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Many applications don't inherit display's colour profile (Windows 11 22000.100)
Hi,
I recently installed Windows 11 beta (22000.100) on one of my computers and it's been very stable so far. However, I ran into one issue that seems to affect many applications on Windows 11.
The issue seems related to display colour profiles. Many applications are not applying my display's colour profile and are showing washed out colours. My display is a BenQ EW3270U, and my graphics card is a nVidia GTX 1070. I have seen this problem occur on browsers, Adobe applications and Steam. I have tried with a different display and the issue is still there. The problem is not present on Windows 10.
Anyone know how to fix this issue?
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- This has been fixed in the latest Windows update "January 25, 2022—KB5008353 (OS Build 22000.469)". After installing the update, I undid the "workaround" that I were using and I reinstalled the color profile (in my case, I did this from DisplayCAL, since it's the software that I used to create the color profile). Everything is working as expected now. I can't believe it took almost 4 months for Microsoft to fix the color management. But at least it's finally working.
I have found a workaround for this issue: open "Color Management", go to the "Advanced" tab and, in "Device profile", choose your monitor's device profile (it should be on the list if your color profile is already installed). After doing this, all your color-managed software will use the device profile again.
- Still happens in release build 22000.194
sanjupanikkar I'm using the release version (21H2 / 22000.194) and I have the same issue. All the applications that I use are using sRGB as my display's profile instead of the specific one that I installed. The correct GPU gamma curves are being loaded, though. I'm using XnViewMP, Photoshop and Firefox for this testing. The display profile is being installed with DisplayCal. I didn't have any issue with Windows 10. I'm uploading two pictures where you can see XnViewMP thinks system's display profile is "sRGB", even when a custom profile is installed.
Wow knew I should have stuck with Windows 10, My desktop White looks washed out and like a cool off white in Windows 10 I did not have this issue.
1080p looks absolutely terrible on my Sony 55" 4K TV icons are a blurry mess when I go native icons are clear but screen looks washed out, Making my eyes strain terribly.
I had the DPI fix tool running for Windows 10 which was fine but when I installed Windows 11 it was also fine until I changed the colours in personalisation settings and now it won't go back no matter what I try.
I don't know what's wrong with the light profile in Windows 11 but it's a wash out for me.- Still not fixed with new 22000.168 release... 😞
- Has anyone tested 22449 on the dev channel ?
Changelog mentions this :
"Addressed an issue that was making certain applications sometimes get the wrong color profile in multi-monitor scenarios."So does thos mean we have to either switch to Dev channel or wait over 6 month to get the fix regaring color management on multiple display settings ?
- that won't get you anywhere. somebody has been fiddling with color profiles, run the GPO of that policy reset. all these profiles that even are added to .JPEG images, as if we are too stupid to see how micohashes are recognizers in this universe. What would happen if some parser or eval of that gets OOB hehehehe FB
sanjupanikkar Same here.
I should point out that Windows itself handles color profiles just fine.When I open a jpeg on both screens with Window's built in preview program, I looks just fine.
But many other apps do look dull on the secondary screen.
That is the case for all the browsers I tested (Chrome, Edge Chromium, Firefox).
Cf screenshot example.
Chrome has a flag that allows to force a color profil, which fixes the issue for the seconday screen, but then everything looks oversaturated on the primary screen (which is high gamut).
Essentially, thos apps do not seem to benefit from Window's auto- color profile adjustements.
These worked fin on Windows 10.
Question is : who needs to update ?
Third party editors or Microsoft ?
Anyone has some info about an upcoming fix ?
- To be fair, this is not the final version so we assumed the risk by installing it.
Not sure of any incoming fixes. For the moment I have led to default icc and deleted the calibrated one.- Agreed. But that only works if you have one display, or several of the same kinds.
No doubt this will get fixed... I'm just surprised that this does not get mentioned anywhere. I tried to write a feedback to Microsoft but I couldn't find the form in the insider program.
Hi again everyone,
I noticed that this issue also affects the colours in video games and movies as well making them look washed out.
However, the good news is that there is a way to fix the issue (atleast for now). It turns out the issue is actually caused by graphics drivers for Windows 11 and not by Windows 11 itself.
So here's the way to do it:
* Delete your display's colour profiles in Windows Color Profile Management.
* Uninstall graphics drivers completely using a tool like Display Driver Uninstaller.
* Restart your computer.
* Reinstall graphics drivers.
* Restart your computer.
* Colours should display correctly.- I don't have a fix, but I have the same problem. I can calibrate my display with a 3080Ti, which then looks good. I reboot it uses the default color profile even though it says its using the profile I created. It isn't. I can delete the color profile and it looks the same.
- It looks like there are no user solutions for these specific issues. They have to be fixed by Microsoft, hopefully by the time Windows 11 is officially released.
sanjupanikkarI'm having the same issues. =(
