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I just bought a new monitor (LG E2351VR) and was trying to calibrate it with the Windows 7 Display Color Calibration tool. When I attempt to set the display gamma via the software slider, it temporarily changes the gamma but the changes are immediately reverted after a fraction of a second.
I installed the display driver but it was just an ICM file and it didn't change anything. How can I allow the calibration software to properly set display options?
Starting with Vista, Microsoft bundles support for ICC color profile calibration with the "Windows Color System." Even though Vista doesn't include a tool to create ICC profiles and the tool in Windows 7 is very basic, you can load any profiles that you generate by other means.
If you use the advanced display calibration wizard in OS X, it will generate ICC profiles for you. If you save the profiles for "all users" they will be stored in a central location. Then you can load and use them in Windows because Boot Camp 3.0 provides HFS+ drivers to mount the OS X system volume.
After you do the calibration in OS X, restart inot Windows. The calibrated ICC files should be readable on your "Macintosh HD" volume. On my machine they are in E:\Library\ColorSync\Profiles\Displays.
Right-click on the .icc files and choose "Install Profile". Then you can use Control Panel > Display > Ajust resolution > Advanced Settings > Color Managment to load the appropriate ICC profiles for each monitor. You can use the Advanced tab to set the default color profile per display for all users.
According to what I see from this laptop's specifications, the graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS.
NVIDIA drivers contain a control panel (which should be accessible in the system control panel, from the contextual menu on the desktop, or from a tray icon), in which you can set different parameters, like which 3D effects to use, performance on battery, multiple display, etc.
Between these settings, you can also find something like "Adjust Color settings", in which you can set the brightness, gamma, etc. It's possible that these settings have a priority over the ones from the OS, so try to change there, maybe it will keep them.
It should be as well the base for 3D applications such as games, but keep in mind that each of them can set their own, so most likely you would have to deal with each of them individually.
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This is caused by having f.lux running. Exit f.lux and the color calibration should work properly.