DisplayCAL is dead, time to move on, what alternative you choosed?

[Boyan]

@Erkan – just wanted to express my gratitude for your hard work! Big BIG thank you! Installed 3.9.14 using the new MacOS installer without a problem (Macbook Pro M2 Max / Sonoma 14.6.1). Haven’t done a calibration yet (recently did so I’ll wait a few months) but everything seems to be working at first glance.

[Erkan Ozgur Yilmaz]

Thank you @Boyan, I’m glad to hear that it is working fine for you 👍

[leobar021]

Hi

I have installed DisplayCAL-3.9.14_macOS_x86 on Sonoma 14.7.1. but it keeps crashing after initial loading. Any advice… tnx in advance

[Erkan Ozgur Yilmaz]

@leobar021 what is your computer that you are installing on to, is it an Apple Silicon or an Intel?

[Shankar Narayanan]

I am still getting the “dispread.exe” cannot start error.

[Vincent]

I am still getting the “dispread.exe” cannot start error.

https://github.com/eoyilmaz/displaycal-py3/issues/424

For windows you’ll need to have installed the same python version as a workaround. And do not use any filename or path with whitespaces. Beware profile names, ti1 files and such. No whitespaces at all until it’s fixed,

[leobar021]

Any help would make my day 🙂

tnx in advanced

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• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by leobar021.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by leobar021.

[leobar021]

@leobar021 what is your computer that you are installing on to, is it an Apple Silicon or an Intel?

Mac Studio Apple M2 Max, osx Sonoma 14.7.1.

[Shankar Narayanan]

I am still getting the “dispread.exe” cannot start error.

https://github.com/eoyilmaz/displaycal-py3/issues/424

For windows you’ll need to have installed the same python version as a workaround. And do not use any filename or path with whitespaces. Beware profile names, ti1 files and such. No whitespaces at all until it’s fixed,

???

I am just using the installer package and I neither specify any file names etc. during the installation nor do I do anything with python. I have zero python coding experience. 🙁

[Vincent]

I am still getting the “dispread.exe” cannot start error.

https://github.com/eoyilmaz/displaycal-py3/issues/424

For windows you’ll need to have installed the same python version as a workaround. And do not use any filename or path with whitespaces. Beware profile names, ti1 files and such. No whitespaces at all until it’s fixed,

???

I am just using the installer package

And right now due to some bugd in WIndows installer… you’ll need the same python version installed in your computer to run it. As a requirement/workaround.

If it is not acceptable to you, keep using latest oficial version 3.8.9.3 till bugs are fixed

and I neither specify any file names etc.

Additionally you cannot use any argyll related file (CCSS, CMX, Ti1, Ti3) if it has spaces in its path.

[AdminMat]

Hello, I’m having the same issue today as Shankar did.  “The process C:\Users___\AppData\Roaming\DisplayCAL\dl\Argyll_V3.3.0\bin\dispread.exe could not be started.”  I get this error when starting the calibration.

I’m using the Windows installer version on Win11. Version 3.9.14 from Github.

I do not have 3rd party antivirus. Is there a way to get this working yet? This is my first time using DisplayCAL. Thanks.

[Vincent]

Explained above.

[Shankar Narayanan]

I am still getting the “dispread.exe” cannot start error.

https://github.com/eoyilmaz/displaycal-py3/issues/424

For windows you’ll need to have installed the same python version as a workaround. And do not use any filename or path with whitespaces. Beware profile names, ti1 files and such. No whitespaces at all until it’s fixed,

???

I am just using the installer package

And right now due to some bugd in WIndows installer… you’ll need the same python version installed in your computer to run it. As a requirement/workaround.

If it is not acceptable to you, keep using latest oficial version 3.8.9.3 till bugs are fixed

and I neither specify any file names etc.

Additionally you cannot use any argyll related file (CCSS, CMX, Ti1, Ti3) if it has spaces in its path.

Hi Vincent,

I did not say your suggestion is unacceptable. I just don’t understand the solution. Am I supposed to be coding compiling the package with Python or just have  python installed ? Where?

Also,, where will I go look for “argyll related file (CCSS, CMX, Ti1, Ti3) if it has spaces in its path” ??

[Vincent]

I am still getting the “dispread.exe” cannot start error.

https://github.com/eoyilmaz/displaycal-py3/issues/424

For windows you’ll need to have installed the same python version as a workaround. And do not use any filename or path with whitespaces. Beware profile names, ti1 files and such. No whitespaces at all until it’s fixed,

???

I am just using the installer package

And right now due to some bugd in WIndows installer… you’ll need the same python version installed in your computer to run it. As a requirement/workaround.

If it is not acceptable to you, keep using latest oficial version 3.8.9.3 till bugs are fixed

and I neither specify any file names etc.

Additionally you cannot use any argyll related file (CCSS, CMX, Ti1, Ti3) if it has spaces in its path.

Hi Vincent,

I did not say your suggestion is unacceptable. I just don’t understand the solution.

DisplayCAL is a python app. Developers compile it and package it.

DisplayCAL-3.9.14\lib\library.zip for Windows is not working as it should. It should store all the dependencies to python runtime but it is not working.

Am I supposed to be coding compiling the package with Python or just have  python installed ? Where?

No, just install python 3.11. Since it would be installed in your system, DisplayCAL will use it instead of embeded dependencies that are not working.

Also,, where will I go look for “argyll related file (CCSS, CMX, Ti1, Ti3) if it has spaces in its path” ??

Every file you use should not have whitespeces: report names, profile names… everything.

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[Vincent]

Unless you want to try things as an aerly adopter i will stay with current windows version (python2) till these things get fixed in Windows.
MacOS 3.9.14 seems to work as expected solving py2 version incompatibilities with Sonoma and sequoia

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