Windows 11 poor HDR implementation?
Hello dear community,
Maybe someone can share their experience with HDR in Windows 11 with me. I just feel like as soon as I enable HDR, normal SDR content looks weird. Sure, HDR content looks great, but everything else somehow doesn't. On my phone (Pixel 6 Pro), everything is displayed perfectly, and when I watch HDR content, it looks even better. So why does Windows 11 look so weird with HDR enabled?
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I can't understand myself.
Have a graphics card from AMD, an HDR10 capable 4K screen, and also Windows 11. Play 95% of games with static auto-HDR (of convenience) even if dynamic HDR would look better.
But as soon as I change to SDR, the image looks normal, just as I know it from before my HDR screen.
What could be a lot more the case, I personally noticed. As soon as you have tasted HDR10 correctly, SDR has a lot of trouble compared. But this is more a subjective perception on my part, and probably has more to do with the changeover, similar to when you go from a dark room into daylight, the eye has to adapt a little.
Soberly, the image in SDR looks exactly as it should look. Have a projector which unfortunately can't have an HDR, because I always notice the effect. For a long time, but on the couch I don't notice it anymore. Then you have this positive Aha effect again when you switch back to HDR directly on the monitor.
For me, the change to HDR10 was a real profit. No appreciable GPU load, but for this a qualitatively much more colorful image with larger differences between black and bright – especially in the case of sunrises and sunsets in games you notice it totally, or very contrasting scenes.
This is definitely nice to hear that others aren't. Games with Auto HDR I could really imagine. I'm talking about the normal desktop operation. But it can also be that the OLED panel does not wear it and it somehow comes to strange colors at SDR contents
That's possible. At least in my HW configuration, the effect does not seem to stop that the SDR image is really worse than ordinary SDR in non-HDR capable screens.
So even if I take HDR on my screen, it's normal SDR. It's a fool, but it's normal, like it used to.