This article will show you how to enable an early version of the new Auto Color Management (ACM) feature on Windows 11 build 25309.
The hardware-accelerated system-level color control (Auto Color control) feature is being extended by Microsoft to all SDR monitors (via @PhantomOcean3). (Previously, only certain qualifying and specially provided SDR displays could use it.) When you activate the functionality, all colors in all apps—whether or not they are color-managed—will show up correctly and consistently on all compatible screens.
To utilize the Auto Color Management feature, you must have AMD Ryzen CPUs with Radeon Graphics, AMD RX 400 Series processors, or WDDM driver version 3.0 or higher. Intel discrete DG1 or later, or integrated 12th Gen (Alder Lake) or later. or NVIDIA GTX 10xx (Pascal+) or later.
The newly announced functionality should be enabled by default on version 25309, but if it isn’t, there is an easy fix for it. ViveTool is a third-party program developed by Rafael Rivera and Lucas on GitHub that you can use to activate the new functionality on your computer if you want to get your hands dirty.
This tutorial will show you how to activate this new Windows 11 function.
Enable new Auto Color Management feature on Windows 11
Follow these instructions to activate Windows 11’s new vAuto Color Management (ACM) feature:
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To activate the new Auto Color Management feature, download the ViveTool-vx.x.x.zip file.
To open the zip folder in File Explorer, double-click on it.
To extract all, click the button.
To extract, click the button.
Make a copy of the folder’s path.
LaunchStart.
Look up “Command Prompt,” then right-click on the first result and choose “Run as administrator.”
To access the ViveTool folder, type the following command and hit Enter:
Remember to update the path to the folder with your path in the command.
To activate Windows 11’s new Auto Color Management (ACM), type the following command and hit Enter:
Restart the computer.
After you finish the instructions, a new Automatically manage color for apps option will appear on the Advanced display settings page (onSettings>Display) to activate Windows 11’s Auto Color Management (ACM) feature.
Although Microsoft states that there are no particular display or connection requirements for this capability, it does suggest panels with a gamut larger than sRGB and optionally 10-bit per color channel or higher. Additionally, because the firm is implementing the functionality gradually, it can take some time to show up even if your hardware supports it and you enable the option.
You can undo the modifications using the same steps if you change your mind, but in step 10, be careful to execute the identical commands using the /disableswitch rather than /enable.