Nvidia Desktop Colour Settings - Hue (Something strange happening)

Ocean Breeze · 7 Nov 2015 at 11:14

I have a new monitor and I am trying to get the blacks as dark as possible and reduce glow.

I have noticed that if you go into the Nvidia control panel, Adjust Desktop Colours and set it to use Nvidia settings. The hue will be 0. If I drag the slider all the way to the right so its at 359 and then back to the left to 0 again, the screen is much darker and with less glow.

What I am trying to say is that the 0 setting after you move the slider is different. Anyone else find this?

Also when I restart the PC the settings are the same as I left them, but the screen looks crap again, as if I didn't adjust the Nvidia settings. If I fiddle with the settings (move sliders) and then put them at the values I like, the screen looks good and how it was before a restarted the PC.

Any solutions to this?

Thanks

PCM2 · 7 Nov 2015 at 11:23

That is curious behaviour. But be aware that all of the settings in the Nvidia Control Panel are digital and affect the GPU. They have no effect on the backlight of the monitor. They therefore do not affect pure black and should not have an effect on backlight bleed or glow. They can only make 'near black' shades darker, but that causes loss of detail due to shade crushing and isn't generally desirable.

wunkley · 7 Nov 2015 at 12:11

^^ What he said. That does sound very odd though.

Not that I'm saying you should, but I've taken to using 'Color Profile Keeper' to get my current mix and match of screens running as they should and as near to each other in calibration as damn possible.

old gamer · 7 Nov 2015 at 13:22

never heard of colour profile keeper, will that force games to use a icc profile

wunkley · 7 Nov 2015 at 13:39

old gamer said:
never heard of colour profile keeper, will that force games to use a icc profile

Not as such, there there are progs out there that try to do that. From my investigations it's largely hit and miss depending on the game.

What Color Profile Keeper does (and I'm spelling colour wrong which irks me, but that's what it's called

) is....

it sorts out the problem that some games and full screen progs mess with your icc profiles (if you use them) when you launch and exit them. Without using CPK my desktop will sometimes revert to the default profiles and I effectively lose my calibration of my 2 main monitors (Dell IPS ultrawide and TN Rog Swift) Which I spent a looooong time getting as perfect and near to each other as humanly possible.

I wrote a massive guide on these forums about a year or so ago, will see if I can find it....

EDIT - Here it is http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=27360609&postcount=11