HDR washes out my colors

[DrFusion3000]

as above, playing on an oled 4k LG 65" with freesync on, 6800xt up to date drivers. no matter what i turn the HDR settings to the colors dissolve, i turn it to SDR and the menu blue (as a random example) comes back in to what i suspect is what the game should actually look like.

does this happen to anywone else?

[Ninja O Burisuta]

its by design i believe, your better off modding with reshades or whatever imo, i didnt see the upshot of hdr mode myself

[Timeraider]

The HDR in this game is terribly implemented and unusable. Best to leave it off :)

[Mustelídeo]

Since the game doesn't have exclusive fullscreen, it can't enable HDR by its own. To use HDR, you'll need to enable both Windows' HDR and the ingame setting. After that, I recommend messing with color space settings on your GPU Control Panel. Since I use NVIDIA, I can't guide you with this, but I use RGB set to FULL instead of LIMITED.

When using Windows' HDR, I change my TV's black levels to LOW. For SDR mode, I use NORMAL (HIGH on some TVs).

Low black level makes the color more vivid and vibrant, but breaks dark scenes. With HDR, this doesn't happen, at least with my TV.

DX11 breaks this game's HDR, so make sure you are using DX12.

I hope this helps.

[Cpl-Hicks]

Agreed.. it's a terrible port and HDR is ♥♥♥♥ even after the recent 10Gb patch.. sure Square is not getting a penny from me for Rebirth.

[Valkyrslayer]

HDR looks great in this Game. My guess is you are running your display in wide color gamut even in SDR so you got used to oversaturated colors.
if your LG has a color gamut setting set it to auto detect. Do not set it to native or your Display will dispaly everything in wide color gamut which oversaturates all SDR content.

[supersaiyaman11589]

Cpl-Hicks as long as the game is good why would hdr matter too you yes hdr is not implemented properly in the game but that doesn't change the fact that it is a well done. game. if hdr is your only reason for not getting rebirth that makes no sense to me.

[Zyklon]

Make sure windows auto hdr is turned off, some games (a lot released in 21-22) don't detect auto hdr.
The hdr is really great for the most part, handcrafted specular highlights are very noticeable. Only real issue is overused fog as it really messes up the black floor and muddies colours in so many areas, it's a design choice to give the city a "polluted" feeling.
Fogless areas look perfect in comparison.

[Drysyn]

OP is not the only one who's colours wash out when HDR is turned on, my 55" OLED tv does it too, and no auto HDR on windows is not turned on ;)

[Abiz]

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n7f2sm5d1lr?rtc=1&hl=en-us&gl=US
Microsoft released a HDR tool. Maybe it will help. I know it helped a lot in general with having HDR on for my monitor.