Microsoft Windows 10 thread

[Björn Carlén]

It's a discontinued product, and xrite don't even support drivers for Win8. Their recommendation is to buy a new calibrator....

Bad news  It would have been better not to upgrade.
But thanks for the info.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Try installing drivers for Win 7.

That is what I had to do in order to get my video, sound, wi-fi, and printer functional again. The endearing part of the affair is that win10 install refused to have anything to do with these (already existing) drivers when it hammered in the update from win7 to 10. Makes you really love Microsoft, doesn't it?

Now busy, apparently for days to come, to remove or deactivate all the mess and unwanted 'features' foisted upon me by win10. It is very clear that either you give your soul and trust to Microsoft, or be damned. It is the Internet Explorer story over again. OneDrive, for example, is "integrated" so cannot be removed ?? What on Earth would I want to have Xbox games integrated in my OS? and so it goes. The GUI is horrible and even the ability of making the active title bar stand out in a different colour is now gone.

[Bjørn J]

Hindsight: Always check availability for all the drivers you need before upgrading the operating system
But I understand it is possible to roll back to the old OS within 30 days after upgrading.

I used XP until more than a year after Win 7 was released before I installed it. Both for driver availability and to be sure most major bugs were fixed. And when I install a new OS I never perform an upgrade over the old one, I always install from scratch on an empty drive.
So far there is nothing in Win 10 that could persuade me to start using it, there is nothing I need.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

In my case I had set aside a test machine with freshly created Win7/64 loaded onto it, then cloning the hard drive to a backup drive. I tried a clean install of Win10 to another blank drive, but never got that working, so resorted to 'upgrading' from the fresh Win7.  Returning from Win10 to 7 would take a few minutes by swapping disks.

I'm now occupied in trying out basic software under W10. So far it looks quite good, but the GUI is making me crazy so first I have to find ways to rectify the situation. Imagine the mess on a desktop when there is nothing to indicate which windows is the active one?

[Björn Carlén]

To correct my post above, I can't believe my eye, so to speak: my eye-one is working like a breeze without further ado. Can it be that Win10 is using the driver from Win7 just like that?

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Probably, if the software existed on your machine prior to the upgrade to win10.

Or just reinstall iMatch - should do the trick.

[knb]

Does anyone know if the old Nikon Capture NX 2 still works in Win10? It will never be officially supported for sure...

[Bjørn J]

To correct my post above, I can't believe my eye, so to speak: my eye-one is working like a breeze without further ado. Can it be that Win10 is using the driver from Win7 just like that?

Just remember that if you have a hardware-calibrated monitor you should not install the calibration software from xrite - only the USB-driver so Windows can recognize the device. For calibration you must install the software from the monitor manufacturer.

[BEZ]

Does anyone know if the old Nikon Capture NX 2 still works in Win10? It will never be officially supported for sure...

Yes it still works

Cheers

[Frank Fremerey]

My calibration was saved, only little adjustment necessary. Also the i1Display2 and i1Match3 still do theit job. Unusual for a driver graphics change, all the more unusual for an OS upgrade. Good Job Microsoft!

[Frank Fremerey]

Or just reinstall iMatch - should do the trick.

iMatch worked without tricks till win7. For Win8 and Win8.1 a little trick is required: You have to get the i1-driver from a third party that comes with third party software. I did use the driver included in the test package of Basiccolor. X-Rite does not support Win8+.

[Frank Fremerey]

Could someone tell me where to find Win10 drivers for gretag McBeth/x-rite i1 display 2?

http://www.basiccolor.de/en/

[knb]

Does anyone know if the old Nikon Capture NX 2 still works in Win10? It will never be officially supported for sure...

Yes it still works

Thanks a lot Bez. I suppose I will give it a try soon then...

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Most existing software (win7/8) will follow over into Win10. The issue is getting the stuff installed under 10 if it didn't exist previously. In Win10, you need digitally signed drivers which can be an issue for legacy soft- or hardware. Plus some software checks for OS compatibility before allowing itself to  be installed. In such cases, running the program in a VM is the easier option.

It is possible to enforce non-signed drivers being accepted by some insider tricks during the booting stage. Better understood by searching for the procedure steps than writing a long description myself.

I got my Xrite device up and running in this manner on the W10 test box .

[Björn Carlén]

Just remember that if you have a hardware-calibrated monitor you should not install the calibration software from xrite - only the USB-driver so Windows can recognize the device. For calibration you must install the software from the monitor manufacturer.

I don't understand what you mean. I've been using drivers from xrite, since gretag mcbeth did not support Win7. It's been working fine, and it still does. By hardware calibration you mean the different settings on the actual display, right? Contrast, brightness, white balance. When that is set, the software does the fine tuning and creates a profile.  Am I wrong here?