Well before Xbox Series X fans could even grasp the price or the capabilities of the next-generation machine more than a year ago, Microsoft’s first bomb drop last February featured the advancements in its backwards compatibility technology. One namely feature is the tool to automatically apply an HDR fix to games that shipped without it. And while a billboard feature on Xbox, fragments of it also appears from Sony’s work on PlayStation 5 too.
But for the most part, Microsoft’s approach to revitalize pre-available releases continues as the firm looks to also pursue this venture outside of consoles. In that, the company presses the opportunity to also provide the tool to games on PC as well. According to a new Developer Update, Microsoft plans to offer the feature in a new update today for Windows Insiders.
While some game studios develop for HDR gaming PCs by mastering their game natively for HDR, Auto HDR for PC will take DirectX 11 or DirectX 12 SDR-only games and intelligently expand the color/brightness range up to HDR.
While some game studios develop for HDR gaming PCs by mastering their game natively for HDR, Auto HDR for PC will take DirectX 11 or DirectX 12 SDR-only games and intelligently expand the color/brightness range up to HDR.
It’s a seamless platform feature that will give you an amazing new gaming experience that takes full advantage of your HDR monitor’s capabilities. The Auto in the title implies how easy it is for you to enable the feature; a simple settings toggle flip will let you turn the feature on and off.
Hannah Fisher, Microsoft Program Manager
It’s a seamless platform feature that will give you an amazing new gaming experience that takes full advantage of your HDR monitor’s capabilities. The Auto in the title implies how easy it is for you to enable the feature; a simple settings toggle flip will let you turn the feature on and off.
Although current news breaking for PC to welcome HDR functionality from Microsoft, a similar initiative is coming to Xbox Series X later this year. In that, Dolby Vision is another graphic-improving approach that furthers the experience of HDR and expands that in volumes. The project will follow the launch of Dolby Atmos support which launched with the console back in November.
Additionally, this is not the only feature coming to PC from Microsoft. Atop of the new HDR client, the Xbox company is planning to welcome xCloud to keyboard & mouse users later this spring. The addition will also accompany the long-awaited iOS support as well. You can read the full report by heading here.
Do you see yourself using the HDR tool on PC?
Source: Microsoft
