually after all bootup loading has finished.
Bob Frost.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Petersson" <email@hidden>
To: <email@hidden>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 3:27 PM
Subject: Gamma values on Windows XP
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I have been running into a problem with pc's running Win XP, and yes I am
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aware that there has been many comments on this forum on the problems of
CM
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on XP. But this is one that I have not seen mentioned before.
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I profiled some machines using a Eye one monitor and set the gamma
settings
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to use the Mac default setting ie 1.8 since we are in the newspaper
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printing side and using warm white 5000 k. I had the possibility of
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comparing a mac running classic and profiled 10 minutes earlier with the
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same eye1 and the pc. The result was very satisfiying and I thought that
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all was good. But after the computer went to sleep later and also was
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rebooted and relogged into, yes I did try it a couple of times the gamma
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value must have jumped up to 2.2 a since the result was considerably
darker
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and my conclusion was that the default gamma was kicked back somehow to
2.2
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rather then the 1.8 I told eye1 to use. The result ofcourse also is that I
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had no change when I profiled to a windows standard but then the display
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was to dark compared with the mac setup. Does anybody know how to change
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the default of XP to my 1.8 and get it to stay there. I did get the
monitor
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driver from the manufacturer but this gave me no option to do this and
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thereby overturn the operating system settings, I did also through out the
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Gamma loader from Adobe that gets installed with photoshop, this is
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something I am used to do when creating profiles on the pc's but I am now
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thingking that this might be a way of turing this back and maybe give me
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some controll over the gamma setting.
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Please anybody out there who can give me some healthy advice on my very
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frustrating problem.
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