Windows 10: With HDR enabled, Windows 10 desktop colors sometimes look washed-out, but fixed after...

I have HDR enabled in display settings, and sometimes after logging in to Windows, the desktop colors come out looking very washed out. The colors get fixed after I restart the video drivers by pressing Windows+Ctrl+Shift+B. Sometimes it takes a couple of tries, though.

I'm using Acer XV272U monitor with an Nvidia RTX 2070 graphics card. However, this issue also happened with my previous graphics card, an AMD Radeon RX 470. So it's likely to be a problem with Windows, and not with the graphics card drivers or monitor.

Appreciate if anyone have some insight on this issue.

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HDR and Washed out colors

What's up guys so my new monitor is HDR compatible however whenever I enable HDR in games, it makes them look terrible. The colors are super washed out, the brights are dull and the blacks are boosted to like a grey-ish. I've updated the monitor firmware and installed the latest driver for it. Right now, my normal color settings look more HDR then HDR it's self, lol. I've tried 3 games- BF5, FC5, and AC Odyssey. All with the same results.

 

HDR Washed out on Windows 10

That was suggested in post number 3 I thought?

 

"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.