Reddoguk:

I have the 32" oddysey G7 VA and i think the only game which i allow HDR is Doom Eternal. Switching it to 10bit instead of 8bit is pointless for me as i think most HDR content actually looks worse in my opinion but i'm still on Win 10 and of course haven't used Win 11's auto HDR feature.

To get Perfect HDR you need 10Bit enabled, HDR without 10Bit is not real HDR, the standard demands 10Bit minimum

EasternUNO:

HDR had always been trash technology. Tried it on dozens screens and in most cases the result image was always worse than SDR. I also do not understand these HDR1000+ displays. I have 43 inch HDR1000 display and mostly I have brigthness level at 0 - 15. It might be good in very bright environments though, but standard SDR display with 350 nits is enough for 99% users

No idea what monitors you used or what hardware, but to get perfect HDR you need windows display settings configured to 10Bit mode I been using HDR since 2016, first I had OLED C6p as my monitor and in 2019 i got OLED C9 as my monitor. HDR looks insane, but my OLED has 10Bit and 12Bit 4:4:4 support I even capture video games in HDR and it play back fine. HDR is the best display technology of this era, the issue is people with left hands and greedy monitor manufacturers that sell trash labeled as HDR. If you use LCD display and not OLED, the minimum for good HDR is 1000Nits, also 10Bit native panel, 8Bit+dithering like on some cheap monitors wont work. So before you buy do some research, if some display allows to turn on HDR doesn't mean its real HDR

theoneofgod:

Sadly they're too large for folk like me. Bring on the 35/40" versions without gimped specs to save me from tennisneckitus.

You get used fast, as I said been on oled from 2016, 55inch, first looks too large then you not notice it and then you see someones 35inch monitor and asks him "what the F is that tiny thing" LG OLED had 48inch and this year they coming with 42inch model, might be perfect for you if you scared to take a chance. Ill be upgrading this year for the new EVO panel and i think ill stay with 55inch, im afraid 48inch will be too small since i got used to such size already

I know you need 10bit for proper HDR but it's still confusing as HDR looks and works amazing in a few games i play like Doom Eternal and Shadow of the Tomb Raider but for other games i can't get it looking good at all. This can't be down to the monitor alone, this must just be the games themselves not liking HDR or the set up. Makes no sense that it's popping with colours in those working games but makes other games look Really washed out and horrible.

Reddoguk:

I know you need 10bit for proper HDR but it's still confusing as HDR looks and works amazing in a few games i play like Doom Eternal and Shadow of the Tomb Raider but for other games i can't get it looking good at all. This can't be down to the monitor alone, this must just be the games themselves not liking HDR or the set up. Makes no sense that it's popping with colours in those working games but makes other games look Really washed out and horrible.

Which are these games? Some games like RDR2 have fake HDR and look worse, thats just the lazy devs MS games all have good HDR support and so is Sony games [I mean the PC editions]

The issue was supposedly "addressed" in the update released a few days ago along with a tonne of other fixes: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/january-25-2022-kb5008353-os-build-22000-469-preview-920e6297-567b-4b95-afe9-35d17de02c3a

I've got a huge game library installed and only about 25 of them support some sort of HDR all pretty new triple A titles. Like i said only 3 or 4 i use HDR with. HDR works on these games like Borderlands 3, Forza Horizon 5, Battlefield 2042, Cyberpunk, F1 2021, No Man's Sky and the list goes on and on. Maybe it's a bug or maybe it's my eyes because the colours just don't look right, instead of crisp whites i see a yellowish tint just like with the blue tint that was in some games before they got removed. Again it may just be personal preference and it does have an effect also on fps too with some of them games. That's an exclusive Windows 11 fix only? "Updates a known issue that might prevent some image editing programs from rendering colors correctly on certain high dynamic range (HDR) displays. This frequently affects white colors that might display in bright yellow or other colors". Because thats exactly what i'm seeing on Win 10