Windows HDR10 Washed Out display problem

[Ayusin]

I recently got a new pc and I also bought a new monitor. The monitor has HDR10, But When I turned it on in display settings. Everything became bad, Like grayscale colors. I also used that windows hdr calibration software and adjusted blacks, whites and saturation. but That only fixed like 5% of the that grey issue. On TV The HDR shines, and that's how i became fan of it. But Here instead of increasing colors, it decreases them, instead of better contrast the contrast becomes bad. Does anyone know if it can solved?

 

[6pack]

It can be solved if you tell us the config of your pc.

 

[Ayusin]

It can be solved if you tell us the config of your pc.

Sorry but can you tell me in specific what details i have to tell?

 

[kartikoli]

Details of your processor, GPU, RAM are most important but feel free to share other info so we can see if your CPU is able to handle HDR. There is one thing you can do in the meantime is update your graphic driver through window update most of the times it will fix the problem automatically

 

[Ayusin]

Details of your processor, GPU, RAM are most important but feel free to share other info so we can see if your CPU is able to handle HDR. There is one thing you can do in the meantime is update your graphic driver through window update most of the times it will fix the problem automatically

Gpu: rx 7800xt 16gb OC
CPU: Ryzen 5 7600x
Monitor: ViewSonic VX2756A-2k-PRO-2

The Drivers are mostly updated Ig, As in AMD software it does say everything's updated. and windows is also upto date.

Also can someone pls like my comment? i need trophy points

 

[altair21]

I recently got a new pc and I also bought a new monitor. The monitor has HDR10, But When I turned it on in display settings. Everything became bad, Like grayscale colors. I also used that windows hdr calibration software and adjusted blacks, whites and saturation. but That only fixed like 5% of the that grey issue. On TV The HDR shines, and that's how i became fan of it. But Here instead of increasing colors, it decreases them, instead of better contrast the contrast becomes bad. Does anyone know if it can solved?

monitor model? HDR on Windows is pretty much a miss, I wont recommend it to anyone unless you temporarily turn it on for games/movies

 

[Ayusin]

monitor model? HDR on Windows is pretty much a miss, I wont recommend it to anyone unless you temporarily turn it on for games/movies

I wanted to use it only for games and movies only. But it is just greyish in movies and games.

 

[altair21]

I just looked up the monitor, peak brightness is just 300 nits, that HDR thing is just a gimmick,

 

[Ayusin]

I just looked up the monitor, peak brightness is just 300 nits, that HDR thing is just a gimmick,

Dammit. Shit then

 

[OMEGA44-XT]

Your monitor is not true HDR monitor, as simple as that.

My Asus 1440p 170Hz (400nits) monitor also claims to be HDR compatible but HDR looks washed out. I bought an LG C3 few months ago & HDR looks great on it honestly. Still I feel as if LG's webOS processes HDR better than Win11.

 

[6pack]

Change the color profile to DCI-P3 and see if it helps. As others said the monitor is just 8 bit panel and HDR support is a gimmick. It supports DCI-P3 profile so it might just make the color conversion from sd to hdr properly. you get washed out colors when the profiles mismatch between gpu, os and monitor. So you will need to see what profile your gpu is set to output, what icc profile windows is on, and what icc profile the monitor supports.

 

[altair21]

also, one thing, this is just for movies, if you want accurate colors without hdr, look into madVR, its the best tonemapping solution currently available but it takes up a lot of power to run

 

[Ayusin]

Change the color profile to DCI-P3 and see if it helps. As others said the monitor is just 8 bit panel and HDR support is a gimmick. It supports DCI-P3 profile so it might just make the color conversion from sd to hdr properly. you get washed out colors when the profiles mismatch between gpu, os and monitor. So you will need to see what profile your gpu is set to output, what icc profile windows is on, and what icc profile the monitor supports.

It was amd freesync causing issue ig. I turned that off and i see that greyish tone almost vanished. only like 5% was remaining. Also My monitor says it's 8+fsr (10bit). any idea what that is?

also, one thing, this is just for movies, if you want accurate colors without hdr, look into madVR, its the best tonemapping solution currently available but it takes up a lot of power to run

That's something really nice info you gave. I have already downloaded it and will install it.

Your monitor is not true HDR monitor, as simple as that.

My Asus 1440p 170Hz (400nits) monitor also claims to be HDR compatible but HDR looks washed out. I bought an LG C3 few months ago & HDR looks great on it honestly. Still I feel as if LG's webOS processes HDR better than Win11.

I think you are talking about TV. And yes man, The HDR, HDR 10+ AND DOLBY VISION. They all look so much good. Where as on windows, it's ugly. I tried connecting my tv as monitor and even there, the hdr was good.

 

[6pack]

I think you mean 8 bit + FRC.
Copying this from a Reddit post since that person got the point across very well on this FRC tech

8 bit + frc and 10 bit is the type of panel the screen has. It determines the amount of color which can be displayed on the screen. Hdr need higher amount of color to be able to be displayed. 8 bit + frc simulates more colors on screen by using frame rate control which is a form of temporal dithering which cycles between different color shades with each new frame to simulate an intermediate shade. For the image to be displayed correctly with the right shading and colors you should use a 10bit panel which will display hdr as intended; 8bit+frc will decode the hdr signal but will use frc to simulate the hdr image.

 

[pra300]

I don't own HDR monitor but you can try to look into ICC color profiles.

 

[Ayusin]

Thanks to everyone for heling me out. I was finally able to fix that completely.
Here's How
Turned off AMD freesync from OSD. This reduced that effect by 70%
Turning hdr to "auto" in OSD. This reduced it by 10%
Using the srgb to gamma2.2 profile from github. this fixed it by 10% again.
Last is using the reshade, and enabling one fix there. I forget that...

After this HDR Looks so good. Especially the games.

 

[OMEGA44-XT]

Thanks to everyone for heling me out. I was finally able to fix that completely.
Here's How
Turned off AMD freesync from OSD. This reduced that effect by 70%
Turning hdr to "auto" in OSD. This reduced it by 10%
Using the srgb to gamma2.2 profile from github. this fixed it by 10% again.
Last is using the reshade, and enabling one fix there. I forget that...

After this HDR Looks so good. Especially the games.

What is the reshade you used?

I assume it does something like HDR to SDR conversion like madVR for HDR videos you have stored locally & want to run?

 

[Ayusin]

What is the reshade you used?

I assume it does something like HDR to SDR conversion like madVR for HDR videos you have stored locally & want to run?

It's Reshade HDR shaders by lilium, and from this u have to install the lilium sdrtrc fix. And no, it does not convert sdr to hdr and it's for games, not for videos stored locally. It just fixes the washed out effect by black and white adjustments.