Windows 10: Dynamic HDR Switching?

Running Windows 10 (1909) with a Nvidia 2080Ti on a Samsung CRG9.

Some games (for example, Destiny 2) will automatically switch to HDR when launched, even if the HDR option isn't turned on in Windows. Most games, though (for example, Sea of Thieves and Modern Warfare) won't. For those games, I have to go into the Windows HD Color settings, enable HDR, launch the game, then disable HDR support again in Windows when I'm finished playing.

Is there a way to make those games in the latter category automatically switch to HDR support, without needing to enable and then disable HDR every time in Windows?

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"HDR and advanced color" setting automatically switches back to "Off" when turned "On".

The implementation of HDR isn't very good. Windows 10 doesn't use dynamic HDR switching, so if you toggle it on, that means SDR content will have HDR applied to it (like the desktop). This means your desktop will look dim, washed out and text will have
artifacts around it, even though the color space is 10-bit YCC422. Microsoft needs to either have HDR switch dynamically to content that uses HDR, or have some sort of conversion that applies 10-bit YCC422 rec. 2020 color space to the 709 color space, so
the desktop and SDR content looks normal.

You can reduce the resolution to 4k@30 hz which might help the text artifacts, but it won't help the dim and washed out colors for SDR content (like your desktop).

Most people turn the HDR toggle off and only turn it on when they are going to play a game or watch content that's HDR enabled.

 

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Hi Lin,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



In order to get clarity on this issue and assist you with appropriate troubleshooting steps, please reply with the answers to the questions below.

1. What is the make and model of your computer?
   
2. What is the make and model of your both monitors?
   
3. As you have given multiple versions of Windows 10, is this issue occurring on multiple computers?
   

Not all displays are optimized for HDR. If you have two displays and move the HDR video onto a display that’s not optimized for HDR, you’ll get the appropriate standard dynamic range (SDR) as soon as new content starts to play.



To play streaming high dynamic range (HDR) video in Windows 10, your external display and Windows 10 PC needs to support HDR. To find the specifications for a specific PC or external display, visit the device manufacturer’s website.



It might be that one of your monitors doesn’t' support HDR, so I suggest you to refer
Display requirements for HDR video in Windows 10 and check
if your monitors support HDR.



You may also refer Stream HDR video on Windows 10 and
HDR and WCG color settings in Windows 10 and check if this helps.



We're looking forward to your response.