On Vista SP1 (Release Candidate v.668), I have had no problem with the fade to black or even sleep mode messing up the LUTs. That is assuming I correctly understand what the -V switch does. D:\argyll\bin>dispwin -v -V LeftLCD.cal About to open dispwin object on the display About to set given calibration Verify: 'LeftLCD.cal' IS loaded (discrepancy 0.0%) Calibration set About to destroy dispwin object ... that is after coming back from sleep mode in the morning. On Feb 11, 2008 10:06 PM, Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I thought I'd pass on the state of Vista and display > calibration as I have been lead to understand them: > > * Vista color utilities don't themselves support loading > the vcgt tag from a display profile, but third party > calibration loaders can be used to do this. > [This may change in some future version of Vista, > but it's not clear if or when this will occur.] > > * There is currently a bug in Vista (A fade to black effect used > at login/logout/sleep/restore/fast_uset_switch) that changes > the Video LUTS but doesn't restore them. Due to release management > issues, this problem is due to be fixed by an update sometime > after SP1 in (Northern) spring. The only workaround at > the moment is to re-load the calibration after such an > event manually. > > Graeme Gill. > > > > >