But you turn HDR in windows ob before?
Yes, I have it always on.
Holy smokes - you are right! Just tried that and it does seem to work correctly now. It never occurred to me to leave it in that ugly washed-out HDR mode when exiting the program, but when it came back up it looks more like i would expect HDR mode to look.
Just tried that, helped here as well! Thank you for the suggestion, finally I can enjoy Flight Simulator in HDR. 
Looks really awesome.
That worked! Thank you!
Iām having the same issue as you and have the same Dell monitor as well.
Pretty sure itās patch issue, hopefully theyāre aware and working on a fix.
Did you try what was suggested a few posts earlier?
- Make sure HDR is enabled in windows for that monitor (under display settings when you right click the desktop)
- Launch FS2020
- Go to the options and turn on HDR10 and apply (it will be washed out and gray)
- Close out of FS2020
- Relaunch FS2020
- You should now get a better display of HDR (it should still be enabled in game if you go back to the options). It can also be turned off/on/off/on without getting the gray overlay.
I havenāt tried, but I assume that if you turn off HDR10 in game and close the app it will go back to the gray overlay issue. Not sure what happens if you turn off HDR in windows, as I havenāt had any time to play with it lately beyond confirming that this worked.
Hey there, thanks for the heads up. I didnāt see the previous post to resolve this. Was just messing with HDR in game myself actually, quickly looked into this HDR issue on my phone and ended up here. : D
I tried this out and it worked like a charm.
Thanks again!
Happy Flying
Hi guys,I have the same issue, when HDR is active this is the result, the light is too intense and everything is over-exposed, do you know how to solve? Many thanks
scroll up a couple of posts, and youāll find the answer.
@CommonerFool235 Could you mark the post with the solution as the solution (by clicking the grey checkmark icon under the post)? This way itās easier for other forum users to find the correct answer.
Done.
I still havenāt done much with it lately as I have been busy. I am probably a few updates behind.
Unfortunately it didnāt work for me = (
Nope, didnāt work for meā¦ Colors are still washed out, and the stupidest thing is it used to work properly for me last year. And apparently when I open some window on the same screen as FS - colors go normal in the background, but if I click back - they switch back to being washed out.
Also in windowed mode it looks absolutely fine.
If you have an Nvidia card I find that HDR only looks good on my system if I use the Nvidia colour settings as shown below.
(obviously set the resolution and refresh rate appropriate to your monitor, but the section below that try those settings.
I also use the Nvidia Freestyle filters (namely Colour, Brightness/contrast and detail) to fine tune the visuals to my preference.
Unfortunately I already have those settings.
Have you tried the freestyle filters?
Iāve noticed that the tone mapping that prevents very bright colors from blowing out at the monitorās actual peak brightness has stopped applying by default. Iām not sure if this is due to a change in MSFS, Windows, or the NVIDIA driver, but itās interesting! Previously I would get correct tone-mapping (so detail was preserved in bright areas like aircraft bodies, bright parts of the sky, around the sun, etc) only when MSFS was full screen and no other windows were visible. If the start menu was open, or MSFS was windowed, it would blow out bright colors. Now it always blows out bright colors until I do this dance: be in HDR mode. start up MSFS, with HDR on. Go into MSFS settings. Turn off HDR. Go into Windows display settings. Turn off HDR. Turn HDR back on. Go back into MSFS settings. Turn HDR back on. Now it correctly shows with tone-mapping, so bright colors preserve details throughout the entire brightness range of the monitor, and this stays working until I close MSFS. (My monitor is rated as DisplayHDR 400, so peak brightness of just 400 nits, thus itās very easy for bright colors reflecting from the sun or in the sky to be brighter than this.)
Iām having this same problem, all I can figure is that MSFS is not actually outputting an HDR signal. All my other HDR games look fine. Windows 11 will apparently have auto HDR switching, maybe that will help.
I eventually had dialed in HDR in Windows, MSFS, NVIDIA, and my HDR monitor. The colors were phenomenal! But there was a showstopper. Even though the screen image was beautiful, no matter how screens were captured or videos created, they all had blown out highlights. It appears that the screen and video captures were SDR, not HDR. I reconfigured everything for SDR in order to get quality photos and videos.
Thatās exactly what I have experienced. It was only blowing out when another window had focus. After leaving for two weeks and coming back to the game, I found that itās always blown out, so Iām also not sure specifically what changed. Your suggestion does fix it, though. Thank you!