If you have an HDR dispay and want the original RE4 look...

[Shapely Twig]

Turn the Max Brightness (HDR) setting up to where you can barely still see the outline of the block.

Then turn it up 3 steps higher! Yes, your whites will clip but the overall brightness will be similar to the original game and let's be honest, there are absolutely no scenes in this game where you need calibrated whites. In films it's different because they have pure sky scenes.

I played the game with calibrated HDR and it was just too dark overall for my tastes. Had I not played so much of the original game I wouldn't have noticed but there it is...

[tap and die]

I'm sorry I don't want the game to blind me.

[Skkooomer Lord]

HDR looks trash for me.

[Shapely Twig]

Originally posted by tap and die:

I'm sorry I don't want the game to blind me.

Why would it? What scenes in this game are mostly highlightes? The village area? Because that is what I based this whole thread on and it is by far the brightest area in the entire game.

[Shapely Twig]

Originally posted by BLOOD:

HDR looks trash for me.

If HDR looks trash for you then you either have a trash display device or you are trash are calibrating it.

HDR can definitely look look terrible under terrible conditions but most of the time it is the biggest advancement in visual quality we have seen to date. In some cases. It even trumps the resolution jump from 1080p to 4K.

[tap and die]

Mostly highlights wouldn't blind me, it's the few highlights that would.

[Skkooomer Lord]

Originally posted by Shapely Twig:

Originally posted by BLOOD:

HDR looks trash for me.

If HDR looks trash for you than you either have a trash display device or you are trash are calibrating it.

HDR can definitely look look terrible under terrible conditions but most of the time it is the biggest advancement in visual quality we have seen to date. In some cases. It even trumps the resolution jump feom 1080p to 4K.

I prefer not to strain my eyes with exaggerated bright lights on a monitor I sit not so far away from and I don't have 1K plus just for a monitor to be good at being too bright.

HDR don't trump anything, just a subjective taste.

[Shapely Twig]

Originally posted by tap and die:

Mostly highlights wouldn't blind me, it's the few highlights that would.

What scenes exactly? I've beaten RE4 Original several times over and there are no scenes aside from the village that have any real ful highlight scenes. So WTF are you even talking about?

[tap and die]

HDR is great in this game, but normal settings are perfectly fine for me.

[DarkPassenger]

I can't imagine playing any game without HDR now a' days. If it doesn't have HDR, I am using Windows Auto HDR or Special K mod.

[LazyAmerican]

Yea this game is insanely dark to it's detriment

[tap and die]

Originally posted by Shapely Twig:

Originally posted by tap and die:

Mostly highlights wouldn't blind me, it's the few highlights that would.

What scenes exactly? I've beaten RE4 Original several times over and there are no scenes aside from the village that have any real ful highlight scenes. So WTF are you even talking about?

I have an OLED display with automatic brightness limiter. A full bright image becomes dim enough that it wouldn't hurt my eyes as much as an image with a few bright spots.

[Shapely Twig]

Originally posted by LazyAmerican:

Yea this game is insanely dark to it's detriment

Which is why I bumped the HDR levels up beyond the Capcom level.

Capcom is more conservative than Ron Paul. But ♥♥♥♥ their settings.
Trust me, you want to bump up the Max Brightness a few clicks beyond your white clipping. Otherwise, youn are playing a dim version of the game.

[Shapely Twig]

Originally posted by tap and die:

Originally posted by Shapely Twig:

What scenes exactly? I've beaten RE4 Original several times over and there are no scenes aside from the village that have any real ful highlight scenes. So WTF are you even talking about?

I have an OLED display with automatic brightness limiter. A full bright image becomes dim enough that it wouldn't hurt my eyes as much as an image with a few bright spots.

Poor baby. I have an LG OLED and never had issues with a few bright spots.

[EXPERIMENTONGOD]

This advice doesn't make much sense. That's what the "second page" on the HDR brigthness settings is for. You have to calibrate until you can barely see the "grey square" and then raise it ONE step more. Then on the HDR Britghtness page you can "set it to taste" (ignore the advice about red and blue being the same size). That's where you need to raise brightness if you find the game too dark.

You should not clip highlight detail when you simply can raise the average picture level on the second page for a less dark image if you want.