I've just installed the latest nVidia driver for my Geoforce MMX 420, and now I can use OpenGL in P6! But... I ran the included Optimization Wizard for calibrating my display, and the Gamma wizard (where you drag boxes to adjust RGB) made my previous images very dark, too contrasty and saturated. I reset it back to the defaults, which makes it look identical to the settings I used with my previous driver. I these previous settings are good; one indication is that when I print color pictures out, they are quite close to what I see on the screen. But... now I'm wondering if others see my images as way out of bounds. I'm using 6500K color temp on my Philips monitor, and with my previous settings my blacks and whites look good on my end. According to the nVidia tool, I didn't need to adjust my brightness, but the gamma was way out and needed considerable color adjustment (when I exited out of the tool, everything looked terrible though). I'd appreciate it if you took a quick look. Thanks! http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Y&Artist=linkdink

"But... I ran the included Optimization Wizard for calibrating my display, and the Gamma wizard (where you drag boxes to adjust RGB) made my previous images very dark, too contrasty and saturated. I reset it back to the defaults, which makes it look identical to the settings I used with my previous driver." Yeah, I have an nVidia board too and I played around with the Gamma Wizard too one day. Got the same thing you got. Went back to the default too. Not sure what the Gamma Wizard is supposed to do, but it ends up just making a mess of things. As far as your gallery images, they look great using my nVidia default setting, ie not using the Gamma Wizard.

Thanks Fazzel!

Your images look good on ATI as well. Good contrast, not too dark, not overly saturated.

I checked some of your inages, the gamma btightness and contrast all look fine to me. I'm usaing a 'Nvidia GeForce2 MXMX 400' card, and a Cornerstont CRT monitor. I once tried a monitor calibration utility (not Nvidia), It made a total mess of things.

(It's for setting a monitor to show digital images as they would print on Fuji colour photo systems.)

Oh, and as for your pictures, it's likely this monitor, but the total brightness range is just awkwardly large: highlights burning out sometimes, and shadows too dark at the same time.

I use 9300K color temp on my Philips 21" monitor, BTW. Whiter whites and all that, just looked better to my eyes,