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NightBlade

#1 April 08, 2008, 04:05:04 am

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I have a bit of an odd question for you tonight.

I've had this LCD monitor for awhile, I know the colors are kind of washed out on it, so usually I use this little device my brother has. It's a auto color calibration thing that fixes the colors on the LCD so they don't look so washed out (while retaining the same colors for games)

I recently acquired my new graphics card, (recently as in last week) and I lost the calibration settings in the process. It occurs to me that the calibration program is kind of annoying; it takes sytem memory and sometimes it doesn't shift to the proper colors when going back to the desktop (example: I play some TF2, after I'm done, I exist the program and the colors are all washed out again. I have to launch WoW and close it in order to get the good color again)

So, with that rambling out of the way It's time for the question. Isn't there some way to simply manually calibrate my LCD's color without the need of this annoying program / device?

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Bondo

#2 April 08, 2008, 09:13:59 am

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First, we could use some information on what graphics card you have.

Second, you should be able to use the NVidia control panel, or the ATI whateverit'scalled to adjust your color setting manually. I don't know about ATI, but I do know that NVidia allows you to set individual color settings for each program or game if you so desire.

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NightBlade

#3 April 08, 2008, 10:49:21 pm

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130318

this is what I have.

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goat

#4 April 09, 2008, 01:43:00 am

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What is the name of this program? Could be doing something as simple as adjusting gamma/brightness for darker/lighter scenes to simulate a higher contrast ratio.

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Bondo

#5 April 09, 2008, 09:39:32 am

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At the risk of accidentally treating you like a brainless infant (Not my intention, I assure you.) I'm going to explain this step by step, assuming you know nothing. If you're much smarter than this, just ignore what you already know, and follow the instructions you don't.

You have an NVidia card, so you will be using the Nvidia control panel, which has been in existence since a few years ago.

1: Right click on your desktop, and click NVidia Control Panel. If you don't see that option, update your graphics card drivers and try again.

2: There should be three "tasks" to your left. Expand the "Display" task, and click on "Run display optimization wizard."

3: Follow the directions. Your display should now be perfectly calibrated.

4: If you want finer or more manual control over the calibration, click "adjust desktop color settings" under the "display" task.

5: If this is completely different from what you were thinking, and I just wasted this whole post, then please explain what it is you want to achieve again, only different.

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