Dynamic Lighting: Central RGB control for Windows 11

During the Build conference, Microsoft introduced a central RGB control for Windows 11. This is called Dynamic Lighting and allows controlling all RGB components of the computer. External programs are to become redundant with it.

Control center for RGB elements

Many computers today are equipped with numerous RGB elements. However, anyone who wants to control these does not have it easy, as each company has its own control environment. In the worst case, this means that numerous different programs must be used to control a few lights – some of which require registrations with the manufacturers. It gets even more complicated if the individual RGB elements are to be synchronized across manufacturers. This is almost impossible today.

Microsoft would like to solve these problems with a control center for all RGB elements of the computer. This is to bear the name Dynamic Lighting and be integrated into Windows 11 in the next few weeks. The enterprise promises thereby some: The RGB control is to become low-threshold and without larger expenditure possible. All RGB elements are to become controllable at a central place and without separate registration. The fact that such a solution is planned was already known at the beginning of the year.

Who will be involved is unclear

However, the new feature has one major weakness: it is not clear which companies will work with the central interface. Without the support of RGB manufacturers, however, Microsoft’s idea is impossible to implement. Thus, Dynamic Lighting will be completely useless if no RGB company agrees to abandon its own control programs in favor of the central interface.

So anyone who has had to work with several RGB programs up to now and is hoping for a remedy should not be too happy. Presumably, it will take at least a while until Dynamic Lighting will prevail and the RGB control will be moved to the system settings of Windows 11. It is also unclear whether Dynamic Lighting will also be able to control RGB headers on motherboards or only simple RGB elements. Microsoft has not yet commented on this.