HDR on or off?

[tejofi]

How do u guys play it? With HDR on or off? And if you use HDR what are your settings/calibrations for it?

HDR has nice realistic colours and is darker where it should be BUT with HDR off the game has imo a better atmosphere. The colours are more washed out but it makes it better somehow.

[randir14]

The game looks way better with HDR on for me (playing on an LG C2). With HDR off everything looks washed out, and dark interiors are just gray.

[Slackerdude74]

This game looks great with the hdr on with my 65in uhdtv. One of the best so far.

[FluffyMangoRock]

calibrate nvidia control panel to output dynamic range full. don't use windows built in hdr. then the game should look hdr without changing in game settings. if you want toggle hdr on and off in game i recommend doing the control panel stuff first then seeing how things look with the in game hdr on and off.

[Mattee]

Ive got a Dell monitor with pretty good HDR and I use the default HDR settings with the exception of UI brightness which I turn down just a hair. For me HDR makes the game look considerably better.

[SESNut]

hdr is kinda busted. It says it only works in fse and borderless but it literally only runs in fullscreen exclusive and if you alt tab the cursor gets stuck until you press esc to open the menu then exit it

[Níðhöggr]

For my 600 nits monitor:

max lum 600
mid lum 28
min lum -4.2
brightness 1.5
ui 300 / 1.0

It looks really good.

[Lord Yoshi]

mine is on

i have a basic 400 nits
max lum 400
mid lum 27
min lum -15.80
HDR brightness 2.10

[Golgoth]

any idea for an Alienware AW3423DWF ?

[tejofi]

Originally posted by randir14:

The game looks way better with HDR on for me (playing on an LG C2). With HDR off everything looks washed out, and dark interiors are just gray.

Yes, but don't you think that washed out colours suit this game more? I mean we are talking about Silent Hill. It's a bleak, dark town with no life and endless fog.
Making the game more colourful with HDR doesn't seem such a good idea to me. The contrasts look better between light and darkness but the colours are a bit brighter and vibrant.

[Götterdämmerung69]

Originally posted by randir14:

The game looks way better with HDR on for me (playing on an LG C2). With HDR off everything looks washed out, and dark interiors are just gray.

What settings in hdr for c2 do you use?

[@R+5]

Originally posted by Dr. Ligma Ballz:

Originally posted by randir14:

The game looks way better with HDR on for me (playing on an LG C2). With HDR off everything looks washed out, and dark interiors are just gray.

Yes, but don't you think that washed out colours suit this game more? I mean we are talking about Silent Hill. It's a bleak, dark town with no life and endless fog.
Making the game more colourful with HDR doesn't seem such a good idea to me. The contrasts look better between light and darkness but the colours are a bit brighter and vibrant.

washed out colors dont help, silent hill or not. the basic quality of the photography comes first. the hdr option is one of the few positive additions to this game

[tejofi]

Originally posted by @R+5:

Originally posted by Dr. Ligma Ballz:

Yes, but don't you think that washed out colours suit this game more? I mean we are talking about Silent Hill. It's a bleak, dark town with no life and endless fog.
Making the game more colourful with HDR doesn't seem such a good idea to me. The contrasts look better between light and darkness but the colours are a bit brighter and vibrant.

washed out colors dont help, silent hill or not. the basic quality of the photography comes first. the hdr option is one of the few positive additions to this game

I didn't say the washed out colours "help" the game. It's just suits the game more.
It's like burial or wedding. You don't go there with a colourful suit or dress. You go there in a black or neutral colour.
It's the same thing with Silent Hill. If you look at movies like The Road or Eli's Book it's the same thing. It wouldn't give the same vibe and atmosphere.

[MrMuffinz]

Something I saw recommended and that worked for me is to leave the settings to default and then change max luminescence to whatever your monitor is rated for, leaving the rest or tweaking it as you see fit. This left the game looking correctly and closer to SDR in terms of not making it overly dark or bright.

Tweak it once you get to apartments or anywhere actually dark, I turned up my mid luminescence just a bit so that darkness was still dark but poorly lit rooms looked right.

[Ser Gìo]

Does anyone know how to activate the HDR option? In Windows I have it activated but then in the game it tells me that the screen is not compatible when in reality it is

[Donaldo Trumpado]

I'm on an LG C1 and the HDR looks great dialed-in