How to turn off HDR

MetroBuffalo291 · August 19, 2020, 2:34am

My HDR10 setting is grayed out, and I am unable to turn it from off to on. My monitor does not display HDR very well, so I would like to be able to turn it off. Anybody else having this issue?

B4dd3R · August 19, 2020, 4:03am

I have the same issue.

MetroBuffalo291 · August 19, 2020, 5:42am

I was able to fix it by enabling HDR in Windows settings while the game was running, this made the on/off selectable, and I was able to switch it to off. I then turned HDR back off in Windows settings and it stayed off in game as well.

EK1288 · August 19, 2020, 6:42am

This doesn’t work for me. My monitor doesn’t support HDR so I don’t have the option to switch it on/off in Windows. Despite the lack of HDR support/option in Windows, HDR is on and greyed out in FS as with OP.

stevewratten · August 20, 2020, 12:54pm

I noticed the same
really anoying as bright sun scenes wash out and lose all their colour as the monior cant handle the colour pellet

this is a really bad bug considering 95% or more of the population do not have a HDR monitor.

stevewratten · August 20, 2020, 12:56pm

@B4dd3R @MetroBuffalo291

you can log an offical bug report here, i have done the same. the more people who do it the quicker it might get looked at

just click the submit request button top right

https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/

NostalgicRuby49 · August 20, 2020, 1:21pm

I have an HDR 600 monitor so it looks great however if you want to turn off HDR go into display settings on windows and turn off HDR.

stevewratten · August 23, 2020, 2:11pm

there is no HDR setting in windows if you dont have a HDR monitor

MojoRisen55 · October 8, 2020, 9:16pm

Same grayed out stuck on issue here with no HDR monitor.

DDMcFly · October 19, 2020, 11:53am

This problem has not been fixed with Update 4. Anyone found another solution?

HopelessDC2 · October 28, 2020, 7:48am

Nope still looking for a way

DDMcFly · November 9, 2020, 3:08pm

Same problem also with update 5, lets see what update 6 brings…

TenPatrol · November 9, 2020, 4:11pm

In notepad or notepad++ open file UserCfg.opt
File location
C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache

Edit line
HDR10 1
change 1 to 0
HDR10 0
obraz
and save changes
Run game

BeardyBrun · November 9, 2020, 6:36pm

I think people are confusing HDR rendering with HDR output.

There won’t be a way to disable the former, all modern engines using a PBR workflow render HDR internally. The HDR option only affects the output when using an HDR monitor. It won’t have any effect on a regular monitor, hence it being disabled.

DDMcFly · November 16, 2020, 9:30am

That one worked. Its off now. However the graphic still looks not very nice.