Microsoft is rolling out a month-to-month replace to Home windows 11 that features some vital updates to HDR assist within the working system. The updates assist you to hold HDR disabled throughout the entire of Home windows, however nonetheless stream HDR video in all its glory, alongside extra management over Dolby Imaginative and prescient.
The newest KB5058499 replace is out there to all Home windows 11 customers proper now should you’ve enabled the “get the newest updates as quickly as they’re obtainable” choice in Home windows Replace. As soon as it’s put in, now you can toggle the power to stream HDR video choice even when HDR is disabled in Home windows, permitting you to view HDR content material from apps like Netflix or web sites like YouTube with out having to allow HDR all through Home windows.
Microsoft can also be updating Home windows 11’s HDR assist to assist you to independently toggle Dolby Imaginative and prescient assist in content material or all through Home windows. Dolby Imaginative and prescient was pressured on inside Home windows should you enabled it in your monitor, so it’s good to have the choice to have the ability to toggle it on or off.
These new choices are nice for individuals who merely disable HDR in Home windows due to its patchy assist. I personally disable HDR in Home windows and use the keyboard shortcut (Home windows Key + Alt + B) to allow it in video games that correctly assist it, just because I depend on a wide range of content material seize instruments for screenshots and display recording that produce a washed out picture as a result of they don’t correctly assist HDR or present a strategy to seize particular person SDR content material.
Whereas HDR assist in Home windows has improved over the previous yr because of the newest batch of OLED displays, I’d nonetheless prefer to see recreation builders and Microsoft take HDR extra critically. Auto HDR is nice for video games, nevertheless it’s nonetheless a extremely fiddly and handbook course of to get HDR to work nicely throughout a wide range of apps and video games in Home windows.
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