I have been a little confused about this going back to Flight Sim 2020. So, I have Dolby Vision enabled on my Xbox and when I start up Flight Sim 2024, I get the Dolby Vision symbol in the corner, meaning it is active, but I also have HDR turned on in settings in Flight Sim 2024. Is this the way it should be, or should I turn one of them off? Just seems a little strange to have two types of HDR on at once.
Any clarification on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
PS: Just for clarification I am playing on a Xbox Series X.
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Hey, i have the exact same… Dolby Vision on the Xbox but HDR activated in MSFS settings. I think the colors look very realistic this way. If i put my TV on HDR, the colors are too bright and unrealistic. I’d advise to leave it as it is
I was just wondering if it is better to go with just Dolby Vision? HDR does make the screen much brighter. Toggle it on and off in the menu and look at how the menu becomes darker, I would say a good dark, but I do not know what the actual game looks like with HDR off. I guess time to do a little testing!
Dolby Vision is just one type of HDR. There are also others like HDR10, HDR10+ and more. Dolby Vision is one standard created by Dolby that defines stuff like color depth, maximum brightness and so on. It’s probably the most relevant advanced HDR spec for movies and gaming and simpler standards like HDR10 can’t display as ‘good’ of an image.
I personally don’t own a Xbox but it should be like this:
Turning on HDR in MSFS tells the game to render the image in HDR. To make use of that you have to enable HDR10 on the Xbox AND the TV! The TV probably recognizes it automatically. If not it’s going to look weird because it can’t display the image correctly.
If you now enable Dolby Vision on the Xbox (and your TV has to support it too, many don’t, for example every Samsung TV) you get a slightly better image. In theory. In reality for HDR the results vary a lot depending on what TV you have.
To put it short: Try different combinations and pick what you like the most
The sim doesn’t have Dolby Vision (pretty sure that is a movie only product), and only has HDR10. Having Vision turned on for the Xbox and TV shouldn’t matter because the sim should not be triggering it, and only getting the HDR10 signal.
On the other hand, I’ve found HDR10 in 2024 to be too out of balance on my PC monitor, unlike 2020. The colors are too vibrant and the whites are overexposed. I’m actually running the sim in SDR for better colors.
Several games support Dolby Vision. You can look it up on the Dolby website. MSFS 2020 is one of them. However 2024 doesn’t mention DV anywhere now that I looked it up. That probably means it isn’t supported.
And what you write about too vibrant and washed out whites is exactly what I described. Everyone has a different experience. On my OLED TV with Windows 11 it looks amazing. That’s why everyone should just try it out and decide for themselves
