Samsung Odyssey g7 hdr washed out colors and grey tint

[Snowy]

Does anyone else have this? I don't know what settings to adjust anymore.I tried changing the nvidia control panel gamma and the sdr/hdr brightness slider but it just don't look good in this game and it's so frustrating when I see how good it looks on other pc's

[Arokhantos]

Set correct peek brightness nits settings and white point in nits, white point is usually same as peek nits.
You can also use Windows HDR calibration tool to set this in Windows so colors look fine in HDR as well

[Captain Furious]

User error

HDR pops on my OLED

[Blacksmith77K]

Originally posted by Captain Furious:

User error

HDR pops on my OLED

Agree

[Arokhantos]

Mine is extremely washed out until calibrated then it looks same as SDR assuming SDR content brightness is set to SDR brightness level of my display with brightness on display at 100% in HDR
Try the Windows HDR calibration tool it also explains how to calibrate it makes a huge difference, not all displays are calibrated.

[Roy]

I have one of the good G7's with HDR 600. Even if you get the colors fixed, 8 zones isn't enough for HDR gaming. It can't properly display saturated colors at the low luminance levels most of the zones will be stuck at, giving a total misrepresentation of gaming HDR.

[Arokhantos]

Originally posted by Roy:

I have one of the good G7's with HDR 600. The 8 zones aren't enough for HDR gaming. Even if you get the colors fixed it will be lacking saturation and will look worse than SDR.

I have a LG ultrawide it looks better then SDR also 600 nits, altho you are right about the zones probably needs more im not sure how many mine has.

[Roy]

Originally posted by Arokhantos™:

Originally posted by Roy:

I have one of the good G7's with HDR 600. Even if you get the colors fixed, 8 zones isn't enough for HDR gaming. It can't properly display saturated colors at the low luminance levels most of the zones will be stuck at, giving a total misrepresentation of gaming HDR.

I have a LG ultrawide it looks better then SDR also 600 nits, altho you are right about the zones probably needs more im not sure how many mine has.

If it is an OLED it doesn't have zones. Each pixel is individually lit and can also reach true black (turned off) but the G7's are VA panels.

[Arokhantos]

Originally posted by Roy:

Originally posted by Arokhantos™:

I have a LG ultrawide it looks better then SDR also 600 nits, altho you are right about the zones probably needs more im not sure how many mine has.

If it is an OLED it doesn't have zones. Each pixel is individually lit and can also reach true black (turned off) but the G7's are VA panels.

It's a ultrawide nano IPS i think it has 12 zones but its probably less
Im not a fan of something that burns in i often have windows always at same places on desktop so i would get burn in with oled wish there where more mini led displays tho especially ultrawides at 240hz that aren't from Samsung.

[RevFirst]

I have an Odyssey G7 32". My HDR was very washed about because Windows wrongly set the nits number way too high. (It should be about 600 instead.)

Follow Drew9140's steps. This is what fixed it for me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Monitors/comments/q4y0l5/samsung_g7_nits_peak_brightness_way_higher_than/hiyufg9?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

After this, download Windows HDR Calibration from the Microsoft Store, and use it to tweak some things for some finishing touches.

Originally posted by Roy:

I have one of the good G7's with HDR 600. Even if you get the colors fixed, 8 zones isn't enough for HDR gaming. It can't properly display saturated colors at the low luminance levels most of the zones will be stuck at, giving a total misrepresentation of gaming HDR.

Once I got the G7 settings to my liking (see above), I just keep HDR mode on. It's subtle, yeah, but the blue's and red's still really pop. That's good enough for me.

[Tr0w]

Originally posted by RevFirst:

I have an Odyssey G7 32". My HDR was very washed about because Windows wrongly set the nits number way too high. (It should be about 600 instead.)

Follow Drew9140's steps. This is what fixed it for me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Monitors/comments/q4y0l5/samsung_g7_nits_peak_brightness_way_higher_than/hiyufg9?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

After this, download Windows HDR Calibration from the Microsoft Store, and use it to tweak some things for some finishing touches.

Originally posted by Roy:

I have one of the good G7's with HDR 600. Even if you get the colors fixed, 8 zones isn't enough for HDR gaming. It can't properly display saturated colors at the low luminance levels most of the zones will be stuck at, giving a total misrepresentation of gaming HDR.

Once I got the G7 settings to my liking (see above), I just keep HDR mode on. It's subtle, yeah, but the blue's and red's still really pop. That's good enough for me.

Either the latest builds of Windows or the Calibration app are borked, I used to get around 600 nits with it and now I only get 400.

[Arokhantos]

Originally posted by Tr0w:

Originally posted by RevFirst:

I have an Odyssey G7 32". My HDR was very washed about because Windows wrongly set the nits number way too high. (It should be about 600 instead.)

Follow Drew9140's steps. This is what fixed it for me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Monitors/comments/q4y0l5/samsung_g7_nits_peak_brightness_way_higher_than/hiyufg9?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

After this, download Windows HDR Calibration from the Microsoft Store, and use it to tweak some things for some finishing touches.



Once I got the G7 settings to my liking (see above), I just keep HDR mode on. It's subtle, yeah, but the blue's and red's still really pop. That's good enough for me.

Either the latest builds of Windows or the Calibration app are borked, I used to get around 600 nits with it and now I only get 400.

you make it go till the square is invisible and not 1 step further

[Tr0w]

Originally posted by Arokhantos™:

Originally posted by Roy:

If it is an OLED it doesn't have zones. Each pixel is individually lit and can also reach true black (turned off) but the G7's are VA panels.

It's a ultrawide nano IPS i think it has 12 zones but its probably less
Im not a fan of something that burns in i often have windows always at same places on desktop so i would get burn in with oled wish there where more mini led displays tho especially ultrawides at 240hz that aren't from Samsung.

It's not 240Hz but there's the Cooler Master GP27Q, 500+ zones. I was going to pick one up but they're IPS and they have a VA version coming out early 2024.

[Arokhantos]

Originally posted by Tr0w:

Originally posted by Arokhantos™:

It's a ultrawide nano IPS i think it has 12 zones but its probably less
Im not a fan of something that burns in i often have windows always at same places on desktop so i would get burn in with oled wish there where more mini led displays tho especially ultrawides at 240hz that aren't from Samsung.

It's not 240Hz but there's the Cooler Master GP27Q, 500+ zones. I was going to pick one up but they're IPS and they have a VA version coming out early 2024.

Every VA if owned had 10+ dead pixels on it worst was 20+ dead pixels VA aren't worth it, and they often look glitched until warmed up as they age.

[Roy]

Originally posted by Arokhantos™:

Originally posted by Tr0w:

It's not 240Hz but there's the Cooler Master GP27Q, 500+ zones. I was going to pick one up but they're IPS and they have a VA version coming out early 2024.

Every VA if owned had 10+ dead pixels on it worst was 20+ dead pixels VA aren't worth it, and they often look glitched until warmed up as they age.

VA tech doesn't inherently have more dead pixels. Just saying VA or IPS doesn't denote quality either. Samsung G7's have the best VA on the entire market. No other VA is worth purchasing for gaming.

[Arokhantos]

Originally posted by Roy:

Originally posted by Arokhantos™:

Every VA if owned had 10+ dead pixels on it worst was 20+ dead pixels VA aren't worth it, and they often look glitched until warmed up as they age.

VA tech doesn't inherently have more dead pixels. Just saying VA or IPS doesn't denote quality either. Samsung G7's have the best VA on the entire market. No other VA is worth purchasing for gaming.

If never in my life seen dead pixels only bright one's and very rarely until i got Samsung VA like G9 bunch of times, returned many times gave up after receiving a doa without dead pixels but flickering pixel aray delivery person dropped corner on the pavement i think box had drag marks.