HDR is guff on PC. Any advice on a permanent fix?

[Xanathar]

To get HDR working on my PC I have to clean install the latest Nvidia driver, then shutdown, power off, boot back up making sure "Windows 11 Auto HDR" is off (which it always is), and only then will I get the correct image. But the rub is this will work for a few days and then seemingly randomly I'll boot up and it'll be back to that same hideous washed out urine colour until I repeat the process. Does anyone have a better solution than breaking my PC down to it's constituent parts only to rebuild them just to get HDR running on this TERRRRRIBLY optimised game?

Also, has anyone noticed horrible frame drops in certain areas with RT on, but only after dying and loading at the nearest Grace or Marika (the Ruins near Iji spring to mind)? I get sub-20fps with a 14900K, a 4080 SUPER FE, and 32 GB of Dominator @ 7000 MHz. It's rotten, and these two things are frequent and are jarring what is one of, if not the best open world RPG ever made.

[VOID01]

it bugged on elden ring,all u need to do is restart your pc and it will back to normal eventualy

[Rexeos]

Seems if I played another game before Elden Ring - had to restart PC to make HDR work again.

If I have on other monitor video or twitch fullscreen, HDR doesnt work sometimes as well.

[Alfwich]

Try this before installing a unnecessary tool:

Originally posted by Rexeos:

Originally posted by Alfwich:

Look up Custom Resolution Utility which has a function to restart your display's w/o having to restart the whole machine. I've been using it when HDR breaks with positive results.

You can also try "ctrl + shift + win + b" to restart driver - let us know if that works.

Look up Custom Resolution Utility which has a function to restart your display's w/o having to restart the whole machine. I've been using it when HDR breaks with positive results.

[Xanathar]

Originally posted by Alfwich:

Look up Custom Resolution Utility which has a function to restart your display's w/o having to restart the whole machine. I've been using it when HDR breaks with positive results.

Excellent advice! This has worked every time without having to mess around reinstalling drivers and turning the power off and on again.

As I understood from other posts, if I played another game or watched a video with HDR before playing Elden Ring it would mess it up, but I'd been playing ER exclusively so I have no idea why it started deciding it wasn't going to work. That game is such a trash port since my PC is as good as the highest end and I get terrible stuttering and frame drops – as described in my post – and it doesn't look as though anything will get sorted at this point.

Anyway .... thank you for the solution 😃👍

[Ninja 1^^]

This is an issue with nvidia drivers, not Elden Ring itself.

It happens in every game that makes the display switch to HDR at launch (for me it's Elden Ring, Hitman 3, and The Division 2), as opposed to games that require you to turn HDR on in Windows first (like Cyberpunk 2077).

[Xanathar]

Originally posted by Ninja 1^^:

This is an issue with nvidia drivers, not Elden Ring itself.

It happens in every game that makes the display switch to HDR at launch (for me it's Elden Ring, Hitman 3, and The Division 2), as opposed to games that require you to turn HDR on in Windows first (like Cyberpunk 2077).

That's useful to know. Makes one wonder why standardisation isn't a requirement for implementing HDR at this point. At least Elden Ring was a relatively easy fix, as I had a nightmare with Cyberpunk 2077, and it still never looks quite right as the time of day and night, and interior and exterior locations – all with varying levels of detail made up of complex surfaces like glass, metals, water etc. – can look perfect one minute and basura the next .

[Rexeos]

Originally posted by Alfwich:

Look up Custom Resolution Utility which has a function to restart your display's w/o having to restart the whole machine. I've been using it when HDR breaks with positive results.

You can also try "ctrl + shift + win + b" to restart driver - let us know if that works.

[Xanathar]

Originally posted by Rexeos:

Originally posted by Alfwich:

Look up Custom Resolution Utility which has a function to restart your display's w/o having to restart the whole machine. I've been using it when HDR breaks with positive results.

You can also try "ctrl + shift + win + b" to restart driver - let us know if that works.

Yep, this appears to force Windows to refresh the driver, and behaves in the same way as Custom Resolution Utility without having to use a program. Thanks for the help! It would be helpful for Microsoft to include some actual advice in the relevant section of their horrible UI instead of hacking away at it. I swear I use the old Control Panel for most things because the skin they've used on top of it is so useless.