microsoft has released its Windows HDR Calibration app, which promises to enhance high dynamic range (HDR) displays with greater color accuracy and consistency. Finally, because we had been having problems for years in Windows 11 with the happy HDR.
The app has appeared on the Microsoft Store and offers Windows 11 users who have a display HDR a simple screen adjustment tool to adjust both HDR and SDR (standard dynamic range).
“Calibrate your HDR display for a better experience with HDR content on your Windows 11 PC. The Windows HDR Calibration app helps you improve color accuracy and consistency“, Microsoft on the support page.
And while it’s aimed at Windows gamers (that’s what gamers are), it also benefits other HDR content on monitors with Windows 11: movies, series or audiovisual design tools. The operating system has room for improvement.
Microsoft announced the HDR utility in a blog post in February, explaining that it was doing it because Windows 11 users wanted the Xbox HDR Game Calibration app for Windows PCs, so it could improve the accuracy and consistency of HDR displays on PCs.
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Microsoft provided the application with Windows 11 added functionality by allowing users to customize the color saturation of all content when HDR is enabled.
The app has three test patterns that determine the darkest visible details, the brightest visible details, and how bright a screen can be. It has a slider, so the screen can be adjusted until the pattern is no longer visible.
It also allows users create multiple color profiles and delete any of them using Color Management in Control Panel. If you have an HDR monitor, don’t hesitate to download the application.
Microsoft released the app because often on displays without HDR certification, content can be brighter than a display’s maximum supported brightness or darker than its minimum supported brightness. This causes a “cropped” effect where it looks awful. Windows 11 has margin.