How to calibrate LCD monitor (LG L194WT) ??
 

I have a PC with a videocard nVidia 7600GT. Few days ago I got an LCD
monitor LG L194WT.

Well, this turned out to be a cheap and nasty monitor. I have
experience with using a higher-class LCD monitor for playing games and
editing digital photographic pictures.

In this monitor on the standard settings, the text in webbrowser is
al'right, however all images are too dark. I tried to adjust the
monitor. First of all, I decreased the brightness to 50% (the monitor
is too bright). Secondly, I went to the video card driver software
("nVidia Control Panel"), and adjusted the gamma running "Display
optimization wizard". Unfortunately, the game Half Life 2 DM is still
too dark. Whatever knobs/settings I twist, it is dark. The monitor has
modes "normal", "user", "text" and "movie"... all of them leave the
images dark.

The only thing left is to go to the nVidia Control Panel, and adjust
gamma within "Desktop color settings". This is very effective, and
brightens the dark tones... however, am I soomed to increase gamma
every time I want play game HL2DM, and decrease it when I go back into
the desktop !?? Are there better ways ? Or, being cheap, the monitor
does not have a high enough dynamic range for adjustment ??

Re: How to calibrate LCD monitor (LG L194WT) ??
 

Beladi Nasralla wrote:

> however, am I soomed to increase gamma
> every time I want play game HL2DM, and decrease it when I go back into
> the desktop !??

Yes.

--
Mike Easter

Re: How to calibrate LCD monitor (LG L194WT) ??
 

On Aug 17, 12:46 am, "Mike Easter" <Mi...@ster.invalid> wrote:
> Beladi Nasralla wrote:
> > however, am I soomed to increase gamma
> > every time I want play game HL2DM, and decrease it when I go back into
> > the desktop !??
>
> Yes.

Why ? I did not have to do it when I was using the laptop. In the
laptop, the pictures in the desktop had a proper tonality, and the
game had proper tonality, too.

Re: How to calibrate LCD monitor (LG L194WT) ??
 

Beladi Nasralla wrote:
> "Mike Easter"
>> Beladi Nasralla wrote:
>>> however, am I soomed to increase gamma
>>> every time I want play game HL2DM, and decrease it when I go back
>>> into the desktop !??
>>
>> Yes.
>
> Why ?

Why are you asking me why?

> I did not have to do it when I was using the laptop. In the
> laptop, the pictures in the desktop had a proper tonality, and the
> game had proper tonality, too.

See? The LT did and the LG L194WT does not. That 'proves' it. One
does, one does not.

Would you care to explain why the LT did?

We are talking about your visual perception difference between two
monitor screens which I cannot see and you want me to explain why your
visual perception in one environment requires a particular kind of
adjustment and not in another.

How zany is that?

--
Mike Easter

Re: How to calibrate LCD monitor (LG L194WT) ??
 

Mike Easter wrote:
> Beladi Nasralla wrote:

Newsgroups: alt.games.half-life, 24hoursupport.helpdesk,
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video, alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,
rec.photo.digital
User-Agent: G2/1.0

>> Why ?
>
> Why are you asking me why?

You are also an excessively crossposting googlegrouper.

You should get a newsreader and a newsserver to post to usenet instead
of using googlegroups, for at least 8 different good reasons; and you
should learn some usenet netiquette about such as unruly crossposting.

--
Mike Easter - anti-crossposter
Any crossposting with which I disagree
has been trimmed away in my own reply

Re: How to calibrate LCD monitor (LG L194WT) ??
 

"Mike Easter" <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote in message
news:46c4713b$0$97264$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readf reenews.net...
> Beladi Nasralla wrote:
>
>> however, am I soomed to increase gamma
>> every time I want play game HL2DM, and decrease it when I go back into
>> the desktop !??
>
> Yes.

Brilliant. One word answers are sooooooo cool.

Re: How to calibrate LCD monitor (LG L194WT) ??
 

On Aug 16, 9:38 am, "Mike Roman" <mikeoro...@loseit.gmail.com> wrote:
> "Mike Easter" <Mi...@ster.invalid> wrote in message
>
> news:46c4713b$0$97264$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readf reenews.net...
>
> > Beladi Nasralla wrote:
>
> >> however, am I soomed to increase gamma
> >> every time I want play game HL2DM, and decrease it when I go back into
> >> the desktop !??
>
> > Yes.
>
> Brilliant. One word answers are sooooooo cool.

Doesnt the game have its own adjustable setting for brightness. There
may be an updated driver from nvidea or LG

Re: How to calibrate LCD monitor (LG L194WT) ??
 

Mike Easter wrote:
>
> You are also an excessively crossposting googlegrouper.
>
> You should get a newsreader and a newsserver to post to usenet instead
> of using googlegroups, for at least 8 different good reasons; and you
> should learn some usenet netiquette about such as unruly crossposting.

Hmmm!

The OP posted about a game (half life) and digital photographs; he was
asking for help/advice with reference to PC hardware, specifically the
nvidea card. Seems to me the cross posts might very well be highly
relevant.

--
Old Codger
e-mail use reply to field

What matters in politics is not what happens, but what you can make
people believe has happened. [Janet Daley 27/8/2003]

Re: How to calibrate LCD monitor (LG L194WT) ??
 

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:17:16 +0100, Old Codger
<oldcodger@anyoldwhere.net> wrote:

>The OP posted about a game (half life) and digital photographs; he was
>asking for help/advice with reference to PC hardware, specifically the
>nvidea card. Seems to me the cross posts might very well be highly
>relevant.

Cross posting is generally frowned upon. That's why.
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Re: How to calibrate LCD monitor (LG L194WT) ??
 

In article <1187278911.276038.268060@j4g2000prf.googlegroups. com>,
Beladi Nasralla says...
> I have a PC with a videocard nVidia 7600GT. Few days ago I got an LCD
> monitor LG L194WT.
>
> Well, this turned out to be a cheap and nasty monitor. I have
> experience with using a higher-class LCD monitor for playing games and
> editing digital photographic pictures.
>
> In this monitor on the standard settings, the text in webbrowser is
> al'right, however all images are too dark. I tried to adjust the
> monitor. First of all, I decreased the brightness to 50% (the monitor
> is too bright). Secondly, I went to the video card driver software
> ("nVidia Control Panel"), and adjusted the gamma running "Display
> optimization wizard". Unfortunately, the game Half Life 2 DM is still
> too dark. Whatever knobs/settings I twist, it is dark. The monitor has
> modes "normal", "user", "text" and "movie"... all of them leave the
> images dark.
>

I have no issues. Must be you.

--
Conor

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein