I am running two Samsung 193P+ on Vista. I have made a profile for each monitor, but I they do not look the same. The second monitor is brighter and I canīt find a way to adjust them. Can you give me a hand?
Any other with problem profiling two monitors in Vista.
Not all calibration kits are fully Vista compatible and not all are capable of calibrating dual monitors in Vista. You will need to state what calibration kit you are using to help you further.
Eye One Display old, Eye One Display LT, Eye One Display2?
Eye One Display LT and Eye One Display2 support dual monitor matching. If your software version and colorimeter support Vista, have you tried redoing the whole process to see if you missed something? I don't use Eye One software, only the colorimeter, so I don't know how much I can help you.
If you have one display adapter...Most "Dual Head" video cards use one video controller to control both displays and share video RAM. This will give you one profile only. Cards that have this hardware configuration are typically, 1 DVI, 1 VGA.
There are some upper end video cards that will have dual display controllers on board. Current models will most likely have 2 DVI connectors, but you can still have two DVI with only one controller, so it is not a guarantee.
Does your computer show one or two display adapters in the device manager?
Thanks a lot for your help. I hoped that it was me, who was doing something wrong.
My computer is a Dell Dimensionh DXP061 with a NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS grafic card, which have two DVI connections.
The computer shows, that I have connected two SyncMaster193PplusCX911P(digital) in the device manager.
I am using the old Eye One Display calibrator.
A serch on google says: MSI COMPUTER GeForce 8600GTS 256 MB DDR3 PCI-E Graphics Card .... Dual independent display controllers support true 30-bpp throughout the display pipe
Have had a look at the different versions from Gretag Machbeth and it looks as if it will cost severel K$.
Do you have any experience with the Spider, which seems to be much cheaper. The Spyder2PRO cost arround 165$. Here are some specs:
* The award-winning Spyder2 colorimeter attaches to any screen: LCD, CRT, or laptop
* Professional monitor calibration software guides you through the entire calibration process
* Printer profiling software helps give you precise color results for your prints, without a scanner
* Multiple monitor calibration and matching allows you to calibrate and profile multiple monitors on a single system or across an entire studio
* Hardware and software are both compatible with front projectors, so you can calibrate your images for presentations
The i1Display2 is only like $225 US and does dual display calibration. It's only when you get into the Eye-One Pro line you start really upping the ante in cost. Due to its success, i1Display2 is also being OEM's (rebranded) by HP etc...
I used Spyders in the past and moved to GTMB/Xrite. Even though I own an Eye-One Photo SG system, I keep an i1Display2 around too. It's very solid.
Unless both of your monitors are identical ($2K+) graphics monitors I wouldn't expect exact matching. You will have to pick one for your standard. I use the xRite DTP94 (best of the low cost HockPucks) with German Software (BasicCorlor Display) to calibrate my 5 monitors (3 graphics cards).
