diff --git a/defaults.xml b/defaults.xml
index b9ed5d57f..296f0902b 100644
--- a/defaults.xml
+++ b/defaults.xml
@@ -390,6 +390,7 @@ Started September 2000 by David Megginson, david@megginson.com
         <bloom-magnitude type="float">1.0</bloom-magnitude>
         <bloom-threshold type="float">6.0</bloom-threshold>
       </hdr>
+      <composite-viewer-enabled type="bool">true</composite-viewer-enabled>
     </rendering>
     <model-hz type="int">120</model-hz>
     <sound>