People who are saying that games will reset your LUT / ICC profile no matter what are very very very wrong! Some games today, like BF4, even allow the use of a 1D LUT / ICC profile in normal Fullscreen Mode. I tried many many games with it and only one wouldn't work - Shadow Warrior. It forces them to use such a mode, removes borders, and aligns pixels perfectly with your monitor. It works really well for programs that do not support the Windowed Fullscreen Mode. Neither program is going to work for all games, which is why you also need "Windowed Borderless Gaming" program. The best programs to lock your profile are "Monitor Calibration Wizard" (MCW), which I think is the best, and "CPKeeper", which I didn't like as it wasn't as forceful as MCW. I managed to get almost all the games to run with a custom profile (ICC or LUT) through Borderless Windowed Mode or Windowed Fullscreen Mode or whichever other names that mode has - they are all the same thing. You answer that it is meaningless and that most gamers prefer uncalibrated color to a profiled display. OP asked about how to use x-rite software. They actually aren't the same thing, though. Is there some "gamer" color opinion poll we can reference to answer that last question? What does over-saturated mean to you? I'm guessing your definition of over-saturated is remarkably close to incorrect colorspace. So you've made two widely sweeping generalizations about "gamers": that they don't have decent monitors (your 30" doesn't have sRGB mode so everyone else's doesn't need one either) and that they would prefer over-saturated colors to accurate ones. Most consumer monitors do come with a reasonably neutral color preset available for sRGB, and most have reasonably accurate gamma curves. This 30" ARGB/sRGB stuff is mostly off-topic, anyway-but to be fair, your comment that 99.99% of "gamers" don't have monitors with decent color assumes that 99.99% of gamers don't have an sRGB monitor. Because at the end of the day, whether you have 99.99% accurate sRGB color or not, that shitty CoD game you're playing is not made any less awful by the color profile.nor is Farmville any more realistic. And further most people prefer "vibrant" color presets that their phones use whether it is ZOMG accurate or not. My grainy, glowy, piece of shit, gawd-awful, wide-gamut "unusable" piece of shit 30" monitor even on a bad day is a better panel in color than most kids own.excuse me, better panel than their parents bought them. Even among people who style themselves enthusiasts, there's minimum knowledge about what constitutes a good monitor these days.īesides why are you making this childishly personal? The OP asked why it was meaningless and I told him. Most gamers buy the cheapest monitor that is on sale in a given size class on NewEgg. Ask most gamers what an ICC file is and they'd be clueless. Besides even if they do have them they do not use them. People say the Yamakasi Catleap has a green tint but I don't think mine does, it certainly has a strangely warmish white after being calibrated with the id3 pro. I need to rent an expensive spectrometer and create an error measurement for it or find someone else with the files (you'd think they'd be available but I don't know where to look). So, the probe I'm using to measure things like contrast ratio isn't really calibrated very well itself. The other thing is that the ID3 pro I have (as someone suggested might be the case) thinks white should be slightly pink. It will actually reduce your contrast ratio and again, cause grayscale banding, but this is a realization I'm coming to more lately. More and more I'm realizing that since the Korean monitors tend to have fairly good color, there's zero reason to calibrate them for gaming. I do like having a way to test monitors colors and contrast but that's pretty much the only reason I got a ID3 pro, and if I'd known the extra money was for the software I would have just got a ColorMunki, since I use DispcalGUI+ArgyllCMS Yasamoka's Color Sustainer program is a way to try to endforce color profiles, but often in games it's not really an issue. Different situations like trying to match color temperatures on two different displays.Ī lot of games do allow profiles to work, they just tend to reset the windows profile on loading to fullscreen. Now if you are trying to get information about your monitor, or you use it to make graphic color-sensitive material, etc. For gamers it's really not particularly useful at all. The x-rite software isn't very good and for the most part icc profiles are a tradeoff of color accuracy for gradient banding. White level color temperature, gamma curve etc. If your monitor is way off on colors and has an OSD for red green blue levels and brightness contrast, then the x-rite iprofiler will guide you to adjusting them ballpark towards a proper standard, which you can choose from lots of settings you want to try to achieve.
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