TimmyP:

Auto HDR only matters on OLED\QLED with contrast zones, which most monitors dont have. If you have a nice contrast ratio monitor like a GOOD VA panel (VAs hit about 6000:1), you can essentially mimic the effect of HDR (non contrast zone HDR) with digital vibrancy and slightly messing around with your contrast\brightness. I have 2 TVs one OLED and one non, both support HDR, The OLED is in another world. The non-oled and VA panel? I wanna say the only difference is the TV a slight clarity increase because the tv is reflective and the monitor is matte.

The idea is avoiding to mess around besides that it does work with all HDR monitors. Which user calibrates a monitor and then messes around with the settings every time game X, Y and Z is launched to get a fake a HDR effect and sets it back afterwards?

^Set it back? If you think non-oled HDR exists? You are falling for marketing gimmicks. I would argue that srgb with a high contrast ratio produces almost exactly the same image as fake hdr. Turn digital vibrance up a bit, contrast up 2-3 percent, brightness down 2-3 percent and enable srgb mode on your monitor if you have it. You dont have to set anything "back." Fake HDR exists. It is theoretically fake without contrast zones. The standard is ****ed thats the only reason we are in this position.

TimmyP:

^Set it back? If you think non-oled HDR exists? You are falling for marketing gimmicks. I would argue that srgb with a high contrast ratio produces almost exactly the same image as fake hdr. Turn digital vibrance up a bit, contrast up 2-3 percent, brightness down 2-3 percent and enable srgb mode on your monitor if you have it. You dont have to set anything "back." Fake HDR exists. It is theoretically fake without contrast zones. The standard is ****ed thats the only reason we are in this position.

SDR content looks crap when you adjust a monitor be like HDR, why I said "set it back", since I do not want everything to be as overly bright and colorless as Windows makes it, for that I prefer it adjust to calibration values with a tad more saturation (vibrance) which basically is what you mean. That has nothing todo with HDR, does not even get the look of it, the percentages also differ from display to display, on my end it is contrast down to 48 and brightness down to 43 with a custom SRGB profile. Hence why Auto HDR isn't a bad thing if it is done right, if we look at PC games Destiny 2 and No Mans Sky already has the ability to switch between SDR and HDR, on consoles that has been done for years. Although I think NMS looses way to much color with it on the PC. QLED didn't really help either unless Samsung really improved it with their recent monitors. I think we are on the same page though, since so far I prefer to run PC games in SDR.

waltc3:

Yep--I'm using Win10 AutoHDR right now, Win10 build 21390.2025, and it works fairly well, although I don't much use it because the SDR wide color gamut is so good with my newest monitor. The people with older hardware have another ~3.5 years at least with Win10. For all intents and purposes, W11 = W10. But as Microsoft has decided to up some of the baseline minimum requirements in Windows, they thought "W11" would be much less confusing than wrangling with several Win10 builds, some of which require the new baselines, and some of which do not...;) Yes, that would have been a royal mess! BTW, a Microsoft account is the ticket if you have a retail version of Win10 as it's very simple and quick to reactivate the lifetime (of the user!) licensing via a Microsoft account. In the last 5+ years with Win10 I have changed motherboards ~4 times, I think, and CPUs 3 times, and each time it was very easy to reactivate my retail license for the new hardware. I used to be leery of the Microsoft account, myself, but when I saw how it actually worked I went to it and have stayed with it ever since. Last time I looked you can host 10 devices under the same Microsoft account.

Mate, gotta ask, are the dev builds stable enough for work? I'm working from home with adobe apps and other programs. I'm usually in the slow right(beta) but I'm thinking about moving into the Dev channel for the 11.

DirectStorage is not locked to Windows 11.

Astyanax:

DirectStorage is not locked to Windows 11.

Nope, its coming to Windows 10 too. https://videocardz.com/newz/microsoft-directstorage-also-coming-to-windows-10

Rich_Guy:

Nope, its coming to Windows 10 too. https://videocardz.com/newz/microsoft-directstorage-also-coming-to-windows-10

When is it live? Can't wait to test Optane 905p and WD sn850 with direct storage. Wonder if 4k random read @QD=1 is more important with DS than sequential speeds 🙂 Maybe a good combination of them?

What about the GPU though? Doubt it works on a 1070 for example.

TheDeeGee:

What about the GPU though? Doubt it works on a 1070 for example.

The requirements given by microsoft for DS say it needs a GPU with support for at least shader model 6. So Pascal qualifies. Maxwell 2 also qualifies. If that's true, the question then is if a slower GPU can bottleneck the whole process 😛

The question is if IHV will update their GPU drivers to support it (:

TheDeeGee:

What about the GPU though? Doubt it works on a 1070 for example.

Works on any D3D12 gpu

Astyanax:

Works on any D3D12 gpu

So for example an RX 470 would suffice if paired with an nvme ssd?

KissSh0t:

So for example an RX 470 would suffice if paired with an nvme ssd?

Polaris does support sm6 so it should work.

Undying:

Polaris does support sm6 so it should work.

Awesome~ now I just need to buy an nvme ssd, much easier to do compared to buying a new medium range video card at medium range video card prices haha xD

I still have some questions tho. What size nvme drives are actually recommended for direct storage to work, any size? How doea auto hdr works if one have crappy hdr monitor?