HDR screen weird colors

[Thomas.dk]

Hi All.. First tread on this forum. Long time viewer of linus tho..

 

Just got my "new" LG 38WK95c monitor and was looking forward to finaly got HDR screen. But when i turn on HDR in windows i get a really doll picture and really what not what i expected

 

The colors are way more vivid without HDR enabled.. Of cause i tried diffrent settings but no luck.. Also installed drivers and so on

 

Any tips?

 

I attach 2 pictures taking with my phone..

 

 

[Sorenson]

Windows desktop is "SDR" so when you enable HDR it will look washed out. You only want to enable HDR when watching an HDR video or in games that require you to enable HDR in windows. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

Most images and GUI elements are designed with "SDR" in mind. When Windows switches to HDR, it changes the so-called color space from sRGB to something that covers a wider area. Windows doesn't try to map "SDR" elements to "HDR" directly, because it may lead to undesirable effects like blasting your eyes with a super bright image.

 

 

 

[Thomas.dk]

So there's no features that can enable HDR when playing a game and then disable it again when on desktop?

[Sorenson]

5 hours ago, Thomas.dk said:

So there's no features that can enable HDR when playing a game and then disable it again when on desktop?

You would think they would have this but no. If your game has an option to enable HDR you don’t need to enable it in windows, just the game. When the game is closed you will go back to SDR. 

[A_hungry_tall_dutchman]

There is something I found that works for me.

 

Go to Windows HD Color settings.
Scroll down and under the HDR/SDR brightness balance set it to max = 100.

This fixed it mostly for me you still can adjust the colors in your display drivers or monitor settings.

 

It's not the best but acceptable.

 

[Stahlmann]

7 hours ago, A_hungry_tall_dutchman said:

There is something I found that works for me.

 

Go to Windows HD Color settings.
Scroll down and under the HDR/SDR brightness balance set it to max = 100.

This fixed it mostly for me you still can adjust the colors in your display drivers or monitor settings.

 

It's not the best but acceptable.

 

This slider doesn't change anything about colors. It's only a slider to adjust how bright SDR content will be while you have HDR enabled.

A higher brightness does look more saturated to your eyes, but the values don't change.

 

If the HDR implementation on a monitor is so bad that the Windows desktop looks washed out it's probably best to leave it disabled all the time.

[ewitte]

Configure it then just win+alt+b when you have a game that supports it.  I didn't mess with it with normal monitors with crappy HDR but it is a huge improvement on my 48in OLED.

 

Not sure how a proper LCD HDR implementation works but the TV also automatically boosts from my SDR brightness of 50/50 to 100/100 when it detects HDR.