Windows 10: Enable HDR in games but not Desktop?

Discus and support Enable HDR in games but not Desktop? in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; Is there a flag anywhere that would allow HDR in games without enabling the desktop HDR mode? Destiny 2 is able to go into HDR mode without me turning... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/smakkyoface, Jan 21, 2020.

  1. Enable HDR in games but not Desktop?


    Is there a flag anywhere that would allow HDR in games without enabling the desktop HDR mode? Destiny 2 is able to go into HDR mode without me turning it on the destop. But other games like Modern Warfare 2019 and Red Dead Redemption 2 don't even have the option unless I turn it on the desktop.

    Any ideas on how to bypass this and make the games have the option for HDR?

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    /u/smakkyoface, Jan 21, 2020
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    HDR won't enable!

    Same issue but its new. I dont have hdr on in win10 but games will turn it on themselves. Forza 7 used to do that but now it wont enable HDR
     
  3. HDR won't enable!

    I'm having the same issue described above and by everyone else in the thread. Before, HDR was greyed out because I had my 4k TV and my 2k monitor plugged in at the same time, so I started unplugging my monitor when I wanted to play/watch stuff in 4k because
    it allowed me to enable HDR and advanced color.

    Today, however, Windows said something about restart for an update and ever since then I haven't been able to enable HDR and advanced color. I click to turn it on, the screen goes black, pops up saying keep changes or revert and HDR is disabled again. I
    tried different resolutions and always had the same result. I tried another HDMI cable and same thing.

    Has anyone figured out what the cause is yet? I can't tell if HDR is enabled or not and the game I'm playing, Wolfenstein 2, allows you to enable/disable HDR in-game so I'm not in a rush to get this issue fixed but I would like to soon.

    First when I enabled HDR on my PC the screen was all hazey so I had to go into nvidia control panel and change the color settings. I set the desktop color depth to highest (32-bit), output color depth to 8 bpc (only option), output color format to YCbCr444,
    and output dynamic range to Limited (only option) and that fixed the haze issue. The color settings are still set to those despite HDR being disabled according to Windows display settings.
     
    SebbyWells, Jan 21, 2020
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  4. Enable HDR in games but not Desktop?

    Issue with games that dont use HDR but HDR enabled in Windows Display settings

    I have not tried all games yet, so far Titanfall 2 and DOOM (OGL and Vulkan) both have issues with having HDR enabled in Windows and running native 4k. The colors get all messed up. In TF2 most of the whites get replaced with black or purple and sometimes
    the white parts of the screen flicker. In DOOM the blacks get replaced with green. Since i had a custom res of 3840x2159 set in the nvidia cp ( because of wolfenstein 2), i set both games to that res and the colors went back to normal. So it seems if the
    game does not support HDR and you run at native res, you will have issues (?). Games that do support HDR work just fine (far cry 5, forza 7, bf1).

    Another note:

    This maybe specific to me but ill post it anyway. I use a Sony x900E as my display. It has color/display modes (generic, game, etc). I notice that the color issue is not preset with HDR@4k when the mode is Generic (its called Desktop mode in the nvidia
    cp).

    As im writing this, i remembered that GTA 5 did not have an issue, and im realizing the common denominator here: TAA. I dont have TAA enabled in GTA 5. I wonder if that is the issue since DOOM and TF2 use TAA (temporal anti-aliasing). I will go back and
    try disabling TAA in those games and report back.
     
    GeorgeBRak, Jan 21, 2020
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