1440p + HDR without enabling 4K in the settings

You have to select "Allow 4K" and "Allow HDR" in order to use HDR, but you do not need to set your resolution to 4K.

Then you can set your screen resolution to 1440p, and all the work is done in the Xbox, without needing the monitor to downsample anything.

Happy Gaming!

This will sound a little odd but, I found this on an older thread about the same thing:

"You need to enable 'Allow 4K' in video modes in settings. It won't put your display into 4K, but it will allow you to tick the HDR10 box underneath after you enable it."

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/will-xbox-series-xs-support-hdr-for-1440p-or-1080p

Whilst your screen is not 4k (far as I can tell it is a Wide 1080p), that is how you enable HDR apparently.

Microsoft locked hdr to 4k so if ur monitor dont accept 4k signals ( tick allow 4k box in settings must be selected for hdr) it doesnt work on 1080p 1440p displays usually only if they accept 4k signals. Because microsoft locked it since xbox one s and
one x. It is hard to understand why they not allow it now because they have xbox series s 1440p 120hz hdr console right?

If you tick 'allow 4K' in the console display settings, this should allow you to enable HDR even on a 1440P monitor.

Be aware though that most monitors, bar the more expensive displays, have really, really poor HDR known as 'HDR 400'. The 400 meaning that max brightness is a mere 400 nits. To put that into contrast, decent enough HDR is 600+ Nits and excellent HDR is 1000+

Hi, I recently purchased a new TCL 4K HDR TV. When I connect my Xbox one x directly to the TV I can only get a maximum resolution of 1440p, even though my TV definitely is capable of 4K. If I enable HDMI 2.0 on the TV to enable 4K I get no image, even
when I set the Xbox settings to 4K. Regardless of what settings I use I can only get 1440p, not 4K, disappointing as this is why I updated my TV.

TCL want to exchange the TV as it may be faulty, I think it may be something more simple? I tried different ports, HDMI cables, hard resets and everything I can find online, still no 4K, ahggggr!

If you have tried different HDMI ports with different cales without result, accept TV exchange!

Is the best option!