Anthony R Sanna <asanna@ismaldo.com>: His situation is also complicated by his graphics card which is a Nvidia GeForce GTX 960, which I gather is a higher end gaming card. He’s on a PC and the Nvidea has its own control panel to set the parameters for the display.
First...which OS is he running--hopefully not Win10 (ugh!)? I'm running a Win7 (pro/64bit) system with a NVIDIA GeForce GT740--I don't game so I'm clueless as to what's necessary for gaming. I have set the NVIDIA Display Driver Service to "manual" and the NVIDIA Stereoscopic Driver Service to "disabled"--via Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services: then scroll down the alphabetical list looking for "nvidia", highlight the item, right-click, choose "Properties", click on the "Stop" button if necessary, change the "Startup" type via the dropdown menu. Note that on a previous system, I had uninstalled all NVIDIA's 3D Vision stuff but on my current system, I've never gotten around to doing that and setting the 3D Service to disabled works just as well. I use a DataColor Spyder to calibrate my monitor. Works nicely and I'd recommend it--there are other hardware calibrators but I've never used them.
His original question to me was “why are my prints always too dark” when he claims to have the display set at 700cd/m2.
I generally set my Spyder calibration parameters using the following: Gamma=2.2, Temp/White Point=6500k, Brightness=120cd/m2. Prints too dark can be a profile (print setting) problem--if using Photohop, what monitor profile is he using (I use a variation of BruceRBG) and if he's not calibrated his monitor, he's lucky to get anything useful when printing...'-}} Hope the above proves useful... Terrie tlbtlb@mail.com