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Published on October 1, 2022 By PapaShex In WindowBlinds

Windowblinds config screen background goes black when HDR is turned on. Options can be moused over and highlight, but the text descriptions are unreadable (black on black). Win 11 and WB beta 007 or v9/28/2022.


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on Oct 01, 2022

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. I believe this is known issue. Please refer to Dev respond here: https://forums.stardock.com/514639/get;3864743

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

on Oct 07, 2022

I gotta disagree with the Stardock "party line" concerning requirement / usefulness of HDR in Win 11. Win 11 supports it, WB11 does not, therefore WB 11 is not Win 11 compatible. I understand HDR compatibility was nerfed to fix another issue, so now it's really not compatible on 2 points. I'll continue to follow development, but don't tell us "you don't need that feature of your OS to buy our software".

on Oct 07, 2022

Hello,

I believe the issue should be resolve on later version.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

on Oct 08, 2022

Ahh...was wondering what the glitch was. HDR off for now.

on Oct 08, 2022

PapaShex

I gotta disagree with the Stardock "party line" concerning requirement / usefulness of HDR in Win 11. Win 11 supports it, WB11 does not, therefore WB 11 is not Win 11 compatible. I understand HDR compatibility was nerfed to fix another issue, so now it's really not compatible on 2 points. I'll continue to follow development, but don't tell us "you don't need that feature of your OS to buy our software".

Unless you have an OLED display or very high end monitor/TV HDR mode really is pretty much useless.  The majority of 'hdr capable' monitors sold are nothing of the sort, sure they accept the input but it is not a HDR experience.  I have one on my desk which gives everything a blue tint for example when enabled.  HDR is often a marketing point in the same way as pretty much anything over 3000:1 contrast ratios (Excluding OLED / local grid array backlights)

Enabling it will negatively impact performance as additional work is done converting everything from SDR to HDR.  This additional work is the reason the black issue is showing up as in HDR mode things are not entirely compatible with SDR mode.

We are working on a workaround for when HDR is enabled, but we are liable to warn the user that they should consider disabling that feature unless they really need it enabled as it will come at a performance cost.

All of this is because we had to work around a bug in the Windows 11 Desktop Window Manager.

on Mar 10, 2023

I just set my hdr on and apply accent colour to backgrounds then ald folders and text are fine, now i just can't get edge or chrome to changehdr on

on Mar 10, 2023

CEFQuark

I just set my hdr on and apply accent colour to backgrounds then ald folders and text are fine, now i just can't get edge or chrome to change

Reply 1 here seems to work pretty well (don't forget to check the box in WBConfig):

https://forums.wincustomize.com/511193/page/1/#3844577

 

on Jul 11, 2023

it's checked and now Omen works with edge shortcut but the taskbar is not changing