> On Feb 17, 2017, at 12:39 PM, finephotographics@... [datacolor_group] <datacolor_group@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> All the sudden with no changes to Spyder profiles I'm having issues with color on two monitor setup.
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> Display 1 Dell laptop wide gamut laptop monitor. Has blue tint unless Spyder 3 Elite is used.
> Display 2 older, regular gamut Dell e1910
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> Windows 8.1 64 bit Color Management is assigned individual Spyder profiles as default for each display and “Use my settings” is checked for both.
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> Firefox set to be color managed with gfx.color_management.mode set to 1 and gfx.color_management.enablev4;true
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> Display #2 does not color manage Firefox correctly unless display #1 is set to sRGB as the default in Windows Color Management. Somehow display 1 profile is impacting display 2 colors.
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> I can verify this because sites like https://tinyurl.com/gnjlrtg <https://tinyurl.com/gnjlrtg> on display #2 are totally washed out and the navigation dropdowns temporarily display a darker green then pop into the lighter green. Neither of these phenomenon occur on other computers Mac or PC with Firefox color management on.
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> I've seen similar cases of this situation here: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3223881 <https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3223881> but don't know the solution. My only hack is to load the calibrations, then ditch them for sRGB. The monitors look color balanced, but are truly no longer loading the Spyder profiles.
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I have a guess. If you’ve disabled SpyderUtility from running, then yes, the calibration
tables from your profiles won’t be loaded into the video card when you boot your system.
The problem with WIndows, the operating system (all versions) is: it doesn’t load calibration
tables from color profiles into the video card. The ONLY way for this to happen is for an
application to load them.
When you launch Spyder5Elite, it loads them. And they’ll stay in effect until (surprise!) Windows
itself may clobber them. There’s no guarantee that Windows, the operating system; or other
applications, such as games; or other things, such as video card drivers; will leave the calibration
tables untouched. This is, unfortunately, the way that Windows works.
That’s why SpyderUtility for Windows is important. It regularly re-loads the calibration tables
from your profile into the video card. If you quit from it, and/or prevent it from launching and
running in the background when you boot your system or log back into your account, there’s
nothing running that will load the calibration tables, and/or load them again in case something
happens to change or neutralize them.
Short answer: make sure SpyderUtility is running; it will maintain the sanity of calibration on
your system.
Hope that helps!
Best regards,
David Miller
Manager/Lead Developer, Consumer Graphics Software
Datacolor