Vista Callibration

DB
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doug_bibo
Oct 7, 2008
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Hi. I’m running Vista-64, an NVidia 7600(?) series video card. When I was calibrating with an X-rite Pulse System I "solved" the LUT dumping issue by removing an NVidia item from my start-up. Now I have switched over to the i1 photo calibration system (same company)and my monitor profile is regularly getting kicked to the curb again, even without those items in the start up. Telling Vista to "associate" it with the monitor seem to help. but not much. Any Ideas? I’m way too lazy to recalibrate every startup.

Thanks,
Doug

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Freeagent
Oct 8, 2008
removing an NVidia item

There were three on my system (also nVidia), so make sure you get rid of them all. None of them are needed for anything remotely useful, and the basic driver will not be affected.

What you’re describing should work, and it shouldn’t be necessary to involve Vista in anything.

But I’m using ColorEyes Display Pro, so I can’t speak for the Eye One.
DB
doug_bibo
Oct 8, 2008
Thanks. I’ll check to make sure I got all those pesky things when I get home tonight.
DB
doug_bibo
Oct 9, 2008
All three little aps are disabled. I stopped letting my machine sleep and went to a full shutdown. that seems to have helped.
thanks.
C
camey
Oct 9, 2008
There was an update from the Windows Color Group that fixed this problem in general. It requires that you have SP1 installed, and you also need to disable all three NVidia startup apps as previously suggested. Note that if you installed the Beta of SP1 you wont get the update, you have to uninstall the Beta and install the RTM version. I suffered with this problem for well over a year until they finally fixed it. I’ve seen posts from other people that the fix works for x64 versions of Vista too.

In the event that fails you don’t need to recalibrate, just reload the lookup tables and there is a free app available from Gretag Macbeth that will do this for you.

< http://neosmart.net/downloads/miscellania/DisplayProfile.zip>

Failing that use a monitor from Eizo, or an NEC Spectraview that has the internal color calibration tables, and then you wont have to worry about what Vista is doing anymore.

My system is Vista Ultimate(32 bit)/Nvidia 7600GS/NEC 3090WQXi
DB
doug_bibo
Oct 10, 2008
Thanks. I believe I have SP1, don’t think its the Beta. I’ll check this out over the weekend. Thanks again.

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