Posted by Rand Herman on September 10, 2008 at 5:22 PM
I'm working on a HP Pavillion with Windows Vista 64 Bit. I've completed the monitor calibration using the i1 Display unit, but I don't see any change from the previous to calibrated version. In fact the post I had earlier of the sunrise on the Sangre De Christo range had a yellow cast on one monitor and a more natural color on the other. This was after calibration. I've heard that some programs have to run in administrator mode to operate properly. Have any of you had similar problems with color calibration on Windows Vista?
Posted by bill meikle on September 10, 2008 at 5:29 PM
Rand I have been having some problems too, some programs eg browsers arent color calibrated, others are and seem to give different results, I think Photoshop is the only one I trust right now. Even Bridge gives different looking images.
Posted by PHEROLD on September 11, 2008 at 2:01 PM
It is best to run Vista in administrator mode.
There are a number of things that might contribute to why you're not seeing a change. There is an issue with Vista where it dims the screen while bringing up an administrator-privilege dialog box. Once you have entered the information, the screen goes 'back to normal' except that it really isn't back to normal. It has lost the color adjustments that the profile gave the graphics card.
I believe the i1 Match software has a program called "CalibrationLoader.exe". It might be buried in a folder in your program files. This will load the color back into your graphics card. All you do is double click that .exe file, it just takes a second - and the color from your current profile for your monitor will be loaded into the graphics card. That's a good way to make sure that you're actually looking through the correct monitor profile.
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2 repliesThere are a number of things that might contribute to why you're not seeing a change. There is an issue with Vista where it dims the screen while bringing up an administrator-privilege dialog box. Once you have entered the information, the screen goes 'back to normal' except that it really isn't back to normal. It has lost the color adjustments that the profile gave the graphics card.
Here is an old report on this. SP1 for Vista has not resolved this problem, so it exists still.
http://www.colorwiki.com/wiki/Vistas_New_Color_Management_System_-_WCS
I believe the i1 Match software has a program called "CalibrationLoader.exe". It might be buried in a folder in your program files. This will load the color back into your graphics card. All you do is double click that .exe file, it just takes a second - and the color from your current profile for your monitor will be loaded into the graphics card. That's a good way to make sure that you're actually looking through the correct monitor profile.