The new app is available for download now

Sep 23, 2022 15:42 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft has announced a new Windows 11 HDR Calibration app that can be downloaded for free by all users running the latest version of the operating system.

Published on the Microsoft Store, the HDR Calibration app does what pretty much any other display calibration app does, so it can run three test patterns to eventually help improve the color accuracy and consistency.

Microsoft says the app also makes it possible for users to adjust the color saturation of all content when the HDR setting is enabled.

“In some cases (particularly with displays without HDR certification), the displayed content is sometimes either brighter than the maximum supported brightness of the display, or darker than the minimum supported brightness,” the software giant notes.

“This causes a “clipping” effect which reduces detail in both highlights and shadows of a scene. Calibrating your display can improve your experience with HDR on Windows by addressing these issues! Additionally, if you want your content to be more vivid when HDR is turned on, you can use the app’s Color Saturation menu to customize how colors will appear on your screen.”

It goes without saying that your display must support HDR, and to determine if this is the case or not, just head over to the Settings app under System > Display > User HDR. “Not all GPUs support this functionality. Please check out the app’s requirements here. If your GPU does seem to support this functionality, please know that this change will depend on your display characteristics and on some displays it may be very subtle and hard to notice,” Microsoft notes.

The application is already available for download for Windows 10 and 11 users, and as per Neowin, you don’t have to run the latest version of the operating system to be able to install it.