Sprectraview + LCD2690WUXi + Macbook Pro

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jimmy43

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I cant seem to install spectraview on my macbook pro. I am running it in XP. I just got my LCD2690WUXi and I was hoping to calibrate it. I installed the drivers on the CD as well, but Spectraview keeps saying monitor not detected. The LCD2690WUXi is set as the only primary monitor right now.

Any ideas?

Thanks:)
 
My guess would be that the XP drivers for the Mac's video card don't support DDC/CI. Spectraview needs 2 way communication with the monitor to do it's job. If you have OS-X on there, just boot in to that and use the Mac version of Spectraview. NEC says all the Mac video cards are DDC/CI compatible. If you don't then you can try either finding updated drivers for the video card, or try the drivers that NEC includes on the CD. Not sure how successful that will be as I don't know what kind of drivers Apple has for their hardware under Windows.
 
Right, the only question i have about that is does Spectraview just need to be run once, then the hardware is calibrated, or does it need to be run as a software utility that stores color settings and runs in the taskbar.
 
It stores the calibration in the hardware. It does create an ICC file, but that just specifies the gamut and then specifies a 1:1 mapping since no software correction is needed. You should probably periodically recalibrate your display, but just to update for changes it has over it's lifetime. All data is stored in the hardware itself.
 
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