Lack of HDR is Very Disappointing

[Chest Rockwell]

So far I'm actually loving the game a lot more than I expected to, and it's exciting playing a brand new IP with such a high level of presentation. The graphics are very colorful and impressive and the story so far has been enjoyable. I'm just really surprised there's no HDR for a game like this that would clearly benefit so much from it. I would love it if the devs could implement it in a post launch patch but I assume that's not likely to happen. I've never dabbled in Special K for HDR in the past but I might have to with this one.

[Trevor Reznik]

You're my wife now!

[hiczok]

I am playing ps5 version and unpatched, off the disc, ps5 with setting "hdr on when supported" does enable HDR for this game and it looks to be running with HDR, except all UI is looking like lower bit depth with a tons of banding.

After I patched the game, ps5 no longer detects the game as HDR and switched to SDR.
When I enable "hdr always on" in ps5 system settings, the game looks about the same as it did without a patch, which leads me to believe htat patchless version was still REALLY SDR but only reported wrongly as HDR and it was an sdr game launched in HDR container which is incorrect.

But I have no measurements or anything. It is difficult to remember how it looked, patch it, force hdr and see how it looks again.
One thing - the patch fixed gradients for UI elements even with forced HDR

[Tempus]

There is a bug in the Unreal 5.1 HDR tonemapper that prevents the blue channel from being able to be changed (and defaults it to a bad setting) which means that when the colors blow out they go to blue instead of white.

There is a CL than can be pulled from the 5.2 repo to fix this.

[Richard Guyot]

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[Rajackar]

Just fired up the demo and I can't believe there's no HDR. Not even windows autoHDR.
Also lots of stutters on my 7800X3D / 4090.
No way I'm spending money on this.

[ssj3rd]

So still no HDR with the newest updates??

[Tycoon Padre]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ImmortalsOfAveum/comments/17ke8hn/hdr_update/ As of a month ago, they're working on it. Though who knows, given the sales of the game and the health of the studio.

Add me to the list that's shocked that it isn't in there. I quite liked the demo but in 2023 I've gotta have HDR. It just looked bad on an OLED screen, super washed out (and no, crushing blacks with the gamma slider isn't a fix)

[e.escalona88]

ok, i save my money om this game. no hdr no buy,

[Nutrie]

You guys have too high standards. HDR now, or, even better, no HDR no buy? Really?

I think this is the least of our problems in gaming nowadays.

[Stabbo]

Refunded once I realized the ridiculous oversight.

[Richard Guyot]

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