This browser is no longer supported.
Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support.
![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(128, 8%, 22%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3EA%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
Hello, I am inquiring about an issue I can't seem to solve (without turning HDR off all-together, which defeats the purpose of having it even be an option in Windows 11)
In recordings (primarily using OBS) and in screenshots (with snip and sketch) everything appears extremely over-exposed / bright with HDR enabled. This is a big problem for me as I actually, well, want to use the OS normally. I record lots of clips and take many screenshots and I've finally gotten fed up of it and am now looking for a solution. Any help appreciated, thanks
(snip and sketch has since stopped doing it, however it likes to do it randomly now. commonly happens in fullscreen programs and also my web browser for some reason)
Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.
There are over 20 pages on this?! Without a single fix?!
I should be able to use my snippet tool and take a decent screenshot. Even if the content isn't HDR. It shouldn't be over exposed.
Give me a setting to take hdr snippets then?
Why has this taken a few years to have no resolution?
I updated my NVIDIA driver and was f@cking around with some of the newer settings and not really sure what I'm doing and could not be asked to research them, a Watercooled 4090 so just go with MAX settings. Since then my colours just didn't look right to me so not sure what to do to fix that and thought let me give this HDR f@ckup another go... I've done the following and I'm actually happy for the moment, never thought I will be because MS could not give a flying f@ck in fixing this and make their customers happy! It's insane...
My Display info:
I changed the below in Edge because I only used that for day to day and YouTube, etc and this works for me... Put this in the URL bar: edge://flags
So I had this setting on HDR and I thought all was good but once again, just being disappointed.
* Some New Tabs will for some stupid reason be much darker
* YouTube scrolling adds 3+ inch shaded flip up bar at the bottom of the clips and when you stuck in a YouTube rabbit hole, this becomes irritating.
!!!!UPDATE!!!!
* I've changed this back to sRGB
Then in Snipping tool I changed this under the settings: "HDR screenshot colour corrector"
I've also tested sharing screen and apps in Teams and I have no issues, everything seems to be ok now for me and HDR used in the Desktop is not as painfully bright as it was when I gave up with this **** months ago. I hope this last...
This works but looks absolutely horrible
How is this not selected by default or warned when you enable HDR in windows is beyond my compreehension.
Been having this problem since 2022.. now it's finally fixed.
Thank you so much
Yup, I have a reply way-back I believe mentioning that I used the HDR calibration tool and it doesn't help. It's definitely still broken even with the settings in the latest snipping tool as I mentioned above. It's possible to force HDR calibration to play "nicer" with the snipping tool, but then you lose any benefits of having HDR enabled from what I can tell.
