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Question about null VCGTs and display table reset via SpaceMatch

 
Author bsv_arthur
ZRO
#1 | Posted: 27 Jul 2023 20:19 
I'm seeing some behaviour that I don't understand particularly well, and that I have not found an answer to in the documentation either. For reference purposes, this is a Windows 11 machine with an RTX 4090 graphics card, software/firmware all updated, and the behaviour reproduces on different monitors. VCGT files are saved directly via SpaceMatch.

So, when I open SpaceMatch on a display that shouldn't have a bespoke VCGT applied to it, I see a fully linear one as VCGT_from_display_0 with no path, i.e., everything is okay. VP2776 - program start is the example of that, with the following start and end sequences:
0 0, 0, 0 | 0.000, 0.000, 0.000
255 65535, 65535, 65535 | 1.000, 1.000, 1.000

If I get the active VCGT data via pressing "Read", I get the exact same thing, as expected. Attached for posterity as VP2776 - read.

Where the oddness happens is when I now press the "Reset Display Tables" button. In my understanding, I should be seeing no change, i.e., a reset from a null VCGT to a null VCGT. Instead, I see that the full range of the VCGT changes, shrinking by one "step". Attached as VP2776 - reset.

Before reset:

250 64250, 64250, 64250 | 0.980, 0.980, 0.980
251 64507, 64507, 64507 | 0.984, 0.984, 0.984
252 64764, 64764, 64764 | 0.988, 0.988, 0.988
253 65021, 65021, 65021 | 0.992, 0.992, 0.992
254 65278, 65278, 65278 | 0.996, 0.996, 0.996
255 65535, 65535, 65535 | 1.000, 1.000, 1.000

After reset:

250 64000, 64000, 64000 | 0.977, 0.977, 0.977
251 64256, 64256, 64256 | 0.980, 0.980, 0.980
252 64512, 64512, 64512 | 0.984, 0.984, 0.984
253 64768, 64768, 64768 | 0.988, 0.988, 0.988
254 65024, 65024, 65024 | 0.992, 0.992, 0.992
255 65280, 65280, 65280 | 0.996, 0.996, 0.996

I would like to understand if this is the expected behaviour and I have misunderstood something along the way, or if there's something to be done about the behaviour.

VP2776 - program start.txt Attached file:
VP2776 - program start.txt

 
VP2776 - read.txt Attached file:
VP2776 - read.txt

 
VP2776 - reset.txt Attached file:
VP2776 - reset.txt

 

Author Steve

INF
Male
#2 | Posted: 28 Jul 2023 08:19 
Please see: https://www.lightillusion.com/spacematch.html
And click the Windows VCGT Issues tab.
The info is stated there.

Steve
Steve Shaw
Mob Boss at Light Illusion

Author bsv_arthur
ZRO
#3 | Posted: 28 Jul 2023 10:12 
Oh, I see, thank you. I had only referred to the SpaceMatch user manual page, which does not restate or refer to this information. The good news is that I had intuitively assumed that reset was not having the intended effect on my system, meaning that all my calibration was done with pre-reset VCGT, which is identical to the default unity VCGT.

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