NP9150 Stock Matte vs. 95% Gamut Matte

Just placed my order earlier today and a little while later, I received an email telling me all but the Gamut Matte display are on back order until the 21st. Is the $65 increase worth the gamut display if I'm mostly gaming, and not photo editing stuff? I'd also really like to get this laptop before christmas, but if the stock matte is that much better, I can wait. I know there's that "Gamut is bad for gamers" topic that'll I'll eventually get around to reading. Is there a noticeable color difference when playing games with the gamut display? Do the workarounds do a pretty nice job of fixing any issues? If I get xotic to calibrate the screen, will that help at all, or do games still suffer the color problem?

 

It's not necessarily a "problem" as you put it, the stock screen already comes with a 72% gamut screen which is higher than most, I personally have a 99% gamut monitor for photo editing and I game fine on my laptop screen. Plus getting the colour profiles to stick during gaming is tricky from what I have read.

 

Yea I've been reading more into it, and I'm starting to understand it's not necessarily a problem, like you said, but more of a colors being over saturated issue. How noticeable is it when color profiles are off while gaming? I don't mind if colors are a tiny bit off and unnoticeable. I would definitely stick with the stock matte display if wasn't on back order, but if I really do want this computer soon, is it worth getting the high gamut display? It's not so much whether it's worth the money, but whether having my laptop sooner is worth the hassle of having off colors.

 

The 95% matte screens are awesome, even while gaming I think they look great. In my opinion they are the best notebook screens out there.

 

Hutsady, I just emailed you about changing my order lol

 

The problem is not over saturated colours at all, it's UNDER saturated colours when running in stock form. The 95% has a washed out blue overcast when running without any calibration.

However I have posted a better solution to the problem in the other thread which involves tweaking the gamma values in the Intel graphics properties control panel.

 

Oh, from what I read, I thought the reddish tint was more common. It's also my understanding that, like the 7970m's, color problems seem to vary with user. So I decided to go with the 95% Gamut Matte and see what happens once I get it. I plan on trying your tweak, but is there any free calibration software anybody could recommend? I don't think I'll have the cash for a spyder anytime soon.

 

I think i got your email and replied to it, cant tell by your name here but i think its you
There are also some color profiles Sager has available to download for the 95% matte screens which you can try out and see what looks good to you. They have them with the NP8150 drivers Software Upgrade

 

Just came across those not too long ago and definitely plan on trying them out. I'm not super color accurate picky so I figure a nice profile will do for now and I can always make it more accurate later on.

And yup pretty sure that's me emailing you

 

ive got the standard matte screen and its ruddy awesome. was a little worried at first as ive always had gloss screens but the bright vibrant colors of this matte screen just blew me away.