No HDR in a 2025 PC game?

[that wasn't "Cash Money" of you]

This should be the standard by now - needing to resort to 3rd party tools is unacceptable for a full price game. Please patch in.

[Zyrconia]

Yup, I refunded for this reason. Well, it was more like the last straw...

[Primal Feed]

So HDR Monitors make for how much of the player base? LOL!

[Chungo Beepis]

oh really? i was going to try that tonight because the graphics are just insanely poor for 2025, i thought maybe it was a HDR game and i hadn't turned it on or something.

[Zyrconia]

Originally posted by Primal Feed:

So HDR Monitors make for how much of the player base? LOL!

While HDR monitors may or may not be super comon nowadays, couldn't find actual data, only anecdotal one, saying they are commonly available for sale, HDR TVs are super common and available in multiple standards for at least a decade.

Big AAA console devs constantly push graphics over gameplay and a big part of good graphics, the console look even, is HDR. It is part of the standard art asset development workflow and most common engines and Unreal especially can support it trivially. Easy to support whole having a PBR workflow.

Even before real HDR we had fake HDR, where several tone mapping techniques were used to avhieve similar results. For context, Google the whole "filmic tone mapping" era of console graphics.

Not supporting it in 2025 makes me severity doubt the competence of the devs: why did you not make use of this common low hanging fruit. Obsidian making this game: hmmm, what would make us more money and ensure we are not going to be devoured by Microsoft? HDR? Nah son, pronoun slider!

And yes, fantastic HDR may be difficult to achieve, but decent one can be half assed and looks better than SDR. Nvidia can now inject it with a glorified filter they will sell you as "AI super rtx vision" or something.

TLDR: HDR or GTFO no meney for you, you irresponsible devs you!

[ko]

Flipping the HDR switch in Unreal Engine is hard.

[Janthis]

Originally posted by Chungo Beepis:

oh really? i was going to try that tonight because the graphics are just insanely poor for 2025, i thought maybe it was a HDR game and i hadn't turned it on or something.

Wow, trolling used to be at least believable...

[Litoh]

Originally posted by that wasn't "Cash Money" of you:

This should be the standard by now - needing to resort to 3rd party tools is unacceptable for a full price game. Please patch in.

If you have an NVDIA GPU, use RTX HDR, many many times it's even superior than the built in game's HDR.

[Hardwenzen]

Its a lazy, no talent no straight to gamepass shovelware, so its normal.

[DeadJericho]

Originally posted by Litoh:

Originally posted by that wasn't "Cash Money" of you:

This should be the standard by now - needing to resort to 3rd party tools is unacceptable for a full price game. Please patch in.

If you have an NVDIA GPU, use RTX HDR, many many times it's even superior than the built in game's HDR.

you lose 10-20% performance by using rtx hdr
not really a viable solution especially considering that unreal engine 5 has hdr built right into it.

i would cut obsidian some slack of this was an inhouse developed engine, but its not. so i dont in that regard

still looks great on my oled though, even without hdr

[Dplanet]

Yes, it still looks great on my oled TV though also, even without HDR, but I hope this HDR mode will be added to this good looking game very very soon...

[Zyrconia]

When it gets HDR, I'll re-buy it :)

Until then I'll enjoy my refund money.

[Litoh]

Originally posted by DeadJericho:

Originally posted by Litoh:

If you have an NVDIA GPU, use RTX HDR, many many times it's even superior than the built in game's HDR.

you lose 10-20% performance by using rtx hdr
not really a viable solution especially considering that unreal engine 5 has hdr built right into it.

i would cut obsidian some slack of this was an inhouse developed engine, but its not. so i dont in that regard

still looks great on my oled though, even without hdr

Just buy a scalped 5090 and brute force it. Solved!

[PlutoniumX]

LMFAO no HDR..... its called TURN it ON in WINDOWS..... hmmm if you are unsure on how to do that then look it up its really easy to do

[a2raya]

remember they charging $74 USD...

[a2raya]

Originally posted by PlutoniumX:

LMFAO no HDR..... its called TURN it ON in WINDOWS..... hmmm if you are unsure on how to do that then look it up its really easy to do

windows HDR is meh tho..