HDR Greyed Out

[PlatinumSun]

Intel ARC A770, I have it turned on in windows and I have a HDR supporting monitor.

EDIT: Possibly its an issue of HDR enable not being a DX call but a direct call to GPU API that AMD or Nvidia uses but not for Intel.

[VBro96]

If you have windows 11, don't use the in game HDR setting WHILE using the global HDR setting from the windows settings. Its best to use the global HDR setting and turn OFF HDR in every game.

[Dizzy Ladybug]

try restarting your pc, it helps fix the washed out HDR in Elden Ring and AC6

make sure Windows HDR is on

make sure the game is in exclusive full screen mode and turn HDR on in game

[PlatinumSun]

Originally posted by VBro96:

If you have windows 11, don't use the in game HDR setting WHILE using the global HDR setting from the windows settings. Its best to use the global HDR setting and turn OFF HDR in every game.

10 unfortunately. Going to move to Linux. I mean 11 is ok and there is good 3rd party support to tweak it to my liking (its arguably slightly easier to make 11 look exactly like 7 or Vista than using 10) but Linux is also pretty good now.

But yah I know 11 has a good built in HDR.

Will using W10 Global HDR look bad though compared to ingame HDR? Should I just use Special K?

[PlatinumSun]

Originally posted by Dizzy Ladybug:

try restarting your pc, it helps fix the washed out HDR in Elden Ring and AC6

make sure Windows HDR is on

make sure the game is in exclusive full screen mode and turn HDR on in game

No luck.

I did a restart, game is in full screen.

But still greyed out.

[Dizzy Ladybug]

oh the button for HDR is greyed out? For someone else, deleting GraphicsConfig in the game’s save folder allowed them to turn HDR on again. I would try that.

that’s the last piece of advice I can give, sadly.

[PlatinumSun]

Originally posted by Dizzy Ladybug:

oh the button for HDR is greyed out? For someone else, deleting GraphicsConfig in the game’s save folder allowed them to turn HDR on again. I would try that.

that’s the last piece of advice I can give, sadly.

oh well ill try and manually enable it in gconfig then.

[PlatinumSun]

Originally posted by Dizzy Ladybug:

oh the button for HDR is greyed out? For someone else, deleting GraphicsConfig in the game’s save folder allowed them to turn HDR on again. I would try that.

that’s the last piece of advice I can give, sadly.

No luck after deleting it and I can't say I know what the hdr thing looks like. Mind pasting your own or a buddies .xml file here so I can see copy the HDR setting i my own?

[Mikamus]

Have you enabled 10 bit via the GPU driver.

[PlatinumSun]

Originally posted by Mikamus:

Have you enabled 10 bit via the GPU driver.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000092899/graphics.html

Maybe?

Intel are brainlets lmao.

[VBro96]

Make sure your monitor settings are set to HDR as well. Do you have buttons on the monitor to access your monitor settings?

[John Freak]

Originally posted by Платинове сонце:

Originally posted by VBro96:

If you have windows 11, don't use the in game HDR setting WHILE using the global HDR setting from the windows settings. Its best to use the global HDR setting and turn OFF HDR in every game.

10 unfortunately. Going to move to Linux. I mean 11 is ok and there is good 3rd party support to tweak it to my liking (its arguably slightly easier to make 11 look exactly like 7 or Vista than using 10) but Linux is also pretty good now.

But yah I know 11 has a good built in HDR.

Will using W10 Global HDR look bad though compared to ingame HDR? Should I just use Special K?

В чём смысл линукса? Я искренне хочу знать

[PlatinumSun]

Originally posted by Peter Patrick:

Originally posted by Платинове сонце:

10 unfortunately. Going to move to Linux. I mean 11 is ok and there is good 3rd party support to tweak it to my liking (its arguably slightly easier to make 11 look exactly like 7 or Vista than using 10) but Linux is also pretty good now.

But yah I know 11 has a good built in HDR.

Will using W10 Global HDR look bad though compared to ingame HDR? Should I just use Special K?

В чём смысл линукса? Я искренне хочу знать

I was asking myself this untill I tried it. Its just convenient. When Windows gives you trouble your conundrum is usually solved by obscure voodoo. When Linux gives you trouble its usually a matter of bad package or setting needs to be flipped. Linux issues are considerably less esoteric when you aren't doing heavily customised installs with certain distributions.

Uses alot less RAM and installs and loads incredibly fast, was ahead of the curve for UI and UI features. Free. Less oddities. It unfortunately has nothing as convenient as Rainmaker but like the Rainmaker community is way past its height anyways. Conky has the features but not the convenience.

Valve really came in with sponsorship of DXVK and Proton. Nvidia is finally making proprietary Linux drivers. And HDR will soon be properly supported.

Package manager and terminal is very convenient.

I switched off Linux as I switched to a somewhat amaturish distro (Nobara does its job well but its a one man band) which updated from KDE5 - 6 when it absolutely should not have especially since the dev said they were not going to move to KDE6 untill the next big patch for Nobara.

I didn't really have any issues that were not specific to a GPU of mine missing a firmware update for DP.

Anyways I wouldn't personally recommend Nobara, most people don't use an IBM Linux Distro so simple googling might not always come to your aid. And you would then need to go to the Fedora wiki. Versus something that is based off of Debian or Arch.

But like Desktop Environment is the main thing.

I expect 2025 to be an even better year for Linux.

[pirate135246]

Originally posted by VBro96:

If you have windows 11, don't use the in game HDR setting WHILE using the global HDR setting from the windows settings. Its best to use the global HDR setting and turn OFF HDR in every game.

this is just straight up false info, you need hdr enabled in game to get the correct color and luminence values for hdr. Just enabling it in windows will not give you hdr. Additionally auto hdr is a separate setting that you should not use either as its just fake hdr and it over brightens ui elements leading to burn in on oled panels. Elden Ring has from what I've seen the best hdr implementation if its working, the problem is that you have to restart your pc and immediately open elden ring before any other fullscreen games or applications or it bugs out.

[PlatinumSun]

Originally posted by pirate135246:

Originally posted by VBro96:

If you have windows 11, don't use the in game HDR setting WHILE using the global HDR setting from the windows settings. Its best to use the global HDR setting and turn OFF HDR in every game.

this is just straight up false info, you need hdr enabled in game to get the correct color and luminence values for hdr. Just enabling it in windows will not give you hdr. Additionally auto hdr is a separate setting that you should not use either as its just fake hdr and it over brightens ui elements leading to burn in on oled panels. Elden Ring has from what I've seen the best hdr implementation if its working, the problem is that you have to restart your pc and immediately open elden ring before any other fullscreen games or applications or it bugs out.

"Elden Ring has from what I've seen the best hdr implementation if its working, the problem is that you have to restart your pc and immediately open elden ring before any other fullscreen games or applications or it bugs out."

Ok but can I please have your .xml paste?

[Dew]

Im on win 10 and if HDR is set to OFF (in windows) before launching, the game will only allow HDR to be toggled on/off when the game is set to FULLSCREEN exclusive mode. If I use windows HDR before starting the game then HDR will only function correctly if the game is set to borderless fullscreen. In this case the HDR setting in game will still be unavailable but will not look washed out.