No HDR (Thread now includes workaround for Auto HDR)

[HDRcade[Tyler]]

Welp looks like i'm getting SpecialK back out. It's 2023 and beth decides to go without in-game HDR support.

Edit -
Open Starfield install folder and copy .exe > name it 'farcry5.exe' > open Starfield properties in Steam > Under launch options type in the path in quotes with %command% at the end. example - "C:\install folder\farcry.exe" %command%
If you are running Windows 11 AutoHDR will kick in. Thanks to Sajin on this thread finding the fix and May1stBurst on reddit for the discovery.

[nike23]

Originally posted by BimboGooch:

Originally posted by nike23:

Wrong, every big new game ive gotten in 2023 has HDR support...this game not having HDR is a crime!

Every big new game isnt EVERY game though most games are not AAA games. Most the games I play that are AAA dont have HDR support.
Then again maybe they dont show HDR unless you have an HDR monitor. But im not wrong, most games in reality dont have it. Your view is skewed cuz you dont play much games if you think its in most games.

You wont see HDR option unless you have hdr display...RDR2, Hogwarts, Arkam Knights, God of war, forza, the crew motorfest, BG3, diablo 4, Uncharted, every single game that is AAA and a big time game has HDR my friend....i have them all, not skewed at all...of course you need an hdr screen to know what your saying...

[HDRcade[Tyler]]

Originally posted by nike23:

Originally posted by javla:

No it doesn't have a HDR settings, but since it doesn't have a Fullscreen mode, if you are using HDR on desktop, you would be still using HDR in the game.

not how it works my man...you can clearly see hdr is not enabled in the steam version, the whites should be very bright as they are in the gamepass version...also for auto hdr to work it needs full screen exclusive not borderless. Also if auto hdr enables it will give a notification that its enabled...but as i said the easiest way is whites, if they are dull and lifeless and the game is washed out, hdr is not enabled. There is a clear difference between the steam version (no hdr/auto hdr wont activate) and the gamepass version with the whites and colors as well as it actually brings up the auto hdr notification.

I mean the absolutely awful colour banding should also give it away.

[nike23]

Originally posted by HDRcadeTyler:

Originally posted by nike23:

not how it works my man...you can clearly see hdr is not enabled in the steam version, the whites should be very bright as they are in the gamepass version...also for auto hdr to work it needs full screen exclusive not borderless. Also if auto hdr enables it will give a notification that its enabled...but as i said the easiest way is whites, if they are dull and lifeless and the game is washed out, hdr is not enabled. There is a clear difference between the steam version (no hdr/auto hdr wont activate) and the gamepass version with the whites and colors as well as it actually brings up the auto hdr notification.

I mean the absolutely awful colour banding should also give it away.

Yup noticed that in the steam version...its not present in the gamepass version tho its beautiful...idk if maybe the gamepass version launches in a shell maybe that makes it full screen exclusive so auto hdr works...but whatever is the difference they need to fix the steam version asap im at 52 mins played on steam version so i will refund if its not fixed to look like the gamepass version.

[HDRcade[Tyler]]

It's a shame because SpecialK boots up fine and the main menu looks 10x better, just that it totally bricks when pressing new game, probably some lame anti-piracy protection or something (which is funny considering the game already cracked). Trying to figure out a work around now.

[Aryvian]

Isn't there a way to enable fullscreen in INI settings, like Skyrim and Fallout 4? It's the same engine.

[Juanstice]

The problem is too many people still don't even know what HDR is.
Here is what is happening with the PC version right now - and it is very unlikely that it makes a difference if it's Gamepass or Steam, of that more than 0.01% of the game download between those two stores/launchers, is different at all.

If you have a real HDR display and you launch with Windows in HDR mode, the game launches in HDR mode which is a very promising start. You will be treated to a gorgeous animated start screen of a star peeking from behind a planet screen, which seems to be rendered in-engine not pre-recorded, I think.. and besides this screen rendered in HDR and looks great, the star is very bright and the other side of the planet is jet black.

But once you get in-game, something is wrong. Everything looks washed out and light sources don't cast well.. light. In fact when you look directly at a light source like staring into a characters headlamp, .. how to describe it, the actual light information in what is being rendered is missing.. as if the monitor cannot understand part of the signal being sent to it. And this has definitely happened in other games before, I don't remember which ones on the market that were true HDR and and had this issue but this is not the first time.

Heck it may only be affecting certain displays. I have the Alienware Oled.

[nike23]

steam version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5vAhoZqNvE

Gamepass version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crUdewyDvv4&t

just look at the begining, of course youtube will only show hdr version if you have an hdr monitor, even tho the recording is in hdr on steam version just look at the opening credits letters, very dull and even at main screen, where as even tho it crashesh my recording software on gamepass verison look at the nice bright white text, and auto hdr notification come up...so yea steam version needs fixed.

[AmaiAmai]

Originally posted by maxstep:

I cannot wrap my mind around the fact that there is no HDR

There was by the looks of it infinite time to Diverity/Inclusion/Equity wonderful people but no time left for HDR

funny where priorities are

Well here's the thing, when crunching...adding features like that do not matter, esp. when it's an optional one. Performance is more important and as you can see the game is NOT and was NOT ready for any kind of release.

[BimboGooch]

Originally posted by nike23:

Originally posted by BimboGooch:

Every big new game isnt EVERY game though most games are not AAA games. Most the games I play that are AAA dont have HDR support.
Then again maybe they dont show HDR unless you have an HDR monitor. But im not wrong, most games in reality dont have it. Your view is skewed cuz you dont play much games if you think its in most games.

You wont see HDR option unless you have hdr display...RDR2, Hogwarts, Arkam Knights, God of war, forza, the crew motorfest, BG3, diablo 4, Uncharted, every single game that is AAA and a big time game has HDR my friend....i have them all, not skewed at all...of course you need an hdr screen to know what your saying...

Nah skewed you only mention AAA cuz its likely mostly what you play.
Most of those games do show HDR with out an HDR monitor though.
Go play anything thats AA or under, most wont have hdr.
But not like it matters.
having a monitor that supports HDR doesnt mean you know what youre talking about. Playing Almost only AAA games doesnt mean every game pretty much has hdr.
I have an HDR 2nd monitor anyways, I see hdr in all games youve mentioned. I dont see it in most AA and under games though. AAA makes up a small percentage of games.

[nike23]

Originally posted by Juanstice:

The problem is too many people still don't even know what HDR is.
Here is what is happening with the PC version right now - and it is very unlikely that it makes a difference if it's Gamepass or Steam, of that more than 0.01% of the game download between those two stores/launchers, is different at all.

If you have a real HDR display and you launch with Windows in HDR mode, the game launches in HDR mode which is a very promising start. You will be treated to a gorgeous animated start screen of a star peeking from behind a planet screen, which seems to be rendered in-engine not pre-recorded, I think.. and besides this screen rendered in HDR and looks great, the star is very bright and the other side of the planet is jet black.

That is literally NOT how hdr in windows works...if its not full screen exclusive auto hdr will not work first off, second just because you have windows hdr enabled does not mean you load the game in hdr if the game does not support/have settings for hdr because windows reads the meta data from the game and if it has no hdr your in sdr mode. Again you can see this in the above 2 examples just in the loading screen. HDR is never active in the steam version at all, it has no meta data.

[Zazzone]

Game use Windows auto HDR

[HDRcade[Tyler]]

Originally posted by Aryvian:

Isn't there a way to enable fullscreen in INI settings, like Skyrim and Fallout 4? It's the same engine.

Tried setting bBorderless=0 and bFull Screen=0 but still no dice.

[Lazerfocusing]

Looks fine on mine running HDR 4k. Why do you think you need a button for it? It is either on or it is not.

[nike23]

Originally posted by BimboGooch:

Originally posted by nike23:

You wont see HDR option unless you have hdr display...RDR2, Hogwarts, Arkam Knights, God of war, forza, the crew motorfest, BG3, diablo 4, Uncharted, every single game that is AAA and a big time game has HDR my friend....i have them all, not skewed at all...of course you need an hdr screen to know what your saying...

Nah skewed you only mention AAA cuz its likely mostly what you play.
Most of those games do show HDR with out an HDR monitor though.
Go play anything thats AA or under, most wont have hdr.
But not like it matters.
having a monitor that supports HDR doesnt mean you know what youre talking about. Playing Almost only AAA games doesnt mean every game pretty much has hdr.

Get out of here man lmao, super mega baseball 3 has hdr, mx bikes has hdr....i have over 400 games and ALLLLLLLLL of them will activate auto hdr if they dont have native hdr. If you dont have HDR why are you even speaking on something you have no clue about?

[BimboGooch]

Originally posted by nike23:

Originally posted by BimboGooch:

Nah skewed you only mention AAA cuz its likely mostly what you play.
Most of those games do show HDR with out an HDR monitor though.
Go play anything thats AA or under, most wont have hdr.
But not like it matters.
having a monitor that supports HDR doesnt mean you know what youre talking about. Playing Almost only AAA games doesnt mean every game pretty much has hdr.

Get out of here man lmao, super mega baseball 3 has hdr, mx bikes has hdr....i have over 400 games and ALLLLLLLLL of them will activate auto hdr if they dont have native hdr. If you dont have HDR why are you even speaking on something you have no clue about?

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_that_support_high_dynamic_range_display_(HDR)

Likely theres a little more. But this list is tiny.

Youre also lying saying all of your 400 games have HDR, theres not even that many games that support it.

Auto hdr isnt native hdr. You can have fake HDR with anygame. Not native hdr though. Which the post was talking about native HDR.