Monitor Calibration

Dr. Perillux · Post by **Dr. Perillux** » 23 Jun 2009, 00:20

I am having trouble calibrating my monitor.

When using online calibration tools such as this one http://www.displaycalibration.com/color_depth.html
no matter what I do I can't seem to make the color steps evenly spaced.
On the right side there is very clear distinction between the darker colors, but on the left side I can barely even tell the difference between the colors.
It seems like no matter what settings I change I cannot get it to show a distinction between those colors... Any ideas?

I have an asus vh226h

Post by **Ryom** » 23 Jun 2009, 03:24

That's a lousy chart. This site will serve you much better: http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/index.php

If you still can't see a difference, turn your brightness down a bit. If you have individual color channel modifiers, use them.

Dr. Perillux · Post by **Dr. Perillux** » 23 Jun 2009, 05:13

Actually I think I got it.
I noticed "saturation" was greyed out. But this monitor has several presets and in "normal" mode the saturation isn't available.
I switched to "game" mode and the colors look a lot better after messing with saturation.
That site does help a lot too, especially with gamma, thanks.

Post by **Ryom** » 23 Jun 2009, 06:23

Generally you'll want to set your monitor to the standard mode and work from there. All these different "modes" are generally just camouflage for a poor panel.

There should be exactly two modes. PC mode and Movie mode. The later being set for the compressed RGB values of DVDs and a lower ambient light level. The movie mode should get almost no use as your DVD software should handle it natively. But I suppose it would be nice to have just in case. Once properly calibrated, your display should look excellent no matter what is on screen; be it games, text, or movies.

karnak · Post by **karnak** » 24 Jun 2009, 22:36

Calibrize can also be a useful program.

Widescreen Gaming Forum