Over-exposure in screenshots and recordings with HDR in Windows 11

So I was still not happy with the settings and the result in my previous post so this is what I ended up doing and its great!!!!#

1. Disable HDR in Windows (MS needs to seriously start spending time and fix their ****!!)
2. Wit the flags I enabled HDR in Edge and Chrome
3. I enable HDR in each game
4. NVIDIA under "Change Resolution" - "Apply the following settings. Output Colour 10bpc, Output Colour Format RGB and Output dynamic range to Full.

So snippet and screen capture works without issues and I get HDR where it matters, don't really need it in Windows and the fact that HDR in Windows has been around for over 2 years and MS can't be asked to actually fix it, I just had enough of their ****!

I make them millions of Pounds by enrolling loads of clients with thousands of users to MS365/Intune/Azure but they can't. So I am working my **** of for them but they can't be asked to fix the software they release for us to use to make them money so they can exists to make software that they can't be asked to fix while we make them **** loads of money and they can't be.... You get my point!

BTW, my colours are great now (I've been tweaking **** for months because sometimes its to bright and other times not bright enough but now its perfect), I can watch HDR content in Edge and Chrome at 4K 60Hz and zero packet loss. I can watch HDR 4K in Netflix app without issues. BTW, I tried t force Dark mode in Edge, don't do it, all YouTube clips then get this weird half screen dark shadow when the navigation bar pops up, just another issue MS will never fix!!!!

SO MY RECOMEDNATIONS IS NOT TO USE HDR IN WINDOWS, THATS WHERE ALL THE ISSUES COME FROM!!!!! Change your apps to HDR not Windows....

So much of the snippets I take is in Edge Browser I found a solution that works for me because I was ready to start hurting people due to the fact that Microsoft do not seem to care about this and they don't seem to care how something so simple can cause so much frustration, stress, anxiety and hate!!!

So this is what I did and it works for me, I still need to tweak brightness and I have GeForce down to 10% and still too bright for me (a 43" ASUS screen and a white page can blind you) so need to work on that.

1. Enabled HDR in Windows 11 (Because that's what we damn want, MS fix your ****!!!)
2. Go into Edge "edge://flags/#force-color-profile" and set it to "HDR10" (I guess the same will work for Chrome)
3. I'm on the new Teams 2.0 (We all should be, being force on all of us by April 2024) and snippet works there without issues.

I can now once again takes snippets from anything I browse and its not looking like **** anymore...

So I don't think snippet is the problem but the actually apps you taking snippets in, it's not passing the right info from the app to the OS (HDR). I tried a few things and all I had to do in the end is to enable HDR in Edge, I've just done the same in Chrome and wallah, it works there now as well. It could still be snippet but I'm not sure it is, unless they can set snippet to capture as is and not do do **** with the capture, don't be clever and just take the f***** snip!!!

yep, 2024 and we still on this. fix this!

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)

Is fixing this SO DAMN HARD?

Feb 2024 - I still have this issue on Windows 11. When HDR is on Snipping tools images are over exposed, text is unclear and difficult to read, capturing anything white in snipping tool results in a gray-ish background.