Question Does HDR work right in Windows 10, after a year of updates?

[WINTERLORD]

i know people use windows 11 to benefit from HDR but can i benefit from HDR with windows 10 also since has been awhile or do i really need windows 11 for a HDR monitor

 

[punkncat]

I don't specifically know the answer to your query, but will say that on the two compatible monitors I have for HDR that it looks insane terrible on both of them. Way too saturated and drifts off to red very badly.

 

[WINTERLORD]

you mean on windows 10 with bopth your monitors? not both as in windows 10 and 11?

 

[dwd999]

i know people use windows 11 to benefit from HDR but can i benefit from HDR with windows 10 also since has been awhile or do i really need windows 11 for a HDR monitor

It works just as well on Windows 10 as it does on Windows 11. Who says it doesn't work on Windows 10? Who are these people? Let them name a specific program or game that it doesn't work on.

 

[kerberos_20]

It works just as well on Windows 10 as it does on Windows 11. Who says it doesn't work on Windows 10? Who are these people? Let them name a specific program or game that it doesn't work on.

hmmm..i havent used win10 since win11 got released...but hdr on win10 back than was pretty much grey/washed out desktop, so hdr only in games or on hdr videos, mixed sdr/hdr content was unusable...
on win11 with hdr, it looks fine, sdr desktop/apps looks even better then when hdr is turned off, as it can do 10bit sdr in hdr mode
so..since win11 no need to turning of hdr when i want to see sdr content (like desktop or everything non hdr)
maybe win10 got fixed already? does it have hdr calibration tool? list time ive used win 10, there was just HDR video calibration...but it didnt create advanced color icc profile like win11 does...maybe it changed? been a while since ive used win10

 

[dwd999]

hmmm..i havent used win10 since win11 got released...but hdr on win10 back than was pretty much grey/washed out desktop, so hdr only in games or on hdr videos, mixed sdr/hdr content was unusable...
on win11 with hdr, it looks fine, sdr desktop/apps looks even better then when hdr is turned off, as it can do 10bit sdr in hdr mode
so..since win11 no need to turning of hdr when i want to see sdr content (like desktop or everything non hdr)
maybe win10 got fixed already? does it have hdr calibration tool? list time ive used win 10, there was just HDR video calibration...but it didnt create advanced color icc profile like win11 does...maybe it changed? been a while since ive used win10

I've only been using an hdr monitor since July 2022 so I don't know how any version of windows dealt with hdr before that. But since then I've always left hdr turned on with both w10 and w11 and it looks the same with both. W10 is limited to the hdr/sdr balance setting so it doesn't have w11's calibration or color profile capabilities, but I've never felt the need for such things. With updated video players (I use mpc-hc64 set to pass through hdr to the monitor) it looks the same in either W10 or W11 using either the LG 27EP950 or the Samsung S90C 65" hdr oled screens (although the Samsung S90C is set for higher brightness and contrast than the LG is capable of). Other than the icc color profile thing I don't see any difference between the 2 windows versions.