Windows, NVIDIA, and oversaturated colours
After a recent power dip, I had to reboot my machine and the colours went completely crazy. I have an HP 2475w wide-gamut monitor which can produce some seriously "dayglo" colours - e.g. the orange in the Firefox icon became an eye-searing hypersaturated red. Since my PC is on 24/7 for long intervals at a time, it was absolutely impossible to tell what had caused this. I had been evaluating some new raw converters recently so my initial guess was that some software I installed had made the change. After much frustration, uninstalling apps, and several reboots later, it turns out that the culprit is the latest NVIDIA drivers which default the "digital vibrance" setting to 90% (where it had previously been 50%).
WTF, NVIDIA? Please don't screw with my colours and focus on building better hardware instead. Secondly, how did this update get WHQL approval and made it into Microsoft's Windows Update? It's little things like this that have made all the pros move to Mac.
August 24th, 2010 - 16:31
Hey funny enough I’ve had the same problem – thought there was something wrong then found the setting in the Nvidia control panel app. Tis was Windows7 on my Macbook Pro.