Fix for chrome washed out colors
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KillerCrocker




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PostPosted: Sat, 31st Mar 2018 16:57    Post subject: Fix for chrome washed out colors
... I've been testing few monitors lately and just noticed that Chrome displays false colors. It is not targeting proper 2.2 with srgb color range but is washed out compared to viewing images on desktop or in Edge browser...

Open Lagom http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/black.php in Chrome and Edge, switch windows and compare. Chrome will look a bit more washed out/brighter.

The Edge and windows 10 viewer seems to be a correct way but I was only able to confirm it ps4 browser looking the same as edge and windows 10 internal viewer.
Or just find any dark image and download it to desktop. It will look ever so slightly different.

Fix is here:
https://www.thefreewindows.com/21668/washed-colors-google-chrome-easy-and-reversible-fix/
chrome://flags/
Force color profile
scRGB linear (HDR where available)

I am posting it here for better visibility since I think it's important issue. Chrome is the most popular browser and many people use lagom site to set gamma and test simply monitor... and it's not correct on chrome apparently.

with fix, everything looks as it should be. From browsing to youtube videos and so on. Christ what was google thinking


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Breezer_




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Location: Finland
PostPosted: Sat, 31st Mar 2018 17:24    Post subject:
Did not have this problem, but nice post. Only thing where i have seen some odd colour behaviour is windows picture preview, it displayed very dark picture, but seems to be fixed these days.

Do you have calibrated monitor? Or are you doing these "tests" with out of the box "calibrations"?.
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KillerCrocker




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PostPosted: Sat, 31st Mar 2018 17:54    Post subject:
It's not real calibration. I don't own calibrator. I am just changing gamma settings and other stuff in monitor osd to pass lagom lcd tests and so on. Nothing scientific or measurable other than by just looking at results.

So is Windows is too dark or Chrome to bright/washed? The difference is subtle but it is there (without fix in chrome) and it's big enough to skew lagom lcd website gamma and black levels results.
PS4 browser is the same as Windows Edge and chrome looks like it is doing gamma 2.1 or something among those lines instead of 2.2. It is identical with forced srgb profile.

I also suggest opening some image in chrome, downloading it and opening in windows image viewer.
this one for example https://i.imgur.com/yST4iVM.jpg

edit: I've sold the aoc ag251fg gsync 240hz monitor because it had too low gamma and backlight bleeding. The LG 24GM79G I have not have perfect 2.2 gamma(easy to test by eye), ~6500k temp and 0 bleeding. Blacks are deep and it looks great. Sure it's TN but it achieves uniformity and deep blacks better than any IPS could(glow, silbering). Ofc image quality and contrast goes to shit at 144hz but it still looks better than that aoc did.


3080 | ps5 pro

Sin317-"im 31 years old and still surprised at how much shit comes out of my ass actually ..."
SteamDRM-"Call of Duty is the symbol of the true perfection in every aspect. Call of Duty games are like Mozart's/Beethoven's symphonies"
deadpoetic-"are you new to the cyberspace?"
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ixigia
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Location: Italy
PostPosted: Sun, 1st Apr 2018 03:24    Post subject:
Yup, I noticed this issue a while back while I was uploading screenshots on Imgur, go figure. Even on my ancient 50 shades of grey-powered TN monitor from 2011 (that I should definitely change, but that's another story Laughing) the gamma and blacks on the browser looked completely different from Windows' ones (way more washed up), whereas Firefox or even ye ol' Internet Explorer maintained the original colors. I don't know if there are some other factors involved, but for what it's worth forcing the sRGB profile indeed worked fine for me too.
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scaramonga




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PostPosted: Sun, 1st Apr 2018 05:54    Post subject:
Hmm. I smell Guru3D?

Laughing

Just done the tweak on Chrome, and WOW!!! The colours are in 3D! Many thx, these are keepers.
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