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7900gs color profile for second monitor

post #1 of 4
9/12/06 at 10:44pm
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I'm using a Spyder2 Pro to profile my LCD and a second monitor for use in photo and video editing. I get a decent profile for each but the Nvidia driver insists on using the same profile for both monitors.

Has anyone had sucess hooking up a second monitor and using a separate color profile for that monitor? I have a decent CRT that has a better color gamut than the LCD that I'd prefer to use for photo editing.

System is Inspiron e1705 with the WUXGA TrueLife screen and 7900gs vid card. NVidia driver appears to be 5.71,22,16.13 Forceware 84.29 Ver 2.2 Spyder2 Pro software.

Anyone know if the 84.63 forceware fixes this? Should I uninstall the old driver first or does the new install clean on top? The problem might be the Spyder software, I've never used it on a dual monitor setup. The calibration software runs fine but once I close that app the vid driver reverts back to a single profile. LCD profile is pretty ugly on the CRT.

-RC
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post #2 of 4
9/13/06 at 12:09am
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Originally Posted by lapbot
I'm using a Spyder2 Pro to profile my LCD and a second monitor for use in photo and video editing. I get a decent profile for each but the Nvidia driver insists on using the same profile for both monitors.

Has anyone had sucess hooking up a second monitor and using a separate color profile for that monitor? I have a decent CRT that has a better color gamut than the LCD that I'd prefer to use for photo editing.

System is Inspiron e1705 with the WUXGA TrueLife screen and 7900gs vid card. NVidia driver appears to be 5.71,22,16.13 Forceware 84.29 Ver 2.2 Spyder2 Pro software.

Anyone know if the 84.63 forceware fixes this? Should I uninstall the old driver first or does the new install clean on top? The problem might be the Spyder software, I've never used it on a dual monitor setup. The calibration software runs fine but once I close that app the vid driver reverts back to a single profile. LCD profile is pretty ugly on the CRT.

-RC
Hello,

Yes you can use two profiles. I have the spyder2 also, and I profiled both my CRT and my LCD and the colors on both monitors are great. First you profile your notebook LCD using your video cards color correction color channels (red, green and blur) through your spyder2 software, and name it so you will know that it is for your LCD (LCD_Spyder2). Then you check that it is associated with your LCD. Then you do the same with your CRT connected to your notebook, also give it a name (CRT_Spyder2). Then check that it is associated to the CRT.
Now when you boot your notebook without the CRT it will load the LCD profile. Then when your boot with the CRT, you open profile chooser in the spyder2 program group and choose the CRT, and it will go to the CRT profile.
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post #3 of 4
9/13/06 at 6:41pm
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Ah yes, Profile Chooser. That works great. I'd forgotten about that utility that came with the Spyder2 Pro software.

Thanks for the tip,
RC
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post #4 of 4
9/14/06 at 1:32am
Go search Microsoft for a PowerToy called Image Color Management or something like that. You can have both profiles going on at once with the 2 screens.
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