Microsoft is rolling out a month-to-month replace to Home windows 11 that features some essential updates to HDR assist within the working system. The updates mean you can 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 update is on the market to all Home windows 11 customers proper now if you happen to’ve enabled the “get the most recent updates as quickly as they’re out there” possibility in Home windows Replace. As soon as it’s put in, now you can toggle the power to stream HDR video possibility 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 be updating Home windows 11’s HDR assist to mean you can 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 if you happen to 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 technique to seize particular person SDR content material.
Whereas HDR assist in Home windows has improved over the previous 12 months because of the most recent batch of OLED displays, I’d nonetheless wish to see sport builders and Microsoft take HDR extra severely. Auto HDR is nice for video games, but it surely’s nonetheless a very fiddly and guide course of to get HDR to work nicely throughout a wide range of apps and video games in Home windows.