Sagittarius
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I want to upgrade my 4K monitor
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I was looking for Windows 11, but it is available for Windows 10 only.
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Installed driver for Windows 10. Will see. At least now it shows up in the Devise manager under it's name.
As I said before, I don't know why it's not listed under 11.
The links for 10, 8.1, and 7 all point to the same download.
If you are doing a software calibration, creating icc-file and all, you aren't really calibrating but actually *profiling your graphics card*. You are 'correcting' monitors color accuracy problems by introducing cancelling distortion to your graphics adapter. In other words you are correcting monitor reproduction problems by introducing more problems into chain earlier - this reduces monitors dynamics and will make the color gamut smaller. You are getting less colors and sometimes even more distorted..
Real calibration, by creating a LUT and letting the monitor adjust itself for the best possible color/lightness reproduction, is the right way to do it.
Monitor calibration and getting accurate colors is a topic where there are a lot of these sort of challenges, which is why I recommend the Eizo for most. Eizo has the things sorted out (calibration software in combination with the monitor) so that things get right from the start.
Sagittarius
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ASUS also has a calibration software in combination with monitor (for certain monitors). Like I mentioned the monitor I've got comes with X-rite i1Disp[lay Pro colorimeter and you downloading their calibration software which creates a internal LUT in the monitor.
I experimented with that software yesterday evening. Two versions, actually. One was available for download from the Asus support page for the PA329C, and the other was the Proart Creator Hub from the Microsoft Store.
Both used what seems to be a very small set of color patches. When I checked the resulting calibration with DisplayCal, the calibration seemed to be poor.
Maybe I didn't do it right. I'd be interested in how others make out with the Asus software.
Sagittarius
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What version of the ASUS software have you downloaded? I have 2.2.2. Yesterday I calibrated my monitor with ASUS's software and visually I like the result. I do not have DisplayCal. What was wrong with calibration according to DisplayCAl?
The latest version of the Asus software that they offer for the PA329C is 1.14.06. (Newer versions don't support it.)
I also tried the Proart Creator Hub software from the Microsoft store (also free), which appears to support the PA329C.
I don't recall the numbers, but the measured delta E values, including the average, were outside the "acceptable" range.
DisplayCal is freeware, that runs on top of the Argyll CMS freeware. It can be used to generate .icm profiles. (I believe that it cannot update the hardware LUT in your monitor, even though that Asus model allows for third-party LUT programming. The PA329C does not.) It appears to be more powerful than the software for the i1Display Pro than the X-Rite or Calibrite software. Installing it wasn't the most intuitively obvious, but it wasn't overly difficult. Our moderator "Austinian" might be a better source of information about it than me.
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Maybe not, as it's been so long since I installed DisplayCAL. But yes, it's quite powerful and can tell you a lot about your monitor in addition to calibration/profiling.
In the past I'd have said that it was nearly essential for those of us who had a ColorMunki Display, as the Xrite software for that model was IMO very poor. However, I think the newer Calibrite ccStudio software does at least allow for the white-point monitor adjustment the old Xrite software did not, and may well be adequate if creating a .icm profile is all that's needed. It is simpler to install.
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ASUS software allowed me to do uniformity calibration meaning that calibration is done in about 20 or so different places on monitor. After calibration it produces report showing ∆E <1for all place but one where it showed 1.77.
Wow, that's an insanely high priced 27" monitor. I checked Amazon an B&H and it's selling for $1,999.00. Must be nice to be rich ...
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Did you have any doubts about that.
Strange. If I select Windows 11, I get nothing. If I choose Windows 10, drivers and calibration software appear.
Are the 576 FALD (full array local dimming) zones and the 1000nit peak brightness useful to you? (I presume those are part of the explanation for the price of the monitor.)
Sagittarius
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This monitor has a mini-LED back-lit. That is what makes it expansive.
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Oh, wow. So it can fold out like those new Samsung phones? Cool!
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