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  1. Ariune Win User

    My HDR is turned on why does it shut off when I fullscreen a game?


    Whenever I fullscreen a video game, my HDR seems to turn off. I can tell because the colors became more saturated and vibrant all of sudden and it hurts my eyes. I notice that the "HDR" small icon appears for a few seconds on the top right of my monitor when I minimize the game or exit fullscreen, and HDR is back on. It's like HDR is turning off when the game is fullscreen. Could you help me figure out why this is happening?

    :)
     
    Ariune, Aug 18, 2024
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  2. Turning HDR makes color washed out and dull. Fullscreen in games ignores color settings.

    I just bought a vesa certified hdr400 monitor and when I turn on windows HDR it looks more like the gamma just got cranked up. I can go turn the contrast up in nvidia control panel and it sort of balances out, but when I go fullscreen in games it lookes
    pale and washed out as if I never made adjustments. The games work well with HDR in windowed, but not windowed borderless or fullscreen. Games I've tried this with include Doom eternal and Sea of Theives.

    I'm running a 2070 super on the most recent graphics driver. Windows is up to date.
     
    HaydenJudy, Aug 18, 2024
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  3. gamerk2 Win User
    HDR fullscreen problems

    Version: Windows 10 17134

    GPU: NVIDIA 1080 Ti (Driver 397.31)

    Display: LG OLED 55" B6P

    Problem: Windows HDR implementation barely works properly. Here's a list of issues I've seen so far:

    1: SDR applications that are not exclusive fullscreen start in HDR mode, distorting the colors. If an OS overlay [such as the volume overlay] come up, the display will go blank until the overlay dissapears.

    2: SDR applications that are exclusive fullscreen go blank. From what I can see, my display is in SDR mode, so I'm guessing there's a mismatch between Windows trying to output HDR content and the display receiving it. [And no, the problem is on Windows
    end; the display can handle HDR just fine on other systems]

    3: I've had a case where an SDR application, on exit, somehow resulted in the system HDR setting being disabled. I've also had another case where on exit the system is reporting its in HDR mode, but outputting SDR even on the desktop.

    So in short: Windows is not managing HDR properly.
     
    gamerk2, Aug 18, 2024
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  4. My HDR is turned on why does it shut off when I fullscreen a game?

    Windows 10 forcing HDR on Exclusive Fullscreen

    Just noticed recently that if I have HDR enable, Windows 10 will try and force HDR on every game if its set to Exclusive Full screen regardless if the game supports HDR or not. This normally results in a terrible image for games that dont support HDR. The only fix seems to be disabling HDR in Windows 10 or switching the game to borderless fullscreen. Noticed this seems to be a recent issue and wondered if its caused by a recent Windows 10 Update and/or Nvidia drive update??
     
    sparkster2301, Aug 18, 2024
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