HDR Is Broken - Doom: The Dark Ages - How Can This Happen?

[Lunetak]

https://youtu.be/iPa-Bk-kn2Y?si=JkzUZMFiMshPwPuS

[NOBLE SIX]

This is sad to hear :(

[GODzilla]

Eternal had pretty good HDR so I took this as a given. Way to let expectations down! -.-

On the other hand there is still the possibility for a quick fix. After all this is what advanced access is all about: Finding people rich / dumb enough to spend the money to play early, find the bugs and hopefully fix them before everyone can play.

That being said: Thank you for your service, advanced access players! :D

[NOBLE SIX]

Yeah, hoping for a day one patch over on gamepass!

[GODzilla]

They were quick to find a workaround:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwVjZUUT9Mk

Also, there is another tried method, but one that will cost a bit performance: Download Reshade, install for Doom Eternal, make sure to check Liliums HDR Shaders.

Ingame look for the "Lilium HDR black floor fix", enable it. In the settings for this shader activate "enable SDR black floor emulation".

You can play around with the 80 nits below, but setting it too high can make a game too dark overall.

[WeirdWolf]

Originally posted by GODzilla:

Eternal had pretty good HDR so I took this as a given. Way to let expectations down! -.-

On the other hand there is still the possibility for a quick fix. After all this is what advanced access is all about: Finding people rich / dumb enough to spend the money to play early, find the bugs and hopefully fix them before everyone can play.

That being said: Thank you for your service, advanced access players! :D

How dare you.

[-Joker-]

Originally posted by GODzilla:

They were quick to find a workaround:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwVjZUUT9Mk

Also, there is another tried method, but one that will cost a bit performance: Download Reshade, install for Doom Eternal, make sure to check Liliums HDR Shaders.

Ingame look for the "Lilium HDR black floor fix", enable it. In the settings for this shader activate "enable SDR black floor emulation".

You can play around with the 80 nits below, but setting it too high can make a game too dark overall.

for me reshade freeze the game at start. even steam warns me at start if i using an external overlay it might crash the game.. and doing it... usually denuvo products do not like reshade at all

[Balder]

Reshade works fine here, but I definitely noticed the visuals don't "pop" in HDR like Doom Eternal. I've used Clarity which helps, but there is a "grey filter" over the visuals - which is hard to remove. Will try the solution offered here, thanks!

[-Joker-]

which one did you install ?

[planbsurvivor]

Yeah, HDR is not working for me on my laptop HDR screen but it works fine with my OLED screen I use for my desktop. I had the exact same experience with Eternal, so there must be some conflict with the id Tech engine and certain screens.

[Chasm]

I use Special K -> it looks great with it. No black lever raise. BUT we should NOT be doing this.
Bethesda, Please fix!

[Balder]

Yeah, the solution mentioned helps, but it still looks "off".

HDR definitely needs to be fixed.

Special K looks the best so far, really shows how far off the in-game HDR is right now.

[GODzilla]

I never actually used SpecialK for HDR purposes. Any advice how to set up? For future reference that is, as I'm among the peasants who can only play starting May 15th. :D

[Balder]

Originally posted by GODzilla:

I never actually used SpecialK for HDR purposes. Any advice how to set up? For future reference that is, as I'm among the peasants who can only play starting May 15th. :D

Just open Dark Ages through SPecial K, and press the key command ctrl+shirt+backspace, and then open the HDR submenu, and tweak the settings to your liking. You just have to try it, but the game will be running in the background, so it's very easy to see what works or not.

Every setting has a very clear description, so Special K is a user friendly program.

Unfortunately the game will be more unstable and prone to crash with Special K running, if you change graphics settings etc. Also MSI Afterburner OSD/Riva Tuner must not be running in the background.

[GODzilla]

Originally posted by Balder:

Originally posted by GODzilla:

I never actually used SpecialK for HDR purposes. Any advice how to set up? For future reference that is, as I'm among the peasants who can only play starting May 15th. :D

Just open Dark Ages through SPecial K, and press the key command ctrl+shirt+backspace, and then open the HDR submenu, and tweak the settings to your liking. You just have to try it, but the game will be running in the background, so it's very easy to see what works or not.

Every setting has a very clear description, so Special K is a user friendly program.

Unfortunately the game will be more unstable and prone to crash with Special K running, if you change graphics settings etc. Also MSI Afterburner must not be running in the background.

Thanks, will give it a try come May 15th.

And, well...MSI Afterburner will definitely run in the background, as it is needed for my UV. What is usually causing instability in some games is it's overlay via RTSS, which I will specifically disable for DOOM The Dark Ages, thanks for the headsup. ^^

[Loller]

Originally posted by -Joker-:

Originally posted by GODzilla:

They were quick to find a workaround:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwVjZUUT9Mk

Also, there is another tried method, but one that will cost a bit performance: Download Reshade, install for Doom Eternal, make sure to check Liliums HDR Shaders.

Ingame look for the "Lilium HDR black floor fix", enable it. In the settings for this shader activate "enable SDR black floor emulation".

You can play around with the 80 nits below, but setting it too high can make a game too dark overall.

for me reshade freeze the game at start. even steam warns me at start if i using an external overlay it might crash the game.. and doing it... usually denuvo products do not like reshade at all

If it freezes after the intro videos then for me it was having frame gen enabled while using reshade. You can just click yes on the prompt to disable reshade temporarily then disable framegen.