I have been playing this on my Samsung G9 49" monitor for a while now and have been very underwhelmed by the HDR. I know it was mainly to due to 9 dimming zones and very lack luster contrast ratio. Pc monitors are generally not meant for true HDR gaming. Even though G9 has hdr1000 certification but it only gets bright and that’s it. Picture quality on this things sucks in HDR mode.
So today I decided to move my pc to the living room where I have my trusty 2017 samsung Q7C QLED. This TV is not by any means any top tier Qled TV. You can Google the specs. But it still has vastly better contrast ratio, color gamut and comparatively more dimming zones. Fired up MSFS and was absolutely blown away by the picture quality. It looked like a completely different game. The clouds looked bright white and had different tones which I never knew existed. Sky box was completely transformed and looked more natural. Everything just looked more grounded. I can’t explain it in words but you have to try it yourself to truly appreciate it.
Please do yourself a favor and try MSFS on a good HDR TV. I can only imagine what it looks like on a 2021 LG OLED.
55" CX is the same price as the 48" at Curry’s/PC World in the UK right now.
I got the 55" (obvs) as I’m moving my gaming kit away from my work desk (where I use a Dell ultrawide) and it works really well at 4K even on a 2080ti GPU. Didn’t have to mess with too much stuff, HDR and VRR worked out of the box so it is smooth, detailed and looks terrific. Lost some FPS, if you care about that sort of thing, but the TV makes it appear even smoother than on the monitor even though it is getting around 8 frames less.
Been flying on my 55" Sony Bravia X90F 4K HDR TV… Amazing stuff…
I don’t like OLED myself, not because of the picture quality, but because it’s prone to screen-burn in. If you only watch movies with it, OLEDs are amazing. But when you game a lot on an OLED. it’s a bad idea.
Because you tend to view a lot of static images on screen like a HUD on games, or even the Windows Taskbar that’s constantly being displayed in the same position for longer periods. on OLED, this is prone to burn into the panel which creates ghosting effect when you’re trying to see another content.
That’s why I just get a regular 4K LED HDR TV.
Yes, you need to enable all three of them. You might also need to enable the HDMI Enhanced format, with a compatible HDMI cable too. I’m using HDMI 2.1 certified cable. And it can drive all the colours into my TV really well.
I would love to play in HDR but as long as screenshots are still a disaster with HDR it doesn’t really suit my purpose. Another reason to perhaps get the Series X version as well for hassle free HDR when I’m not exploring.
So this is shall we say a “niche solution” but I’ve been working in the background on a utility program to convert the HDR screenshots saved by the NVIDIA overlay to regular JPEGs, tone-mapping the HDR into SDR in a similar way to how MSFS itself would do it if you were not in HDR mode (but with slightly better color adjustments IMO). I use it to batch-process all my MSFS screenshots for posting:
Beware I have not yet created a binary release and also there’s no graphical UI yet. But if there’s interest I may try to add that. Currently you must install the Rust compiler and Visual C++ and compile it yourself.
That’s easily rectified. Go to Pause menu → General Options → Graphics → turn off HDR → Resume Flight → Take screenshot → Go to Pause menu → General Options → Graphics → Turn on HDR again → Resume flight.
All the more reason for me to just livestream to YouTube directly in HDR mode. I get a recording of my entire flight than just a screenshot of a single event.
I press prt scrn, paste it into psp, crop it, name it and continue. I have over 12K of them already on my world exploration tour, lossless compression (png). A recording would be over 2,400 hours by now
The sim looked stunning on my LG OLED. The reason why I changed to a 4K LCD was the OLED screen would auto dim. Not too noticeable during day flights, but at night it was terrible. The screen dimmed so much I could not see any surrounding scenery. When the runway lights approached, the screen would go back to normal brightness. I tried to mess with settings but ultimately I would have to re-code the tv and remove the safety settings. Problem with that, you get screen burn in. I’m happy with my LCD until LG can figure out keeping the brightness level the same on the OLED without burn in.
I have played this sim on a 4k 49inch HDR TV and it look great but too much for my eyes and the performance hit was not worth it. Went back to monitors easier on my eyes and overall better image quality. Rocking a VA 3440X1440 ultrawide monitor and won’t go back to anything else.
Still use the TV but for sports and movies
Regardless of my fps which I average 45 with most things on ultra. But it doesn’t mater what your flat panel fps are. Or that it has 8k resolution. It’s still flat and not nearly as impressive as a G2 on ultra settings. Yes your setup will give you pretty looking screen shots, but a good vr setup will give you everything but gravity.
They must have lower end setups. When I had the 2080 and 32 gb ram I didn’t like it and then I upgraded to 3090 and 128 gb of ram. Made a lot of difference.
I am no expert, but I have one the top of the top monitors (asus ROG Swift PG27U) which is full HDR (1000 nits) etc and it looks good on my monitor.
However, everything I read says to use RGB which provides you with Full 8-bit (vs going to 10 or 12-bit and having to do limited vs full). Is this not right?
But if there’s interest I may try to add that. Currently you must install the Rust compiler and Visual C++ and compile it yourself. 
