DisplayCal makes my screen pale and barely readable

[Peter Wormington]

Hi guys!
I’ve been using DisplayCal with a Spyder X Pro for my Windows PC for ages and it’s been great. I just got a macbook pro and installed eoyilmaz’s DisplayCal, but I tried to install my old profile or a new one and it’s instead turned my Macbook screen pale white, like it’s so hard to read anything. I’ve tried changing the colour profile in display settings, uninstalling DisplayCal, restarting etc but so far nothing will fix it back to normal. I’m on a tight deadline now so stressing out about this – any ideas to fix this? I’d love to get it working, but honestly I’ll take just the normal screen back now

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[Vincent]

Change preset to Display P3 D65 or shomething like that (the preset that has P3 D65 500 nit or lower, I do not remember the whole list, show it to us if you do not know), effectively turning off HDR.
Your screenshot shows that you were in an HDR mode (Apple XDR Display P3 1600not) and after you change display profile macOS does not know how to encode SDR desktop in HDR encoded data set to display.

While in HDR modes use default display profile in macOS and nothing else. Restoring default profile shoudl sholve the issue too: displaycal, change preset to “current” in upper combo, close DIsplayCAL, close all Spyder/Datacolor apps, choose default apple profile for that XDR mode in macOS display configuration.

Do not use Spyder software or DisplayCAL while in HDR mode.

Also for XDR displays instead of doing full calibration, adjust only whitepoint using macOS tools: primaries and TRC should be on place versus default Apple display profile.
You can use ArgyllCMS/DisplayCAL to get a measurement of current whitepoint. macOS’ custom configuration for XDR display will ask you those numbers, actual CIE xyY coordinates.

[Kuba Trybowski]

You have a very inaccurate instrument. You should buy an i1 Display Pro:

• X-Rite i1 Display Pro/Pro Plus;
• Calibrite ColorChecker Display Pro/Plus;
• Calibrite Display Pro HL/Plus HL;

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