Washed out looking

[Hydrolix]

I see all these beautiful screen shots, but my game has this washed out look to it. Like someone put a cheese cloth over my screen and I'm having to look through it.

The odd thing is, if I alt+tab out of the game to come see this screen, everything clears up and looks right. Help?

I have a 3080 and alienware's 34" OLED. I've never seen anything like it before in a game.

[Hydrolix]

I figured it out. HDR appears to be broken in game. I turned it off and everything is fine. I had to turn it off via windows, though. An in game toggle would be nice. Also, fix this Larian

[Button-Down Mind]

I had the same monitor and found a fix - I had to download the latest monitor firmware from DELL and install it by connecting the monitor to my PC via a USB-B to USB-A cable. Now HDR works fine.

[Ilmithir]

Have the same issue, with HDR on it's impossible to get the colors right everything is looking washed out. Will try to disable my HDR setting in windows.

I have a AMD 7900XT graphicscard, this is the first game for me thats having these issues.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Hydrolix:

I figured it out. HDR appears to be broken in game. I turned it off and everything is fine. I had to turn it off via windows, though. An in game toggle would be nice. Also, fix this Larian

I do not know if this is true or not, but someone in another thread posted that HDR doesn't work correctly if you play in Vulkan mode, but does work in DX11 mode. So if you chose Vulkan at the launcher, you may want to try DX11 and see if that fixes it for you.

[Dracmore]

Update monitor firmware. Was having same problem with washed out colors.


Same monitor as OP

[Hydrolix]

Thanks for the replies. I will give monitor firmware update a shot.

[TREXINATUX]

Research how to set up HDR. You need to move a slider in advanced settings to fix the washed out effect

[Hydrolix]

Firmware update worked. All good now even with HDR enabled. Thanks all!

[Nogs]

Screen shots and videos look washed out, but in game looks good for me. 3080ti, asus vg27a with asus gaming hdr and overclock on

[Nithael]

Hi, I have the same issue with this monitor ASUS TUF Gaming VG258QM, when i tried to updated my driver it says I already have the last update, any idea how i could make this works pls?

[pirate135246]

i recommend setting contrast to 1.20 when using hdr with alienware 34" oled, it lowers the black level floor to be closer to true black with a small tradeoff of some crushed blacks

[pirate135246]

Originally posted by Nithael:

Hi, I have the same issue with this monitor ASUS TUF Gaming VG258QM, when i tried to updated my driver it says I already have the last update, any idea how i could make this works pls?

that monitor isn't bright enough and doesn't have local dimming required for proper hdr, its just a marketing gimmick on that panel

[Ancalagon]

AW3423DW

I use lilium reshade shaders to correct the black levels and tone mapping. The game sliders tend to clip the highlights.

[Will]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by Hydrolix:

I figured it out. HDR appears to be broken in game. I turned it off and everything is fine. I had to turn it off via windows, though. An in game toggle would be nice. Also, fix this Larian

I do not know if this is true or not, but someone in another thread posted that HDR doesn't work correctly if you play in Vulkan mode, but does work in DX11 mode. So if you chose Vulkan at the launcher, you may want to try DX11 and see if that fixes it for you.

Uh yeah that seemed to be the issue for me. EVERYTHING was really dull and I had to max out brightness to see anything. Switched to dx11 and it is waaaaay better. Thank you! Not sure if that's specifically a card or monitor thing? Using vulkan is definitely crap on my 4070ti and LG something hdr monitor.

[Krelp]

HDR has been broken the same exact way for me since launch, worked fine in Beta EA