Viewsonic Perfect Suite woes

[geepondy]

Received monitor today and installed driver and Perfect Suite software. Went into the Perfect Suite and performed a calibration. As users know, the idea is to make the gray square disappear into the background as close as possible under the various conditions the program produces. Well in none of the conditions could I come close to making it disappear but in all cases, moved the slider to approximately halfway between middle and bottom as to my eyes that seem to be the closest. When finished I was not pleased with the end result but saved the file as the default anyway and rebooted pc. This is where the problems began. Upon reboot and Perfect Suite settings loading over half of the right part of the screen became black and half of image displayed on the left half was what normally would be displayed on the right. Maybe a sync problem, not sure but when I cycled power monitor picture became normal but I thought much darker then I had set it. I open up the Perfect Suite software and lo and behold for whatever reason the brightness setting was at it's lowest. As far as I know, I never set it that low. So I raise it and try to save it when the program crahses, taking along with it explorer in which I had no choice but to hard reboot the pc. Again as the program loads, I get the half black screen. By now I've seen enough to realize I don't really wish experiment with the Viewsonic Perfect Suite software anymore so I uninstall it. Oh also, the OSD became non-functional until I pulled the plug on the monitor and reinserted.

So for now, I have the brightness set on 70, Contrast on 100 and color temperature set to 6500k. I was wondering what settings other users used for this monitor, did you have any problem with the Perfect Suite software or know the cause of mine and/or did you use alternative software to make calibrations and image adjustments?

 

[will889]

I had an older A90-F that used that S/W on and hated it. It just never worked correctly for my tastes. So I just download the actual monitor driver for the INF files for color and refresh rates and used 9300K on color or self adjusted it. I still have one CRT (Sony) along with a few LCD's, and on the Sony CRT I use 9300K as well, and contrast is 100 and brightness is 50. I then do into my ATI control panel to the color tab and raise gamma-brightness-contrast just a bit from default. But I definitely would not run your monitor at 6500k -- to me that looks lifeless and dull and very yellowish. Usually even 9300K was a bit dull to me and I set it to custom as:

R=88
G=78
B=93

 

[geepondy]

Will889, your suggested settings undoubtedly would be an improvement as well but I found these settings a poster had submitted in another forum after a spyder had calibrated this monitor although I think an older revision then the current rev 3. It certainly was a big improvement over anything I have tried before or any of the preset color temperatures. I did up the brightness and contrast just a tad from what was suggested here but more then likely that is a result of my poor eyesight as opposed to a less then ideal setting. I'm certainly glad I purchased this monitor over a Samsung 971P or similar model that doesn't have OSD.

set red - 92
set green - 92
set blue - 100
set contrast - 56
set brigthness - 52

 

[will889]

Sounds great. That setting should also help you see the screen better too.

 

[geepondy]

The pictures look good and as far as I I can the flesh tones look realistic but upon viewing text on a document or web page, it looks decidedly a bit cool. Is this normal in a properly calibrated monitor and I'm just used to an overly warm CRT?

 

[will889]

Probably so. If your monitor will let you set up color profiles you could do that. You can also set profiles in driver configuration (ati and nvida). Also i'm not sure if your monitor is an apeture grill model but if it is there may be a function called "gaming mode" -- on my sony trinitron it's called "picture effect" and that really brightens it up the screen you could make sure that's not enabled. other than that if it bothers you just switch to a profile you set up when viewing text. After going cool There's not way I can go back to warm I know that. I guess it's about what you're used to.