I think I may be insane. I have a dual boot of windows xp and xp MCE... now while updating MCE... something i dont do on XP I noticed that it had a driver or something for my particular monitor, a Dell 2005FPW... upon a reboot i have noticed something that i thought was a fluke but seems consistent, pictures, high quality that is... are damn near as clear as they were when I had a CRT... if you have an lcd you know that powdery texture closeups of skin can have... well thats gone now... am I crazy or is there something to that driver doohickey...
Better LCD Clarity
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name='setite' said:
I've noticed that Windows XP now loads up a monitor driver when prompted for my monitor whereas it used to do it automatically before. Not noticed the skin thing tho :eh:
Still: as long as its better ey?
You didnt happen to get a new set of glasses this week did you? 
All i'll say is that with drivers anything is possible. Maybe they just tweaked the colour settings a bit? I'm one for just installing the drivers and not configuring the options, so i could probably make things look a lot nicer even on my screen.
All i'll say is that with drivers anything is possible. Maybe they just tweaked the colour settings a bit? I'm one for just installing the drivers and not configuring the options, so i could probably make things look a lot nicer even on my screen.
yea it just eliminated the one thing i missed from CRT... pictures of people... especially the special pictures looked like shit when i first got this monitor... and i was sorta mad... its only with those types of pictures... not the magazine type... but online only ones.... they look good now.... now im happy... i wasnt that bothered but yea im 100% sure that the change has happened.... i figured that the skin texture issue must have been something fixable since all the reviews about LCD vs CRT never mentioned it...
looked like shit when i first got this monitor... and i was sorta mad... its only with those types of pictures... not the magazine type... but online only ones.... they look good now.... now im happy... i wasnt that bothered but yea im 100% sure that the change has happened.... i figured that the skin texture issue must have been something fixable since all the reviews about LCD vs CRT never mentioned it...name='Dav0s' said:
well in response to that im assuming that either the driver unlocked something.... or that MCE has some tweaks beyond windows regular cleartype.... or perhaps enhanced... but i dont think/know whether cleartype affects photos...
EDIT: oh i thought you said cant... hehe whoops
EDIT2: to xms.. yea well i only installed the driver for this monitor one other time when i first bought it.... and thats only because it wasnt working OOTB for some reason... but each install after that it has worked fine so i never bothered... its just that since im trying MCE im actually updating like i should.... and yea one of the updates broke InstallShield's ikernel.exe so I had to go reinstall that... thats why i dont use windows updates.... because that broke my pc so i had to spend an extra 30 mins to work my soundcard because i couldnt find the ikernel update so that i could install my sb drivers...
to kempez i still want that cd... although i did manage to salvage the apps i needed from the cd i have... perhaps i should try a recovery tool? do those read slower or soemthing to get the hard to get data copied?
not 100% sure... but when i was editing the gamma and all that in my nvidia console... i clicked the import key and it showed a bunch of ICC profiles... and i saw something i had never seen before... a profile named after my dell.... so ya... thats what makes it work better... ill google icc profile in a sec... i think i may be selling my dell... dunno... right now im using my projector and i cant imagine going back
go here
http://www.color.org/
icc is the international color consortium
go here
http://www.color.org/
icc is the international color consortium
