What is going on with the HDR in this game?

[THE AVERAGE]

Played this on the PS4 Pro, then again with the PS5 and the HDR on the consoles looked pretty nice. Here however, it's not really all that great, especially not with the whites. Snow often around objects looks like it's blazing neon blue, and the white flags all around the world look fine until you adjust the camera and then they too go to blazing neon blue and lose all detail.

It looks like there is some major clipping happening on the higher end, and I don't know if it's just a Windows problem, or an issue with the game itself, but it's pretty damn ugly whenever this happens.

[zefelino]

Notice that too. I think all games that rely on desktop HDR (that one you must enable trought the desktop video configurations on Windows) is all messed. Games like RE7 uses its own engine to turn HDR on and it seems to works a lot better. I don't like to turn desktop HDR on, 'cause desktop colors become all washed, so I gave up of HDR on these games. It seems like the thing is playing only on consoles nowdays. Devs aren't paying enought attention to details on PC.

[Liberty]

Are you using Windows 11?

With my LG OLED I have spent hours tinkering with HDR in God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn. The red and blue colors looked bad, washed out and lacked detail.

But yesterday a Windows 11 update came out that they say fixed some problems with HDR, I installed it, and all the glitches have magically disappeared. Now both games look stunning with HDR.

If you use Windows 11 update the system, to me it has solved all the problems with HDR.

[DM]

I had HDR on Win11 that was tinting everything white with pink/red. After messing with a lot of settings I discovered going into nvidia control panel > Adjust Desktop Color Settings > Tick the box for "Override to reference mode" cured the issue.

It might be worth a shot if you have an nvidia GPU.

[Tr0w]

Originally posted by Liberty:

Are you using Windows 11?

With my LG OLED I have spent hours tinkering with HDR in God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn. The red and blue colors looked bad, washed out and lacked detail.

But yesterday a Windows 11 update came out that they say fixed some problems with HDR, I installed it, and all the glitches have magically disappeared. Now both games look stunning with HDR.

If you use Windows 11 update the system, to me it has solved all the problems with HDR.

The only thing that update did that was HDR related was fix an issue where colours wouldn't render correctly in certain image editing software. It did nothing for desktop or gaming HDR.

[Liberty]

Yes it does, because the update has fixed my problem without touching anything.

Bad HDR in God of War, installed the last Windows 11 update, checked God of War the next second. and perfect HDR with the blue and red colors fixed. At least for me.

[WreckWren]

"but but but no fullscreen mode isn't a problem, I know because I don't care" - Sony & fanboys

[Kaldaien]

Originally posted by zefelino:

Notice that too. I think all games that rely on desktop HDR (that one you must enable trought the desktop video configurations on Windows) is all messed. Games like RE7 uses its own engine to turn HDR on and it seems to works a lot better. I don't like to turn desktop HDR on, 'cause desktop colors become all washed, so I gave up of HDR on these games. It seems like the thing is playing only on consoles nowdays. Devs aren't paying enought attention to details on PC.

Capcom does HDR all wrong unfortunately. They use proprietary driver APIs that require fullscreen exclusive and have been obsolte for 5 years now.

[WreckWren]

Windows has its own HDR issues, but hundreds of games have no problems at all - proving this is a developer competence issue.

[Kaldaien]

Originally posted by Powerwank3000:

I had HDR on Win11 that was tinting everything white with pink/red. After messing with a lot of settings I discovered going into nvidia control panel > Adjust Desktop Color Settings > Tick the box for "Override to reference mode" cured the issue.

It might be worth a shot if you have an nvidia GPU.

The game itself will tend to tint things yellow because it uses 11:11:10-bit color format for HDR.

Special K can change that format to 16:16:16 and then white is pure.

[WreckWren]

Originally posted by Kaldaieℵ₀:

Originally posted by Powerwank3000:

I had HDR on Win11 that was tinting everything white with pink/red. After messing with a lot of settings I discovered going into nvidia control panel > Adjust Desktop Color Settings > Tick the box for "Override to reference mode" cured the issue.

It might be worth a shot if you have an nvidia GPU.

The game itself will tend to tint things yellow because it uses 11:11:10-bit color format for HDR.

Special K can change that format to 16:16:16 and then white is pure.

Workarounds prove the game is broken.

[crowback]

Originally posted by WreckWren:

Originally posted by Kaldaieℵ₀:

The game itself will tend to tint things yellow because it uses 11:11:10-bit color format for HDR.

Special K can change that format to 16:16:16 and then white is pure.

Workarounds prove the game is broken.

b..b..but it's a perfect port that all other games should strive to equal. At least according to the internet. This port is not good it's okay at best. I've not played a game with mouse aiming that felt so bad since Dark souls 1 and 2.

[Kaldaien]

Originally posted by WreckWren:

Originally posted by Kaldaieℵ₀:

The game itself will tend to tint things yellow because it uses 11:11:10-bit color format for HDR.

Special K can change that format to 16:16:16 and then white is pure.

Workarounds prove the game is broken.

To be fair, nearly all games have broken HDR. So I don't know what your point is.

[Tr0w]

Originally posted by Liberty:

Yes it does, because the update has fixed my problem without touching anything.

Bad HDR in God of War, installed the last Windows 11 update, checked God of War the next second. and perfect HDR with the blue and red colors fixed. At least for me.

I installed the same update and it didn't change anything. Just read the patch notes, there were no fixes or changes to HDR other than compatibility with specific image editing programs. The HDR in the game is just bad, the sky is so blindingly white my eyes now have burn in.

[Piccolo113]

Y'all do realize that you not only have to turn on HDR on your desktop, but then go into the game's Display option menu, then to Screen Calibration and Enable HDR, right? Just checking, because some of you are mentioning washed out colors, and that's what it looks like if you only enable HDR on windows and not also within the game.

That said, that doesn't excuse the game blowing out white to glow neon blue and the sunrise in the sky to be a yellow that overtakes the entire sky at certain camera angles.

[Uranus Queen]

sorry but how to enable HDR for this game ?

i can't find HDR option anywhere on setting menu