Simulate paper and ink during soft proofing in Lightroom Classic have no effect on the image

[Martin71433403]

Hello Community. I use Lightroom Classic as my main photo editor and I wish to use it for soft proofing and printing as well. Unfortunately I'm experiencing an issue when trying to soft proof in the develop module. In soft proof mode, when I choose a paper profile and then when I select the "Simulator Paper & Ink" option, it has no effect what so ever on the image in the proof preview. When I toggle "Simulate Paper & Ink" on and off, I see that the proof matte around the image changes according to the selected paper profile just as expected, but no change happens to the image itself.

I have tried everything to solve this issue: selecting different paper profiles, reinstalling Lightroom a couple of times, reverting back to older versions of Lightroom from my current version 14.2, resetting Lightroom preferences several times and also reinstalling my graphics driver in Windows 11. I also tried disabling GPU acceleration in the Lightroom preferences, as well as disabling monitor and destination gamut warnings. Yesterday I chatted with Adobe support to see if they might have a solution but nothing came of it. I'm simply running out of ideas as to how to solve this issue which is why I am now posting this message to you guys in the community. Hope that someone might have an idea about what is going on.

[Martin71433403]

Sorry, Johan was it.

[JohanElzenga]

I did not suggest the Game Ready driver, I thought your driver wasn't up to date. I deleted that comment shortly after that, because I found I was mistaken.

[Martin71433403]

Fair enough, Johan. I appreciate you trying to help and find what basically feels like a needle in a haystack.

[Per Berntsen]

This is how the image looks on my computer.

It does not change when soft proofing without checking Simulate paper and ink, but with that option checked, the image changes quite a lot.

So you are seeing no change in the image when Simulate paper and ink is checked?

[Martin71433403]

I sent you the most extreme ICC profile I could find in my collection and that is exactly the change I would expect to see, Per. Thank you for trying it out.
But yes, that is correct. The proof matte around the image changes exactly as it does on your computer, but I don't see any change whatsoever in the image itself when "Simulate Paper & Ink" is checked. It's a bit of a mystery, I think, how that is possible.

This is how the image looks on my computer.

It does not change when soft proofing without checking Simulate paper and ink, but with that option checked, the image changes quite a lot.

So you are seeing no change in the image when Simulate paper and ink is checked?

By @Per Berntsen