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December 27th, 2007 06:00
Setting Gamma
Hi there,
Trust that Santa brought you all your worldly desires. He brought me exactly what I wanted, a Handy Dandy Magic Dialamatic Sponge Sharpener!
But here's the thing. How does one set a correct Gamma point? I admit that I don't have a monitor profiling gadget and am thinking of buying one, but there are a lot of web based tools that can help one get close to correct calibration.
When I check them, my monitor seems to have a different gamma with each one. It is a Dell 20" 2007 WFP UltraSharp and is too bright when the ATI Raedon X1300 graphics card is set to 1.8. I have it set to 1 and it looks fine; I can see all shades of gray from black to white, but checking other gamma setting web sites, I am way off.
Checked the ATI driver update and see that my driver file is very old, even though the computer is only seven months old. I have Catalyst Control Centre Version 1.11.0.0 , the current versions are 7.8.****. How come a seven month old computer would be delivered with so old drivers? Would this affect my gamma point?
Know this is a very, very difficult (gray?) area but grateful for any advice.
Many thanks,
Rex
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Trust that Santa brought you all your worldly desires. He brought me exactly what I wanted, a Handy Dandy Magic Dialamatic Sponge Sharpener!
But here's the thing. How does one set a correct Gamma point? I admit that I don't have a monitor profiling gadget and am thinking of buying one, but there are a lot of web based tools that can help one get close to correct calibration.
When I check them, my monitor seems to have a different gamma with each one. It is a Dell 20" 2007 WFP UltraSharp and is too bright when the ATI Raedon X1300 graphics card is set to 1.8. I have it set to 1 and it looks fine; I can see all shades of gray from black to white, but checking other gamma setting web sites, I am way off.
Checked the ATI driver update and see that my driver file is very old, even though the computer is only seven months old. I have Catalyst Control Centre Version 1.11.0.0 , the current versions are 7.8.****. How come a seven month old computer would be delivered with so old drivers? Would this affect my gamma point?
Know this is a very, very difficult (gray?) area but grateful for any advice.
Many thanks,
Rex
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Take care, take it easy and don't forget to smell the flowers!
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DELL-Chris M
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December 30th, 2007 19:00
Dell video card drivers are several generations older than the retail drivers. Did you check our website for a newer video card driver?
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Rekusu26
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December 31st, 2007 05:00
Yes, I have up-graded from the ATI/Radeon site but everything still looks the same. Can see all shades of gray on the black to white gray-scale on any of the various gamma checking web sites, the best being http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/#.
So many be there is no problem, just me being paranoid.
Rex