PSA: If your HDR is horribly washed and game is now dropping frames and stuttering like crazy, try this:

[Rancid]

I'm no tech savy to explain why this works, but i'm reposting this from other players that shared the fix. This happened to me too with ER going into the DLC and i tried this tool to force hard restart your monitor, and it surprisingly fixed everything for me:

Use the windows shortcut Win+Ctrl+Shift+B (thanks to @Silver Knight from the comments) or download cru-1.5.2.zip from here[www.monitortests.com] and extract it in some folder. Close the game, run restart64.exe and try again.

Don't expect this to fix every issue, and it's too soon, but it just worked for me. Worth a try. Hope it helps.

In my case, thanks to @w.c. higgenbobber who shared the info.

[Silver Knight]

this works (well, CAN work, HDR is still bit of a crapshoot in ER) because it restarts the graphics driver and elden ring uses the buggy and outdated nvidia hdr api

you dont need CRU for this, the windows shortcut Win+Ctrl+Shift+B does the same

[Jerricky Jebates]

bros dont download no .exe from anyone my hdr works fine

[Corn Cake]

For anyone who doesn't want to download the thing, the other way to fix it is restart your PC. Would be nice if they could just fix it for us, you know...for real.

[Silver Knight]

Originally posted by TrippyTaka:

bros dont download no .exe from anyone my hdr works fine

"IF"
And cru.exe is legit

[Rancid]

Originally posted by TrippyTaka:

bros dont download no .exe from anyone my hdr works fine

Are you freaking retarded? HDR does work, but alt+tabbing and other stuff can break it until restarting the graphics driver. Also, you aren't downloading anything from me, its a link. Also, there are multiple posts around from this working. Even the user that commented before you explained how to do it and an alternative to do it without the .exe.

If you are braindead, please dont spread rot around, keep it to yourself.

[Silver Knight]

Originally posted by Rancid:

keep it to yourself.

bruh chill

[Rancid]

Right, but its really infuriating when someone like this dude appears like that, not only not contributing but trying to hijack the post with such an attitude"lul im ok so there is no problem brus". My only intention was to help people in my situation. How many times useful posts get derailed because of that one guy.

[Jerricky Jebates]

Originally posted by Rancid:

Originally posted by TrippyTaka:

bros dont download no .exe from anyone my hdr works fine

Are you freaking retarded? HDR does work, but alt+tabbing and other stuff can break it until restarting the graphics driver. Also, you aren't downloading anything from me, its a link. Also, there are multiple posts around from this working. Even the user that commented before you explained how to do it and an alternative to do it without the .exe.

If you are braindead, please dont spread rot around, keep it to yourself.

yes i am? now are you happy making fun of an official ♥♥♥♥♥♥? you should feel proud of yourself!

[Jerricky Jebates]

also i may be returded but i know better than to download some .exe from some random person on steam, and everyone should have this kind of awareness to do their research first before just clicking your file link dude. EXE are the easiest way to get a virus, some aren't detected by antivirus and some are harmless false positives. I only meant to do your research before trusting some random on the dang steam forums... not everyone should just trust you jackass. You know how easy it is to rename that file to CRU.. its cake. Also have you ever heard of RTX HDR? It's pretty great if you have an nvidia card, might wanna give it a try.

[Rancid]

Thing is it is not a random exe. It's a known tool, from a respectable site, so at this point you are just trying to hijack this. The name of the tool is in the post even before you have to click the link... which goes to the official forum thread where the tool is being developed to download it, not directly to the link.. you are getting no link from me. So you are the one who should do your research before going full paranoid mode.... I even added and exe-less way proposed by Silver Knight so this doesn't even make sense at this point.

Now please, leave this post for what it is, trying to help people with this issue.

[w.c. higgenbobber]

Reposting this

If anyone else is having an issue where your HDR for this game (or Armored Core/Sekiro) has really faded colours and you don't want to restart PC/update your drivers every time to fix it-- try just rebooting your monitor. The easiest way for me to do it is running restart64.exe from Custom Resolution Utility (CRU).

This has been working for me every time I've tried since realizing I've also done this to fix gsync/freesync when it's being stubborn.

Link here: https://www.monitortests.com/forum/Thread-Custom-Resolution-Utility-CRU

[w.c. higgenbobber]

oh whoops this post was unnecessary. sorry for redundant info but CRU works well

[Rancid]

Originally posted by w.c. higgenbobber:

oh whoops this post was unnecessary. sorry for redundant info but CRU works well

U were even quoted :D
By the way, if you read the post, there isn't even a need for this. Just use Win+Ctrl+Shift+B as the other user said.

[hade1]

Anyone tried "Win + Alt + B" with gamebar enabled? thats what used to work to toggle HDR on+off and resolve HDR related issues in the past.

[MelvinSmiley]

CRU is a legit tool and needed to make DLDSR work for example because NVIDIA uses this idiotic 4096 resolution as a base for DLDSR resolutions which all have black bars and wrong aspect ratio. CRU can delete it. So it's not some random malware.exe lol.