Dropped $60 on a color calibration tool and my monitor still looks off

I finally bought a SpyderX last week after fighting with my screen's blue tint for months... but after running the calibration my greens look muddy and my whites are still off. Was it supposed to fix everything or do you really need to adjust the software settings too? Anyone else hit a wall with these things?

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keith_henderson11d ago

Did you calibrate with the room lights on or off? That tripped me up bad with my first calibrator. The software usually assumes you're in a dark room, but if you're running it with a lamp on or some daylight coming through the window, the sensor picks up that extra light and gives you weird muddy greens and off whites. I had to run mine three times before I realized the hallway light was bleeding under my door. Try closing the blinds and killing every light source in the room, then run the calibration again from scratch.

wendy_clark11d ago

Yeah the "bleeding light" thing is real. I had a similar issue with a strip of sunlight coming through my blinds, kept getting this weird yellow cast on my monitor. Blackout curtains fixed it for me, cheap ones from Amazon did the trick.