Correct way of using HDR

[Kenny]

Hello, I just bought this game and noticed it has HDR, but it seems like fullscreen is not the way to use it, it looks dark and off. However I read online that the right of using it is to stay in borderless mode.

I tried it and it seems fine now. Is this the right way of using HDR?

[wkitty42]

someone posted something in the last several days about turning off HDR, adjusting the in-game contrast setting, i think, to 100% and then enabling HDR again... supposedly on their system, that made HDR better and not so dark...

[Kenny]

Originally posted by wkitty42:

someone posted something in the last several days about turning off HDR, adjusting the in-game contrast setting, i think, to 100% and then enabling HDR again... supposedly on their system, that made HDR better and not so dark...

To me fullscreen seems to be the problem. It's dark in there, it isn't in borderless.

[Finaryman]

Originally posted by Kenny:

Originally posted by wkitty42:

someone posted something in the last several days about turning off HDR, adjusting the in-game contrast setting, i think, to 100% and then enabling HDR again... supposedly on their system, that made HDR better and not so dark...

To me fullscreen seems to be the problem. It's dark in there, it isn't in borderless.

it's dark to add constrast to the bright colors, so they seem shine more

if u buy normal non hdr display the colors on the display r not even that bright at max

consider the hdr mode as using it as normal display, but the high end colors r even brighter



myself i have hdr monitor, but i have it in non hdr mode, both windows and game

[wkitty42]

Originally posted by Kenny:

Originally posted by wkitty42:

someone posted something in the last several days about turning off HDR, adjusting the in-game contrast setting, i think, to 100% and then enabling HDR again... supposedly on their system, that made HDR better and not so dark...

To me fullscreen seems to be the problem. It's dark in there, it isn't in borderless.

i'm only relaying what i read in the last few days... i don't do HDR right now so i can't offer anything more... sorry...

[MAD Pigeon]

Originally posted by wkitty42:

someone posted something in the last several days about turning off HDR, adjusting the in-game contrast setting, i think, to 100% and then enabling HDR again... supposedly on their system, that made HDR better and not so dark...

Yes, that was me. I deleted it cause nobody saw it.

[MAD Pigeon]

1) Disable HDR to reveal the gamma slider.
2) If your gamma is at 50% (like what mine was defaulted at) then increase it to 100%.
3) Toggle HDR back on.

Now 400 should look nice, especially 600 and 1000 hdr modes, which were previously super dark with the ui as well.

Before I discovered this, another workaround was to just switch to borderless and restart the game.... but I didn't like this because I preferred g-sync not to work in windowed applications....
^I edited out the borderless workaround before I deleted the post.

[Kenny]

Originally posted by MAD Pigeon:

1) Disable HDR to reveal the gamma slider.
2) If your gamma is at 50% (like what mine was defaulted at) then increase it to 100%.
3) Toggle HDR back on.

Now 400 should look nice, especially 600 and 1000 hdr modes, which were previously super dark with the ui as well.

Before I discovered this, another workaround was to just switch to borderless and restart the game.... but I didn't like this because I preferred g-sync not to work in windowed applications....
^I edited out the borderless workaround before I deleted the post.

Thank you, this sounds handy. I Will try it out.

[Kenny]

Originally posted by MAD Pigeon:

1) Disable HDR to reveal the gamma slider.
2) If your gamma is at 50% (like what mine was defaulted at) then increase it to 100%.
3) Toggle HDR back on.

Now 400 should look nice, especially 600 and 1000 hdr modes, which were previously super dark with the ui as well.

Before I discovered this, another workaround was to just switch to borderless and restart the game.... but I didn't like this because I preferred g-sync not to work in windowed applications....
^I edited out the borderless workaround before I deleted the post.

Yeah that works out, though 400 looks the best to me. 600 and 1000 seem to make things more transparent, 400 looks the best to me.

[wkitty42]

Originally posted by MAD Pigeon:

Originally posted by wkitty42:

someone posted something in the last several days about turning off HDR, adjusting the in-game contrast setting, i think, to 100% and then enabling HDR again... supposedly on their system, that made HDR better and not so dark...

Yes, that was me. I deleted it cause nobody saw it.

apparently I saw it

seems to me like a good workaround and possibly worth a bug report to HG's zendesk so they can allow access to that control for adjustment since it is apparently used... i hate that i forgot it was the gamma instead of the contrast... but i'm also happy that you found this topic and corrected me!

[Johnny in the Clouds]

This is useful to know. I will try HDR again as thought it didn't look any better than without it enabled. I never thought to question that something else might be affecting HDR. Thanks for the post KENNNNYYYYYYY! : ) Hope it works I'll have to try it now.