I have never heard of a OLED screen without HDR/DV. Check windows display settings to make sure HDR is enabled. Also, asus OLED laptops come with OLED protection features enabled by default one of which is “flicker free dimming” which is disabled if windows HDR is turned on.
There is no option to enable HDR in windows, checked a lot but just did not work.
oleds on mobile often dont support HDR, probably its similar.
I think if i remember right its an amoled screen on laptop with max 600nits.
I had checked, that panel is supposed to support HDR, but windows did not allow. Tried installing latest drivers too. Did not work. Gave it up.
I read other people had similar problems, dunno.
I have the Vivobook Pro and it supports HDR just fine on Windows. It has the 120 Hz Samsung panel.
This one is Vivobook go, cheapest one was at 30k in last sale. Only option windows gives is to enable HDR streaming or something but that doesnt do anything.
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That is different, some mobile brands to keep cost low cut down on paying certification fee resulting in not getting HDR10 certification which means any OTT service will not show the option of HDR version of videos for playback on that mobile even if the screen itself is capable of HDR10. This however won’t be an issue with downloaded videos from internet. My relative has older version of asus oled laptop & HDR is enabled in windows there just fine.
If it gives you that option then that means screen has HDR capability. If you really want to test it then download some good quality HDR video from internet & then download non-HDR aka SDR version of same video & play them one after another. You should be able to see the difference with HDR video looking better.
Dunno, ill see if disabling ‘Flicker Free’ changes something. HDR option was just greyed out.
No, there is another HDR toggle that actually enables HDR. This streaming one does nothing, i tested it on edge browser + youtube, HDR option was not available.
One thing i will try in future is when we get good non experimental support for HDR on linux live cd, then check it there. I did try an experimental one, but while it allowed me to enable HDR, it did not look like HDR at all. It was def SDR.
There is another reviewer who said the same on amazon. Just search HDR in reviews.
Maybe there is something wrong with AMD drivers (installed latest one too after DDU) or Asus did not enable HDR for this one.
Anyway, leave it. people will start complaining as this is deal thread : )
Even without HDR, its def worth it as oled sdr is much better than ips.
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you can get a lot of utility by playing local HDR content through something like PotPlayer and dialing in the video settings manually
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Yep. My Vivobook Pro too shows that it has VESA Display HDR capability but there is no toggle to turn HDR on. There is standard SDR colour profile and no other colour profile to choose too. I guess we have to live with them.
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there are mobile devices with HDR.
yes ofc.
So far i have only played few local HDR movies on desktop by running reshade via special k over video player. Just wierd, even though vlc i think supports HDR but i couldn’t configure it properly.
Haven’t bothered much as i usually watch HDR on Primevideo where HDR can be very good. Will try Potplayer. Mostly i use it on games.
Zenbook 13 - has HDR, turned off because of higher power consumption.
Even on mains power connected? That makes no sense.
My Dad’s laptop has HDR. Youtube videos can be played in HDR once windows setting is turned on. The specs also clearly mentioned peak HDR brightness.
Asus is probably lying on these cheaper laptops, product description does mention HDR.
Maybe they cheapened out on a connector or something ..
Parents are still happy because OLED image is soo much better. And hardly any HDR content for them to watch. So its fine..
Its still possible that its some issue on win11/amd drivers for this laptop.
That is unlikely because there isn’t much point in making an oled screen without HDR capability & there isn’t any “extra certification cost” like in case of mobiles. This is most likely a technical issue on asus/windows side.
yeah hopefully, will try a linux live cd with oob HDR support when i feel like it, once i test it and confirm that linux HDR works on my desktop.
He is happy with it anyway.
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PotPlayer specifically has way better HDR tonemapping down to SDR, VLC is very very bad in comparison
ok, will try it for fun, but i don’t want to tonemap it to SDR, just to 1000nits.
I dont know what vlc was doing by default, but it looked fine with native HDR video + SpecialK HDR raw out + reshade tonemapping. Basically what i do in games that don’t support native HDR.
Dunno what i was doing, just sounds wrong but it looked ok and better than SDR videos with the same process. Did not bother with it much though.
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