HDR not working well

[heart_of_the_tiger]

So this game looks washed out as hell whenever I enable HDR. I turned it off and it looked so much better.
Anyone else have this problem?

I run this game on an RTX 2080, my monitor is a Samsung C32HG70. All of the HDR games I play work perfectly, with the exception of Metro Exodus, which still has a bug with DLSS and HDR.

[V I D A L]

Yes.. It's not everyday a game look better with HDR off.. still, I kept it on and used Reshade to increase the contrast... This way I get a decent HDR image.

[Astrobert]

I'm surprised this isn't being discussed more, I noticed it was wrong as soon as I switched it on, even the menus are washed out....

[Zelos]

Same here, HDR is really washed out and the environment is to bright. I also hate it when there is no HDR switch except when HDR is system wide turned on. Gears 5 has the same dumb implementation but the HDR output was very good. I am using a QLED 75" TV, so maybe its different on a monitor.

[Mogstone]

Alt+TAB, it's more of a windows issue.

[Dionysus 🐭]

Same issue, looks like it is doing the exact opposite of what HDR should do, it is lowering the black levels and raising the white levels to lower contrast and make everything look "washed out".

[Aemony]

The game works and looks fine in HDR on both my Acer Predator X27 as well as my LG OLED C7.

Once on the first launch of the game on my OLED TV the TV enabled HDR mode while the game was kept in SDR. This resulted in a washed out and bright main menu, but the fix was simply to enter the graphics menu of the game and re-enable HDR. After that, the game looked fine again.

[Zelos]

Hmmmm does not work for me. White is grey in my case and everything is to bright. After the last update I can select the 1440p resolution but it forces my TV to run 4K 60hz instead of 1440p 120hz in fullscreen...(windowed fullscreen does give me the 1440p, but that's because my windows resolution is 1440p) When I use the hdrswitch tool from github my TV uses hdr and it seems the game does also, but after switching hdr on, everything is to bright again :(

[oVernOOb]

after playing shadow of the tomb raider in perfect HDR the last days i started Star Wars jedi: Fallen Order today the 1st time
after that my windows 10 HDR setting was switched off (i am still wondering) and nvidia control panel was limited to 82 hz on my Acer Predator x27 monitor
after a reboot all was fine again W10 had HDR on and Monitor was back at 120 for full RGB HDR 1000 (mode 444 so not limited)
also switching on HDR in game was not a problem and the monitor osd also shows not limited so full HDR in RGB444 mode active at 120 Hz Gsync (when going to 144 Hz the DPI can only deliver RGB422 due to bandwith limitation)
anyhow the game is not as shiny as tomb raiders HDR implementation (which imho comes from the grey world as it is in star wars . but i am just at the start of game)
but compared to a youtube walkthru video the HDR on setting does not really much (looks quite the same as the non HDR (SDR) video on youtube
the lights / bulbs / reflections seem not to be any higher/brighter
the gfx looks pretty the same on HDR and SDR video on youtube

[BigBOB]

i'd hate to say it but this game looks washed out with HDR enabled through windows, because the game it self doesn't actually support true HDR(Hardware HDR),

From what i've read on numerous websites when going to the windows display settings and enabling windows HDR its really just enabling software HDR (fake HDR), thats why when at the desktop screen in windows , or in the Fallen Order, it looks washed out, so just about all games needing HDR enabled through windows is just fake HDR

before reading about the fake windows HDR i enabled it through windows all the time and thought all the pc games, looked like crap, but now i don't enable windows HDR at all and the games that do support true HDR, really stand out, one example would be shadow of the tomb raider, it looks really amazing without windows HDR but with it on it just looks horrific

basically if a game detects an HDR display automatically then your good to go most of the time..

and if you have to enable windows HDR for a game e.g the Fallen Order then the game only supports software HDR, making it look washed out

[Dionysus 🐭]

Originally posted by BigBOB:

i'd hate to say it but this game looks washed out with HDR enabled through windows, because the game it self doesn't actually support true HDR(Hardware HDR),

From what i've read on numerous websites when going to the windows display settings and enabling windows HDR its really just enabling software HDR (fake HDR), thats why when at the desktop screen in windows , or in the Fallen Order, it looks washed out, so just about all games needing HDR enabled through windows is just fake HDR

before reading about the fake windows HDR i enabled it through windows all the time and thought all the pc games, looked like crap, but now i don't enable windows HDR at all and the games that do support true HDR, really stand out, one example would be shadow of the tomb raider, it looks really amazing without windows HDR but with it on it just looks horrific

basically if a game detects an HDR display automatically then your good to go most of the time..

and if you have to enable windows HDR for a game e.g the Fallen Order then the game only supports software HDR, making it look washed out

No, Fallen Order supports true HDR. Windows HDR only affects non HDR content, Jedi Fallen Order only needs Windows HDR to be turned on so it can give you the option to enable the game's HDR. It's just that the game's HDR looks bad.

Also even if the game didn't have HDR support, Windows cannot affect exclusive full screen applications. That means as long as your game isn't on borderless mode or windowed mode, Windows cannot affect it at all (even with HDR tonemapping)