Microsoft is rolling out a month-to-month replace to Home windows 11 that features some necessary updates to HDR help within the working system. The updates let you hold HDR disabled throughout the entire of Home windows, however nonetheless stream HDR video in all its glory, alongside extra management over Dolby Imaginative and prescient.
The most recent KB5058499 update is offered to all Home windows 11 customers proper now if you happen to’ve enabled the “get the most recent updates as quickly as they’re accessible” possibility in Home windows Replace. As soon as it’s put in, now you can toggle the flexibility to stream HDR video possibility even when HDR is disabled in Home windows, permitting you to view HDR content material from apps like Netflix or web sites like YouTube with out having to allow HDR all through Home windows.
Microsoft can also be updating Home windows 11’s HDR help to let you independently toggle Dolby Imaginative and prescient help in content material or all through Home windows. Dolby Imaginative and prescient was once compelled on inside Home windows if you happen to enabled it in your monitor, so it’s good to have the choice to have the ability to toggle it on or off.
These new choices are nice for individuals who merely disable HDR in Home windows due to its patchy help. I personally disable HDR in Home windows and use the keyboard shortcut (Home windows Key + Alt + B) to allow it in video games that correctly help it, just because I depend on quite a lot of content material seize instruments for screenshots and display recording that produce a washed out picture as a result of they don’t correctly help HDR or present a strategy to seize particular person SDR content material.
Whereas HDR help in Home windows has improved over the previous yr due to the most recent batch of OLED screens, I’d nonetheless prefer to see sport builders and Microsoft take HDR extra severely. Auto HDR is great for games, nevertheless it’s nonetheless a extremely fiddly and handbook course of to get HDR to work properly throughout quite a lot of apps and video games in Home windows.