Does HDR make the game darker? bland?

[MANILAMOSCOW]

I know it's up to your hardware as well. But I am curious to what others are experiencing.

[maul]

No.

[Winz]

depends lf u have a crappy hdr monitor 1000 nits is ideal

[R4zen]

Try to Change hdr setting using mod:
https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/7819?tab=description
And find best option for ur monitor/tv

[MANILAMOSCOW]

thanks guys i think the brightness was a little bit low so i adjusted the in game gamma

[MadLadVlad]

HDR is implemented pretty well in this game but they currently don't have control for brightness ingame (although they claimed its coming in a future patch).

If you have a good and bright hdr monitor you're going to have to go into your dx12user.settings files in your documents/witcher 3 folder and adjust HdrPaperWhite to something a bit higher (the value depends on your monitor peak brightness)

[Tommysonic5]

Originally posted by MANILAMOSCOW:

thanks guys i think the brightness was a little bit low so i adjusted the in game gamma

Yeahh I have my HDR displays calibrated (Windows HDR Calibration app) and just need to change gamma when I move from HDR monitor to HDR TV.

I didn't feel the need to get that mod that adds paper white or max nits settings.

By the way, for those running RT and HDR, do you all see bugged purple/pink windows, especially in Novigrad city? I wish I could narrow down the cause of this.
Here are a couple Reddit posts with the purple/pink windows bug:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Witcher3/comments/110gco8/hope_someone_can_help_me_does_someone_know_how_to/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Witcher3/comments/zm1wy2/purple_windows_with_raytracing_enabled/