Over saturated colors when graphic acceleration is on, Intel UHD

Question

Description of Issue I am using LR CC on a small Lenovo desktop equipped with an i7 CPU and Intel on-board UHD graphics. I don't expect grand performance from this configuration, but I expect it to display colors correctly in Adobe products.  
 
When graphics acceleration is set to ON, display colors are over saturated, as if color management is not used, or not used correctly. When setting is OFF, colors display as expected (using LR Classic an other imaging software as references).
Lightroom Desktop Version Number (Help>System Info…)

LR CC 8.3.1
OS Version Number
W11 Home 24H2
Camera Model (sometimes necessary)

All Step-by-step Reproduction Instructions (in precise terms please)

Using LR CC version as of above. Program detects graphics card correctly and enables acceleration by default. Images in Edit and Display mode appear much too saturated, compared to reference software (LR Classic, Windows Photo viewer etc.). When graphic acceleration is set to OFF, images display with correct colors. Exported images appear correctly.

The Expected Result

Images should display with correct colors inside LR CC, otherwise editing will be off.

The Actual Result

See above

Other info

I am using a HW calibrated monitor (ViewSonic VP2785), I am fairly famililar with color management. The problem described pertains only to images displayed inside LR CC. It is not an issue with other software, including built-in MS Windows imaging tools. It appears as if LR CC does not interact correctly with the graphics subsystem, or that the graphic subsystem is unable to handle LR CC's requirements (even if the card is detected as supported, albeit limited).

fredrikk32083070 · Accepted Answer

Hey, @fredrikk32083070. Thanks for your patience. Lightroom's Edit view uses the ProPhoto color, and now it also supports HDR. Another variable is the custom-calibrated display. This makes it difficult for us to recreate it to investigate this further.

Your subscription also includes Lightroom Classic and Photoshop (with Camera Raw), which you can use to investigate this and deduce the root cause.

Thanks!
Sameer K
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Hi @Sameer K ,

Thanks for your response. Yes, there are many variables in this problem which makes it difficult to trace to the root. I have used LR Classic and Photoshop (and the Windows Photo viewer) as reference and found them to handle my set-up as expected.

But then I noticed that Chrome (with its in-browser Photo app) suffers the same problem, and that made me think more about color management. I tried to swap my calibrated monitor profile to a standard SRGB profile with no visible difference. I also played around with different hardware pre-set color profiles. This made everything shift, so that was not useful either.

Then I found this setting in Windows "Automatically manage color for apps". It was set to OFF, I change to ON - and just like that, my colors are consistent! Problem solved! More about this setting here Enable or Disable Auto Color Management for Apps in Windows 11 | Windows 11 Forum

Maybe there are side effects to this which I have yet to discover - but right now I am very happy.

fredrikk32083070 · Answer

Just to clarify - this is an issue with the display of images _inside_ LR CC. Exported images appear as expected.

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