One of my current monitors (two 24" Dell 4K monitors, non-HDR) has developed a column of bad pixels, so I’m planning to replace it and shuffle things so a new monitor sits in the ideal position for use on Flight Simulator. :slight_smile: I’m looking for advice on using HDR from people who are happy…

What formats are you using to capture HDR screenshots and video? Edit: Sorry, just re-read and seen you don’t currently have an HDR monitor. Don’t have any experience of them myself, but can think of a fair few obstacles you’ll have to overcome to publish HDR content online. All your capturing and …

Yeah that’s why I’m asking. :wink:

I’m using MSFS with my Sony 55" 4K HDR TV. HDR looks good. But you’ll have to enable Windows HDR with MSFS HDR and the proper cable to drive them. I’m using HDMI 2.1 cable from my GPU to my TV. As for screenshots. I don’t think there’s any image format that can capture HDR information. So any scree…

Someone can correct me if I’m wrong but I think there’s only 4 file formats that can store HDR images: .HDR .EXR .TIFF and .PSD Files like JPEG and PNG are not designed to store HDR images so they won’t work. I’m not sure if GeForce Experience can take HDR screenshot in .TIFF format. But the last …

For monitors HDR isn’t very good unless you’re willing to spend over $1000. HDR on an LCD really only works well if you have lots of dimming zones and most “HDR capable” monitors don’t even have any zones. Some semi decent ones have like 16 zones. The good ones have almost 400 or more dimming zon…

Thanks; good to know that at least the Game Bar has some support. But if I have to manually pipe all my uploads through a program to custom tone-map them, that’s a non-starter for me. Way too much trouble. Thanks for the info!

But why do you need to tone map the JXR again? Since it’s already taking PNG as well. I would have expected the PNG format was automatically toned down to SDR. And just upload the PNG. The JXR can be kept on your own or for people who has a compatible HDR display.

The PNG does look like it was tone mapped but from the couple of sample screenshots I just took you lose a lot of detail since you have no control over the tonemapping. Sure it looks better than the washed out/just plain messed up screen shots you’d get from Steam or just using PrintScreen, but it’…

I use Geforce with HDR on to take screenshots, It’s saved in EXR format about 90 mb in size, then i convert it to BMP/PNG with photoshop. Here’s an example i uploaded below. Neo4316: Someone can correct me if I’m wrong but I think there’s only 4 file formats that can store HDR images: .HDR .EX…

Advice on HDR monitors, screenshots, and video capture?

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Vibstronium April 7, 2021, 1:18am 5

Oof. . sounds like I should skip HDR then if you can’t do screenshots well. Thanks!

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