R3 1080p WLED calibration?

So I just received my R3 today. Overall, I love it. It's quite honestly a beautiful machine and the performance (specs in sig) is more than I could have ever hoped for.

The only complaint I have is the screen. It's far from the worst I've used, but it ain't my beloved RGB either. I find the stock settings in CCC to be far too dark and muddy, so I bumped the gamma to 1.10, the brightness to 10, and the contrast to 108 (for all channels). I found the picture to be slightly improved over the default settings, for my tastes anyway.

I'm making this in case any of you R3 owners have tinkered around with these settings and came up with good settings for a better picture? I'm open to try different settings, I just want to make this screen as good as it can be and I'm honestly not good with things like this (finding the right calibration) because I'm far too picky and get indecisive (is it better like THIS, or like THAT??).

So I'd rather see what some of you guys have came up with, if anything.

Thanks.

 

Hmm I am also looking forward to seeing what the settings would be.

Has anybody tried swapping out the LCD for an RGB LED from the R2?

 

It can not be done it will not fit. The R2 is a 16:10 while the R3 is 16:9.

 

Ah I see. I wasn't sure on the 16:10 ratio on the R2. Thanks

 

Bumping this for more ideas. Yeah if the RGB could be transplanted to the R3, we'd be in business.

 

I don't mean to keep bumping this, I'm just sure that some of you have changed the settings around to get a better picture.

 

At least for my 3D panel, my colorimeter reported that both red and green channels were spot on and that the blue channel was too bright.

 

Well I've figured out how to make this WLED look MUCH BETTER.

I highly recommend you all try this:

Very simply, you open CCC and navigate to where you can adjust the Hue and Saturation of the display. Then you slide the Saturation from the default of "100" up to about 145-155 (somewhere in that range). It sounds like it's a lot, but I finally realized what was bugging me about this screen; colors are WAY WAY WAY undersaturated. I put the saturation to the mark I just specified and the screen looks MUCH better. Colors pop much more and it got rid of that washed out WLED look. Believe me, the image looks the farthest thing from oversaturated adjusting it that much, it really makes it look so much better.

I really think you all should try it.

 

some tools


http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m17x/575033-monitor-calibration.html

 

Thanks, helps alot.

 

Great tip! I didn't notice how white washed the screen was until I tried this.

Edit: Now how can I get the same screen saturation while on IGP?

 

Just as easy! It's right in the Intel IGP program, same as CCC. The screen looks almost exactly the same regardless of video card selected once I set the Intel saturation up.

It really makes a tremendous difference. I have no idea why the default color saturation is so low, next to my iMac display, the R3 was noticeably whitewashed with a strong blue tint. Now after jacking up the saturation, I prefer my R3's display and actually reminds me a bit of the RGB on the R2. It's still not quite the same (obviously), but it's MUCH closer.

 

what's the technical difference in the RGB type screen everyone talks about and the 120hz screen on the R3 because according to the test website (Subpixel layout) I posted on the last test mine shows as RGB without doubt

 

You win the m17x-r3 webnetz forum nobel prize. Thank you!

 

not all screens are the same and even screens that are supposed to be the same may not be, when I went from my XPS 1730 to the R3 the difference was huge to the point where I believe my XPS screen was actually faulty it look so dull compared

 

Wow, very nice find. World of difference, +Rep!

 

How high did you set the saturation on the IGP settings because 55 is way to high? Thanks

Edit: I have my CCC saturation set to 155 and what did you find a suitable match for the IGP saturation was?

 

bump last post

 

Here:

Spoiler

 

According to that subpixel website Subpixel layout - Lagom LCD test

My screen is V-RGB by default....

EDIT: Freaky...If I move slightly the black line shows up on the other sides too...

 

Thanks. I updated the IGP saturation settings by +5 which seems to help. I also have the GTX 460 card instead of the ATI, so any thoughts on how to adjust the saturation similarly to the proposed adjustment in the ATI CCC software?

 

This has actually been posted tons of times:

Bcat - Control Panel -> Display -> Adjust desktop color settings -> Digital Vibrance

Blast that up to 100%

I do that with all my LCD screens, looks SO MUCH BETTER

 

I'm currently using 460m with 60hz screen and I cant find the option for digital vibrance... Is it the driver's problem?

 

I am also, and I think that it has something to do with the Nvidia Optimus driver being used.

 

Thanks! 10char

 

I just got mine almost a week ago and I'm also looking to properly calibrate my monitor. I have the 560m graphics card so I don't have access to CCC, I did however up my digital vibrance as per instruction from a previous post in this thread. Doing that makes the colors way too bright for me and I can't find IGP anywhere on my computer. Any way of getting that program on here?

I have the i7-2630QM processor by the way.