Windows 10: HDR Screenshots

Hi all,

So i recently got a new computer & a HDR monitor to go with it. Everything looks really nice, but i do have an issue with taking screenshots or using the snipping tool.

the pictures that are captured while HDR is turned on looks really washed out, is there a fix to this? its really annoying to have to remember to turn HDR off every time i want to take screenshot, then to turn it back on after. Also it does this if i stream or record videos.

https://preview.redd.it/wasfmz60hah...bp&s=640e8ffb0e436868392b4a0c8c369c677b608a50

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Screenshot functionality seems to fail when one of two screens is in HDR mode

OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Pro

Version 10.0.17134 Build 17134

Geforce 1050 Ti driver 418.91

I have one screen in 1920x1080@144Hz (ASUS VG248QE) and a second screen in 3840x2160@60Hz (BenQ PD2700U, 4K).

HDR is enabled on the 4K screen.

Problem statement:

When using the screenshot function that I've demonstrated with Snip, the image colours on the HDR screen are badly affected.

Evidence:

The demonstration image shows a reference PNG image (Kodak Image 08) on Internet Explorer being shown on both screens. The HDR screen holds the right side of the image.

The same result is shown with other screenshot applications (e.g. Greenshot).

The issue is not present when using just the HDR screen.

Question:

It appears that the screenshot functionality cannot handle the difference between HDR and non-HDR displays and treats the HDR pixels as non-HDR, losing colour information. I'd guess this is a bug and suggest that the screenshot methods should default to
the HDR image and translate non-HDR pixels to HDR versions.

Image below.

 

Screenshot functionality seems to fail when one of two screens is in HDR mode

Thanks Vijay,

The issue is not fixed, but I submitted the bug using your suggestion:

Windows Key+F

Even though my telemetry settings are locked down, when launching the app it took a screenshot of my full desktop - which is enough.

I'll disable HDR as a workaround.

 

Windows 10 HDR problems in full screen.

Hello moderator

1. Its all the games I own that don't support HDR10. Basically when I full screen on a non-HDR game, the screen goes black for a few seconds and HDR gets disabled and all the colors looked washed out (Like its in SDR)

I took 2 screenshots, One is in window mode, the other is in full screen

Windowed mode (HDR on) : Imgur

Full screen mode (HDR off) : Imgur

2. Yes SDR looks washed out. I want to play my games in full screen and in HDR. Playing in windowed mode is a nightmare

3. I know because the monitor goes black for a few seconds and all the colors look washed out (As shown in the screenshots)

Sadly the fixes did not work

I updated the GPU drivers via GeForce Experience app.

My Monitor does support 4k HDR10

I tried lower the resolution and the refresh rate but that did not work.

Here is a video of my problem

YouTube Link :

Time Stamps :

0:00 HDR mode is on everything looks fine (In the video, when it looks high contrast, that means HDR is on)

0:35 I full screen the game. If you notice the high contrast is no longer there, the colors are washed out

0:46 I disable full screen and HDR mode is back on

*HDR looks high contrast, Ignore that, that's just the video itself.

Im also using windows 10 64bit 1809