Steve Moore-Vale

Well it’s definitely something nvidia is doing. Looks great in safe mode. Looks great when I get back into windows after ddu and then I install nvidia driver (studiodriver only- not installing GeForce experience) andnas soon as driver installation completes it changes back to looking horrible. Don’t get why it’s changing it.

Thanks. I’ll try that. It updates the nvidia drivers all the time. I built the system with the 2060 so it’s the only card it’s ever had. It’s an amd system (ryzen 2700x) but nvidia graphics. Just went onto nvidias site site to download the drivers and found that they’d do a studio driver. I’m a photographer and apparently 5id is designed for that use. I’ve been using game ready drivers for years. Don’t know if that would make a difference.

Hi. Ive been thinking that my display looks wrong for quite a while now, lacks contrast, over brightened shadows etc. I connected my old Mac and compared the Mojave wallpaper on both Mac and pc connected to the same monitor. Windows version looked horrible and the mac one looked great. Both inputs were setup to 100 cd/m 6500k gamma 2.2 srgb. Yet they looked different. My windows pc is running an RTX 2060. I found out my card was in a 16x slot running at 8x so I’ve sorted that and now have it running at 16x. I decided to start windows into safe mode and voila. The picture looks great so my question is where on earth do I start digging to find the issue which clearly is software/setting related. Must be something loading after windows starts that ruins it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I may be over thinking this but I’ve had an idea to test this and I wonder whether you think it may work. I have another monitor in the loft. I am able to connect both monitors to my pc so if I connect them both and set the other one to 120cd/m and then use my cameras exposure meter to take a reading off my existing monitor (making sure it is exposed correctly) and then move it over to the other monitor, my cameras light meter should tell me if the second monitor is brighter, darker or the same. And I would do it in a dark room. Would that work as a test? EDIT: I tried it and they matched. I took an exposure reading from my second monitor after I set it to 120cd/m. using manual mode I got the exposure meter to dead centre whilst pointing my camera at a blank word document (nice white background). I then switched to my main monitor and repeated the test and both exposures on the white word document were an exact match.

Thanks for your reply. I can try it in a completely dark room but I deliberately calibrated in an environment that matched what I would be working in normally. I made sure there was no obvious intense light falling onto the monitor but of course I can’t be entirely sure what light it was seeing other than the monitors own backlight it was measuring.

Hi. I have been spending quite some time today trying to calibrate my monitor correctly, mainly for photography work. I am now satisfied that my colour and contrast are correct. However, when setting my brightness level, I decided to go with what seemed like a general photography standard of 120cd/m2 but when I did the calibration using my Spyder 4 colorimeter it told me that with 120 set on the monitor it was actually measuring over 130. To get the readout from the colorimeter to be 120 I had to lower it on the monitor to 106. I know monitors are supposed to lose brightness over time but this one seems to be gaining brightness. Has anyone had this before? Colorimeter measurement issue perhaps? The monitor is an eizo coloredge cs230 and quote old now. I have had it for several years. Is there another method I can use to verify what the brightness actually is? I do have an old spyder colorimeter I could install that may be able to provide a ‘second opinion’.