HDR, or high-speed range, is something that you should really use in consoles and TVs. Just by flicking the switch it just happens every time you use it, forever. It’s a bit complicated to use on PC.
What is the HDR?
HDR is a set of techniques to replicate higher quantities of luminosity than standard photographic techniques. This means your visuals have different colour quality and a lot less saturation, contrasts, darker highlights and darker shadows. On PC, anyone with compatible monitors, should always use the switch to turn HDR on and off. This is because the brightness and the settings used in games are entirely impossible to stay on a monitor while doing work. I need these eyeballs, thank you so much. For instance, if burned to ash in my skull, then they aren’t so good for online shopping or for reading news articles and writing blogs on the site. Before that involved a switch in Windows 10’s settings menu, where if you wanted to use HDR, you had to open that menu, turn a toggle, play the game and go back and flip it back off again. I know it sounds quick and simple that it worked out like that, but any PC gamers familiar with this feature will know it was so easy to forget — and the vast amount of user-generated taylores so that it quickly ceased to become popular — despite its frequent use, sometimes and rarely became public. They’re not going away anymore. While Windows 11’s taskbar and folder changes have all the headlines, it has quietly introduced a number of HDR settings that will help PC gamers with a compatible monitor. The first is a simple keyboard shortcut. Users can start using Win + Alt + B at any time and instantly switch between HDR and standard-based displays, something I know sounds like it should have been in Windows for several years, but somehow only made it in. It is great for toggling the feature more quickly, but also for being able to do it from within a game so you can even check the difference it made. The second is the inclusion of a large number of HDR options in the Xbox Game Bar. From in the Consoles menu, you can give Windows the ability to turn off HDR when you boot and close an all-time run, and once on, you can adjust the intensity of the effect from the slider. Even better, in games that don’t have their own HDR options, Windows 11 is going to get hit with an adjusting level, and does an excellent job. It’s been testing this with some games. I found it working so hard, that the slider’s always the best choice. Though these settings actually debuted earlier in the year for testers, and have been available for everybody since the last month’s release, they have gotten so little fanfare that I figured I’d post about them today. You will never ever need to install anything, just go try it now.
