Dolby Vision: Gaming in HDR - Dolby Professional (2024)

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Is Dolby Vision HDR good for gaming? ›

Dolby Vision allows you to create games with incredible brightness, contrast, and color for a more intense, immersive, and engaging experience. Not only does it give you the increased dynamic range of HDR, it also uses wide color gamut, giving you the ability to push brighter, more saturated colors with less clipping.

Some TVs currently for sale exceed 1,000 nits of brightness, with others even brighter. Dolby Vision allows content creators to use even brighter highlights, whereas some other HDR formats limit content creators to use only up to 1000-nits. Additionally, HDR's contrast ratio is essentially infinite.

In HDR video games, the increased color range and brightness compared to SDR games gives you a more detailed and immersive gaming experience on your Windows PC.

After you have set up your Xbox, there are some great games you can play in Dolby Vision. On Xbox, you can play Halo Infinite, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Borderlands 3, and Microsoft Flight Simulator, to name just a few.

This feature affects your gaming experience in multiple ways: manifold colour performance, deeper saturation, more diverse contrast, brighter highlights and darker shadows. Depending on the implementation of HDR you either get no performance impact or a loss of 1-2 FPS.

Verdict: Is HDR Gaming Worth It? HDR is an incredible technology in theory, but unlike other display technologies, there isn't a single HDR standard. The way each display and developer integrates HDR is different, and thus the HDR gaming experience is not consistent.

Pro-tip: Since most HDR games support the HDR10 format, look for a monitor that supports HDR10. In addition to looking for a monitor that can receive an HDR signal, look for one with the appropriate hardware capabilities.

Immerse yourself in your favorite movies and TV shows by stepping into the world of Dolby Vision, now streaming on major streaming platforms including Apple TV+, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, and Max, as well as Netflix and Paramount+, and VUDU.

4K Dolby Vision: Used for 4K TVs that support Dolby Vision HDR to display video dynamically, on a scene-by-scene basis, and with an even more accurate range of color, contrast, and luminance than standard HDR.

These are the three basic things that every gamer should know about HDR: HDR is a graphics technology that can deliver much better color, contrast, and visual detail in your games (and other media). When properly implemented and displayed, HDR creates a stunning visual upgrade to your gaming experience.

Does HDR add input lag? ›

Input lag with VRR and HDR

For most modern monitors, we don't expect the VRR or HDR to add any significant input lag.

Hopefully you can see all the reasons why using HDR mode all the time is really a bad idea. So our recommendation after all this is to only enable HDR mode and run the screen in HDR mode when you're viewing actual HDR content. Don't leave it active all the time, and just enable it when you need it.

Even compared to generic HDR, Dolby Vision gives you a broader, more realistic palette of color and contrast to create stunning visuals.

To enable Dolby Vision, press the Xbox button  to open the guide, and then go to Settings > General > TV & display options > Video modes > Allow Dolby Vision.

Some current TV models that do not support next-gen gaming features with Dolby Vision may experience latency issues. If you are experiencing these issues, you will need to disable Dolby Vision output on the console.

Dolby Vision is an advanced HDR system that reads the content's dynamic metadata, tweaking the tone mapping and brightness per image. Unlike the uniformity of HDR10, Dolby Vision provides a more fluid approach that makes your movies and games appear clear and dynamic.

Good sound elevates the gaming experience. Gamers know the horror of hearing an enemy charging at them from behind, requiring rapid reflexes to avoid certain death. With Dolby Atmos^®, you can be inside the sound, hearing with extreme precision exactly where threats and other stimuli are coming from.