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Just to confirm. It's okay to have two monitors and one be HDR and the other not, correct? (Windows 11) (self.pcmasterrace)

submitted 10 months ago by RanchOnPancakes to c/pcmasterrace

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Trying to figure out why plugging in an HDMI cable to my video cards turns off HDR in Windows 22 and won't let me turn it back on. Or rather does, then after a second turns it right back off on its own.

I could swear I did this in the past.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Windows 22

someone has an advanced copy

[–] EuroNutellaMan 15 points 10 months ago

I wonder of there's an operating system under all the ads

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Yes. I have an oled next to a generic 1080p ips display. When i move a game from the ips to the oled, the auto HDR notification kicks in.

[–] Carighan 8 points 10 months ago

Yep, my current setup is a 1440p iiyama with HDR in the center with two 1080p monitors that can't do it to the sides. I did turn it off because this cheap thing can only do HDR or 165Hz and I vastly prefer the latter, but it is pretty pretty!

[–] uberkalden 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does windows 10 support this? For some reason when I connect two monitors, HDR turns off. As soon as I go down to one it turns back on again

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Yes, you should do what brings you joy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Working for me in Windows 10 using a GTX 1660Ti om an aging Intel i5-3570 so anything from the last 10 years should be fine. My HDR monitor is running over Display Port rather than HDMI I should mention however.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It should be fine, yes. I can do that on my current AMD rig fine.

What graphics card? Monitor specs?

Depending on the age of your hardware (and cables), it may not be supported over HDMI. Real HDR support was only enabled with HDMI 2.0a in 2015. If you have an older GPU such as a Nvidia 900 series, then it does not support enough bandwidth over HDMI for hdr at higher resolutions. And even having too old a cable can ruin HDR support too, as it will not meet the standards necessary for HDMI2.0a+ and may fall back to slower signal rates.

[–] RanchOnPancakes 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

nvidia 3070. Primary display is a Alienware AW3423DWF over displayport, second display is literally a 4k TV over HDMI.

I don't care about HDR on the TV I just want to be able to have it on my gaming monitor but also have the TV plugged in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

hmm. Could be a windows problem. Eliminating the HDMI connection, even if the cable is to an older HDR standard, the DP connection should easily support all forms of HDR since they are more cable agnostic than HDMI is. Windows 11 is a bit of a buggy shit...

Have you tried backing your gaming monitor off of 165hz down to something like 60 and seeing if it allows HDR then? Could be hitting some unexpected cable limit and it's backing off from HDR.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Windows still has some annoying as shit multi monitor bugs when it comes to HDR. It depends on which monitors and which drivers. My personal advice is to just only have your main HDR monitor activated when you want to use HDR. Otherwise it doesn't matter.