AUO B173QTN01.0 Spyder5Pro Calibration Profile

For any of you who have the AUO B173QTN01.0 3K 120hz G-Sync screen, here is the Spyder5Pro calibrated Profile.

Download AUO B173QTN01.0 v1
Download AUO B173QTN01.0 v2
Download AUO B173QTN01.0 v3
Download AUO B173QTN01.0 v4 [taken in a dark room with screen brightness set to 30%]

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Download X-Rite i1Pro 2 ICC Profile







Here are how the Spyder5Pro App set the options in Control Panel / Color Management (ignore the model displayed that's from my previous laptop's screen, the final should be AUO B173QTN01.0-1.icm in our case)





Now, click on the Change system defaults button on the bottom right of the Advanced tab.



Then head over to the Advanced tab again in the new Window that popped out and check the box at the bottom which says: " Use Windows display calibration" and you will see the changes in color immediately when you do that.

 

I will create v1.1 of this profile tomorrow with better lighting conditions, meaning, a room at night with lights on as we normally would be playing.

This profile was created around 7AM so the lights in the room were on but the sun was rising slightly so it was a bit brighter than normal

 

Is there a way to force this for games? Yes desktop+movie playback(?) will look better but most games will just ignore it and use their own profile :/
In matter is fact, is there any game besides Witcher 3 which can use this icc profile right out of the box?

 

The one i got from Sager automatically loads the profile on windows startup

 

i finally got gsync working on it and hoped and dreamed for someone to post a icc profile....and now there are no devices/screens in the drop down tab in color management.

 

Hey Bro @Phoenix . I tried the profile and the whites came out a pee stained yellow.

So I went into the Nvidia control panel and switched from "Other applications control color settings" to "Use NVIDIA settings" and they seem fantastic.

Here's the prob.. Is that a placebo now? did that just disable the .ICM profile you provided?

 

try these values

 

Every panel is different, also the best and most accurate profiles are created when you do an advanced calibration in a dark room. These usually take about 6 hours to run, unless you use a spectrophotometer. They also help a lot across different panels, but then again , every panel is different.
I can explain to Phoenix how he can create one using DisplayCAL if he is interested.

Also if you use NVIDIA's color settings, then they over ride the Windows one.

 

no you aren't using the ICC Profile that way.

Please await version 1.1 of the profile today

 

Cheers bro looking forward to it!

 

Profile v2 is uploaded in the OP

Please try it and tell me if it's any better

 

Awesome bud, thanks! I'll try it once I get home from work

 

I'll compare it to the one HIDevolution sent me to see what kind of difference there is.

 

@Phoenix

Just tried your v2 profile now. It's way better than the first. I like it alot. The color feels alot more natural but whites are still a little tinted yellow. I could be because I'm use to the Nvidia profilewhich is practically fluorescent white.

 

this is how colors should be bro, get used to them.

Please await v3 in about 9 hours

 

The 3k screen has a very cool temp to begin with. I suspect that to help achieve the "IPS like" feel they made it cool so the whites would be similar to IPS.

 

maybe, but the default profile looks to white man, I feel like it's pale ghost

 

I totaly agree. Once I figure out my monitor driver issues I'll try your profile for sure.

 

what monitor driver issue bro?

 

Nothing shows up in the color management, identify screens window. in device manager it calls it a generic monitor in "other devices".

I try to update the driver to a plug and play driver but it doesn't show any drivers in the list.
I'm still playing around with it ( I have horrible luck)

 

The whites on my friends DM3 were close to perfect white, after i calibrated his 3k Panel using the Spyder 4 Express (same hardware as the Pro) and DisplayCAL. Ill ask him to send me the profile.
The reference point matters a lot.

And tbh, the Data Color app is pretty much garbage, unless it is used with proper monitors where you can manually set / change the base RGB and brightness before the actual calibrations starts. That is why for laptops spectrophotmeter's are much better, since they dont quite depend on the backlight type or are able to compensate for it. And with 6500k as the reference.

For any sort of proper calibration, the user needs to manually adjust the RGB and luminance of the monitor, otherwise the "application" just wings it and starts at the wrong base/reference point. (im really not sure how to explain things in a simpler way)

 

@TBoneSan @ssj92

AUO B173QTN01.0 v3 has been uploaded in the OP. This should be better as I reached home late night before the sun rises, so this profile was created with a flourescent lighting (low-medium brightness)

I hope you like it

 

you need to install the ICC profile then wait for 30 seconds before accessing the color management in control panel.

Next, you need to ensure to tick the box which says Use My Settings for this device

There is no driver to be installed for this screen or any screen that I previously used. It will always show up as Generic PnP monitor in device manager.

 

Why not turn the lights completely off and use 30% brightness? Thats closest to 130cd/m2 for most panels.

 

tomorrow

 

I'll wait for that one

Can you also upload a picture of the NTSC color gamut and AdobeRGB color gamut page like on the first post?

 

your wish is my command. Please standby

 

Do you think his ICC profile would be more accurate for my personal display over the one HID gave me? I'll probably try that one, Phoenix's and HID's and compare to see which one works best.

Are you going to do it @bloodhawk 's way and use DisplayCAL?

 

What I was gonna do is turn off that lights and lower the brightness.

What is DisplayCal?

 

Yes that's a good way to do it and probably the best way for us since we have difference lighting conditions.

DisplayCAL is an application, but you'd have to ask @bloodhawk for more info on it.

 

It all depends on how and what method is used to calibrate.

@Phoenix This is DisplayCAL - https://displaycal.net/

Here is a very basic video -

 

@TBoneSan

X-Rite i1Pro 2 ICC Profile added to the OP

Source: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Aorus-X7-v6-Notebook-Review.182897.0.html

 

@TBoneSan

is it just me or do you also not find any difference with the X-Rite profile vs the default Windows one? I've never seen any difference with profiles from that site to be honest

 

@TBoneSan

Spyder5Pro Profile taken in a pitch dark room with 30% screen brightness uploaded to the OP. Please let me know if you feel a difference

@Papusan Maybe if you calibrate your taptop screen your wPrime score would increase?

 

Call me blind but I can't tell a difference between profile 1,2, 3, and 4

I will try bloodhawk's recommendation next

@bloodhawk nevermind, the download never starts, crappy servers

 

Just tried it out. Yours seems a bit too dark and more red than it should. Stock is too blue. The one from HID feels right. Here I'll upload mine for y'all to see.

 

forum upload didn't work and I agree, mine are too red/orangy for my liking. Do you know what calibration device HIDevolution uses?

hmmm, this doesn't sound so good about the Spyder products: https://photographylife.com/the-basics-of-monitor-calibration

 

That's weird I downloaded the latest version on the desktop and laptop separately today and both times it worked fine.

And yeah the best results are obtained using a specterophotometer.
Most colorimeters need corrections to take into account the type of backlighting and AUO panels always have the weirdest ones.

I have an i1display pro and I used that to create a correction profile for my friends Spyder 4. Which he then used to perfectly calibrate his brothers P870-DM with the 4k panel and now the 3k panel on his DM3.

 

They use iDisplay Pro 1i or something

https://mega.nz/#!WdVjUQzC!51dv9v6qF4hiz9eWS-Tsbb3VWkiQo3bM54fpDSCwf_4

Can you hook it up with their 3K panel profile?

 

Not sure if i understand the question properly.
But yeah hes out on a work trip right now and will be back after the long weekend. Ill have him send me the profiles once hes back.

 

Yes I noticed that too. Thanks for all the effort you're going to posting up these profiles. I'm really liking the color depth yours bring out, but the Hidevolution profile gets whites right for me. I wish we could have them both.
Either way. These profiles are a good step in the right direction and far nicer than bone stock

 

@ssj92

I find the HIDevolution profile the most natural looking to be honest. Whites look much better than the Spyder5Pro one

 

Ive tried all the profiles listed above and for me the only one that is good is the x7v6 one. Still maybe a little yellow but wow those colors pop.
The other profiles look very yellow, just because a program says you're "good to go" doesnt mean you necessarily are. Yellow isnt white no matter how you cut it.
Anyway, i appreciate the effort and it led to me getting a good profile. I'll be continuing to look for new uploaded profiles. thanks

 

You're right. the last one was made by HIDevolution their colorometer is better than mine

 

Which one should I download?

 

All of them and see what you like?

 

Thanks. I will get miNe on monday. Can wait lol

 

Bit off topic, but if I have HIDevolution calibrate this same display for me when ordering, is that profile automatically enabled every time I start the computer or is there something I need to do to enable it? You seem to have experience with this. Thanks.

 

Did you remember to warm up the tool and screen for at least 45m?


Did you use spyder5 with displaycal and use 6500K profile + slowest calibration / profiling?

 

ICC Profile not loading automatically with Windows