World first QD-OLED monitor from Dell and Samsung (34 inch Ultrawide 175hz)
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For what it's worth (I don't own the monitor as you know) but the principle with the slider is the same. I set SDR brightness to full and just use the displays controls to adjust the brightness.
But yeah it is just a case of enable hdr, auto hdr and then adjust sdr brightness.
But yeah it is just a case of enable hdr, auto hdr and then adjust sdr brightness.
Where you at @Nexus18 ? Someone take your monitor away?
Tomorrow
Back on the ips 34" now, very weird going back! Hopefully have the second one with me for the weekend but not too bothered tbh as far too busy atm.
As for hdr stuff, I only turn hdr on for hdr content and if the game doesn't auto switch for me. I also just keep auto hdr turned on.
Lol. Poor Nexus
Tomorrow
Back on the ips 34" now, very weird going back! Hopefully have the second one with me for the weekend but not too bothered tbh as far too busy atm.
As for hdr stuff, I only turn hdr on for hdr content and if the game doesn't auto switch for me. I also just keep auto hdr turned on.
Ah, so you turn HDR switch on and off all the time? I thought the point of Windows 11 was not needing to do that?
@mrk do you and others also turn hdr switch on and off all the time also?
Man of Honour
I only turn it on manually for Cyberpunk and then off again when out of the game. Movies auto switch on HDR via MPC-BE though through HDR signal passthrough in MPC Video Renderer. I don't use HDR in anything else or really care that much for it!
Windows itself and apps are not great with HDR being enabled on the desktop. Your brightness will be whack and colours will be whack. SDR all the way.
Windows itself and apps are not great with HDR being enabled on the desktop. Your brightness will be whack and colours will be whack. SDR all the way.
Turning it on and off all the time it is then I guess
Was hoping Windows 11 had a way of sorting that out. But basically it is the same as Windows 10 where you have to turn it on before playing . So the main thing you get in Windows 11 is the Auto HDR which tries to make non HDR games look like they have HDR. Not tried that yet.
I wonder if the SDR brightness slider has any impact on the Auto HDR?
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Man of Honour
If you install XBOX Game Bar from the MS Store then it ends up being a simple case of pressing WINKEY+ALT+B 
Oh yea. Forgot about that. I think that's the way to go thenIf you install XBOX Game Bar from the MS Store then it ends up being a simple case of pressing WINKEY+ALT+B
Any idea about the SDR brightness slider? May I ask what yours is set on if you can take a look please? By default mine was on quite high, but some online say default is zero. I am not sure if it would have any impact on auto hdr, I will need to have a play about with it and see maybe if no one knows.
Man of Honour
Oh yeah, I had a play with that and a value of 10 closely matched the overall SDR brightness when the screen was not in HDR mode so I left it at that. Auto HDR was off of course.
Man of Honour
Yeah that coincides with your preferred brightness too so makes perfect sense. Maybe one day in the not too distant future, SDR<>HDR will be seamless and the native mode on all monitors is just HDR anyway. We are a long way off from that though.
Yeah. Shame. I was hoping it worked seemlesly in Windows 11. But yea, as you say we are a long way off before it all becomes standard. Maybe Windows 12 will have a feature that helps with it that is only on that to make people upgrade
Thanks for all the help by the way
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No worries!
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It’s amazing to me that windows can’t flip between sdr and hdr based on content. W11 is such low effort.
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Yeah been 3 or 4 month's wait on order's for a couple week's now, I'm August 5th not in any rush use to waiting now after two year's of covid delay's on everything wanting to buy.
Will have my 3300 Dell reward points to spend later, there pending.
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Man of Honour
It can, but the source application/game needs to send the HDR signal direct to the display, then Windows will do the switching. I use MPC-BE for example that does exactly that. Load a HDR movie and MPC Video Renderer (or any other you use that supports HDR passthrough) will trigger Windows to switch to HDR mode. It will then go back when you close the movie.
What needs to happen with more software is devs need to implement the HDR trigger in games, and browsers need to have additional hooks to passthrough the HDR signal to the display so when you browse say a YouTube video that is HDR, it does the same thing. The only issue I can imagine with the latter is that it will get very annoying as the display takes a few seconds to switch between SDR and HDR in this generation. Maybe in future the switchover will be seamless.
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What they really needed to do was make a format that provides HDR as a superset of SDR signals without needing the display to switch mode.
Such as 40/50Bit per pixel where the last 10 bits is for the HDR Meta etc. If the signal is zero for the HDR channel then just use the monitors SDR brightness setting for displaying that pixel/content. This of course would work best for self emissive displays as individual windows could be displaying SDR or HDR content next to one another.
Such as 40/50Bit per pixel where the last 10 bits is for the HDR Meta etc. If the signal is zero for the HDR channel then just use the monitors SDR brightness setting for displaying that pixel/content. This of course would work best for self emissive displays as individual windows could be displaying SDR or HDR content next to one another.
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Did you get your vouchers already?
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No will get them closer to monitor dispatch, just says pending now should have been more clear will edit my previous post.
Was talking about the extra 2200 points which came few day's after the normal 1100 points so 3300 in total from buying this monitor at triple rewad points, all pending.
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