I am not impressed by the screen calibration on this laptop compared to my 2020 Razer Blade 15. They are both OLED. The Blade is 4k, but more importantly it just looks better for videos of any kind. I can watch any video from any source without the need to do any tweaking other than just basic adjustment to my liking. Faces just look natural, which is what counts. On the G16 most streaming services looks like way off to me. I can't seem to get any consistency from one video to another, whether Youtube, Prime, or any other streaming services. Even two movies on the same service look way off from each other. I don't seem to have this problem on the Blade or on my Macbook. Even my old 2k Samsung VR panel looks better after I tweaked it to my liking.
Nvidia has somewhat better settings when using that GPU, but I would rather just use the Intel GPU for watching videos to have decent battery life and not sound like a jet engine. The main issue is there are only two basic ways to adjust the Intel settings that I know of and both are very limited. One is the janky Windows color calibration where there is no way to adjust brightness and contrast on a laptop, but you can do their version of Gamma which might not reflect what you are actually watching. The other is download Intel Graphics Command Center which does brightness and contrast but no gamma, and nowhere near the features that Nvidia control panel would have and definitely nothing like a modern TV. Even the Video section applies to videos you downloaded and are playing through an app like VLC.
I don't know of any third party apps other than expensive hardware calibration tools, and I can't find an icc profile for this laptop monitor. This laptop is giving me headaches even all PWM flickering aside. Other OLEDs don't bother me, it's just the constant tweaking that's frustrating and never being able to get things to not look too contrasty with highs blown out, too dark, too much shadow, not enough punch, unnatural skin tones, muddy faces or sunburned look, too much saturation or too washed out. It mostly just looks bad on most sources other than games.
I'm hoping someone knows of some third party app that can provide better control over the intel GPU or a well calibrated ICC profile. Also some settings might be helpful. Even though all screens are a bit different any calibration is probably better than the default. At least that's been my experience with badly calibrated TVs. Some people don't notice, but there is a huge difference when trying to make people look natural.
