HDR looks really bad

[AlisterCat]

In dark scenes I think the HDR looks fine but any time it's sunny the white levels and black levels are completely blown out. I've tried adjusting the HDR brightness settings to their lowest but everything still looks way too high contrast and oversaturated.

Should I assume this isn't broken and is just how the game will always look with HDR?

I think the game could use some higher contrast but in this game it's Kiwami.

[GerardXu]

yeah, i found it too, no matter what i adjusted, gamma, peak brightness stuff, so i just turned it off. Hoping it could get patched tho.

[ArnoStalgik]

Same here with a gigabyte FO27Q3 :(
I tried to desactive auto hdr in windows but no changes...

[grizz]

yes, the HDR is awful. crushed blacks, brights that destroy detail. over blooming. it's unusable with the native settings. I've tried adjusting and it's just a different version of mangled. going to give rtx hdr a shot now. but hopefully they fix this because it's a shame it's not usable.

[grizz]

RTX HDR doesn't seem to be able to be enabled yet because the NVIDIA app hasn't yet onboarded the game. Frustrating, so we're stuck with awful HDR or SDR. SDR unfortunately is better.

[Yak]

Try putting HDR white contrast all the way down and rest to normal that seemed to help

[aseinsha]

looks better if you tune it ok, I have my peak brightness to where the object is barely visible and mid position on other two bars. ( oled screen) can always switch to rtx hdr.

[aseinsha]

Originally posted by grizz:

RTX HDR doesn't seem to be able to be enabled yet because the NVIDIA app hasn't yet onboarded the game. Frustrating, so we're stuck with awful HDR or SDR. SDR unfortunately is better.

just alt enter and make sure the game is in full screen mode or switch between boarderless and full screen and alt+f3 again it should show up as available.

[SuperMario69]

Originally posted by Yak:

Try putting HDR white contrast all the way down and rest to normal that seemed to help

This seemed to help me… I think. HDR in general is so confusing, when starting up a new game I never know if what I’m looking at is how its supposed to look or not.

[ObeseCatLord]

It sucks. I wish that you could adjust the black levels so they weren't so crushed. I'm glad that Yakuza is getting built in HDR now as neon signs look pretty in HDR.

[Ludicrits]

Originally posted by Yak:

Try putting HDR white contrast all the way down and rest to normal that seemed to help

This helps a lot, thanks. Can at least play it now until its patched without going blind.

[XCafeConLecheX]

Originally posted by SuperMario69:

Originally posted by Yak:

Try putting HDR white contrast all the way down and rest to normal that seemed to help

This seemed to help me… I think. HDR in general is so confusing, when starting up a new game I never know if what I’m looking at is how its supposed to look or not.

Yea... I find the games that clearly label nits as the unit of measure i can use my monitor information to get it right.... But when its just a level scale its annoying. But to be fair hdr, sdr, and color are typically user prefrence settings that you should adjust to your liking.

[Homebrew]

On the plus side by staring directly at the in-game sun I was able to light up my entire office at night so I didn't trip on my way to the bathroom.

[retsa2b]

There's a mod that fixes this, on Nexus. Like the author says, it's not as simple as a Reshade tweak. It un-crushes the blacks and whites, which a Reshade post-process can't do by itself, and also fixes the paperwhite (your UI) so that you can comfortably raise your screen's brightness all the way, or whatever you're comfortable with.

One of the rare times I've engaged with Nexus's upvote system.