Lol, your solution is a bandaid. The whole point of this forum is to get Microsoft to issue a fix.
Over-exposure in screenshots and recordings with HDR in Windows 11
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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)
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Anonymous
2023-08-19T22:52:17+00:00 -
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2023-08-19T22:43:27+00:00 The problem is you guys don’t really know what you’re talking about. There was a post on the first page that would have solved the problem and was dismissed as not relating to the issue when it IS the whole issue.
I laid out a solution above that works perfectly fine. Turn down the SDR adjustment slider to 0 in the HDR section after turning HDR on.
That’s what causing your snips to be over exposed.
Then find the gamma settings for your video card and increase them until you’re happy with your desktop brightness. (Because it will be fairly dark after turning on HDR and turning the SDR slider to 0.)
It’s worked for me and another user above commented it worked for him as well.
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Anonymous
2023-08-19T20:01:53+00:00 This issue is still a problem a year and a half later. We are not talking about a third party app. We are talking about the built in Microsoft snipping tool that becomes unusable if HDR is on.
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Anonymous
2023-08-15T14:20:41+00:00 I'm here just to say i have the same issue.
Also appears to be affected DISCORD streams aswell with the report being high brightness as described else where in these posts.
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Anonymous
2023-08-14T02:17:05+00:00 This solution worked great! It's a shame we're having to hack together solutions to simple problems, but at least we've found a fix. Kudos and thank you very much for this. 1.0 gamma -> 1.5 looks great to me also; I wonder if somehow "gamma" in the Nvidia Control Panel and the SDR adjustment setting in the Windows HDR settings are addressing the same desktop gamma but the SDR settings also adjust the SDR content gamma, because in Windows HDR settings I lower the SDR modifier from 50 to 0, then in Nvidia I up the desktop gamma from 1.0 to 1.5 and then it looks exactly the same as before adjusting the SDR modifier. It seems that when adjusting the Desktop gamma up to 1.5 the HDR/SDR screenshot settings do not adjust with it, but instead remain lower as adjusted in the Windows HDR settings.
If any of that makes sense...