LCD Display Optimization?

[Gillbot]

I am running dual 19" LCD's and since switching to an Nvidia Quadro based video card, my displays just don't look right. They have a little haze in the text and the colors seem off. I have gone through nivida's display setup and I can get the sharpness back but then the gamma/brightness looks a little off.

Is there a utility program I can use to dial the settings in so that my display and graphics card will play nice with each other?

 

[xtknight]

The undisputed best option would be a calibrator, but they are upwards of $100 or more. You can try displaying a few select tones (reference points) on each LCD and then use the user controls in the OSD to adjust red/green/blue channels. As long as they're the same model (and revision) you should be able to get them reasonably close to each other. I would try and adjust black level and white level independently, i.e. set brightness to 0, contrast to 0, show a black screen and raise the brightness of one LCD to match the other. Then show a white screen and raise or lower the contrast of one LCD to match the other. Then do the same for the primaries. It may be easier to do cyan, magenta, and yellow (these are just the subtractives of red, green, and blue) since they are easier to see. I have a program here that can display black, white, the primaries, and CMY:

http://lcdresource.com/tools/screen-test.exe (press enter to change screen, esc to exit)

You may want to follow this article as well but you'll do fine if you follow the instructions above.