X Rite Color Assistant Download EXCLUSIVE
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The factory color calibration feature is available on computer models preinstalled with the X-Rite Color Assistant program. This feature enables you to render color images or graphics on your display close to the original intent as much as possible.
Now, I honestly had no complaints about this panel. Colors look punchy and there is an ample amount of brightness as well despite having a matte finish. The unit that we got is also G-Sync compatible. Speaking of which, I had a great time playing games as the panel offered smooth textures and sharp imaging. The display is also a treat if you want to watch movies, especially in HDR format. Additionally, Lenovo packs a software called X-Rite Color Assistant that lets you set various color profiles depending on your usage. You can choose between Adobe RGB, DCI-P3, Rec. 709, and sRGB. Other than that there is a Default setting as well as a Non-calibrated option.
The Western Digital SSD felt quite fast and snappy to me. Running CrystalDiskMark reaffirmed my experience as the NVMe SSD managed to score 2,913MBps read speeds and 2,961MBps write speeds. This is not the fastest SSD around when compared to the offerings by Samsung, but it should deliver rock-solid transfer speeds.
I just bought a Legion 5 pro. Im having some problems with my display ( i think). After setting everything up I started watching some videos on YouTube (Dead Space Remake!!) and noticed some color banding. After that I noticed it on the background image to and changed it to this one where it is most noticeable. I tend to be a little paranoid about these things... so, is it normal at all? Is there anything I can do ? It seems too predominant to not have been mentioned on any review..
There shouldn't be color banding, the display is really good (typing this message to you on a Legion 5 Pro 16ACH6).
It would help if you were to attach the exact picture you used for that background, maybe it is just compressed like crazy. Also YT compresses the s*** out of videos, so seeing color banding on a YT video is nothing new.
You should check color bit depth in Windows, you should also check for driver updates if you haven't already.
A better way to test for color banding is to take a look at programmatically generated gradient, like using your browser and CSS (not perfect), there shouldn't be any obvious color banding there. I say not perfect because CSS linear gradient is 8 bit. Here let's use this website:
If you see color banding there then there is something wrong with your display.
On the topic of HDR, since you have it enabled, the picture I found that looks like yours is not in HDR (pretty much all images on the net are not in HDR)
Thank you so much for your help. The image was clearly heavy compressed but still, i tried the website (hdr off...thanks again) and still found noticeble color banding as you can see in the picture, but then... i changed the profile setting on x-rite color assistant from default to not calibrated and no more banding on the greyscale, yay. I guess the color correction was messing up the image somehow (is that supposed to happen?) First image is the profile picture with no banding, with the second it gets very noticeable. Do you still think the screen may have some problem? (sorry for the extra questions) i will start on the hdr battle now.
You are welcome. And yeah the color profiles do cause the color banding for me as well!
But here is the interesting part, on Windows only Native doesn't cause color banding (like you've noticed as well)... but on Linux (5.10 Kernel, Manjaro 21 KDE Plasma, proprietary drivers) all color profiles (Native, Default, sRGB, Rec. 709) work perfectly fine without any color banding.
So this appears to be a Windows or Nvidia driver for Windows fault, I don't think this a display issue.
I'll see in the next few days if I can find something on this topic, until then I guess we are stuck with Native profile on Windows (in HDR only that one is available for me anyway). My only issue with Native profile is that it appears to be slightly warmer, white has a slight yellow tint (don't have any monitor color calibration tools to check properly, going by feel).
It is not a deal breaker for me since I do all my work on Linux, but I can see it being a problem for color accurate professionals working on Windows.
So If I don't find a fix for this, who do we go to for support? Lenovo, Microsoft or Nvidia hah.
Thats exactly what happens in mine, the warmer tint seems to be the only way for now. But its a relief to know that its not a display issue. I've found some reports of color banding with the mix nvidea graphics card on Windows systems, but whos at fault and who could help, no idea. I've been searching for some fixes and, at least, in the meantime learning a little bit more about how everything works haha. I'll keep searching and hopefully find some fix to share.
Aside from the useful apps that were pre-installed on our review notebook such as the aforementioned X-rite Color Assistant and the iCue software to control the RGB lighting, the Legion 7 comes with McAfee anti-virus.
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