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ryunohadouken has Dying Light 2: Reloaded Edition

Feb 3, 2022 @ 5:04pm

HDR and image quality

I'm running a Strix LC 6900xt and 5950x. This game is ugly! Colors are washed out and image quality is horrendous. What gives? Also, there's no way this is HDR. Color palette is very flat. Somebody help!!

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Feb 3, 2022 @ 5:05pm

I have 21:9 hdr monitor, and so far it doesn't support either natively. I had to tune up gamma to 20 to actually see color grading.

robochicken42 has Dying Light 2: Reloaded Edition

Feb 3, 2022 @ 5:10pm

windows hdr tends to be pretty crappy and has been problematic on other games supposedly win 11 is supposed to have a bettrer driver or way of handling it but win hdr has always been washed out for me

Ofan

Feb 3, 2022 @ 5:12pm

It doesn't seem like HDR is working right and with no calibration options it's impossible to tell but colours look pretty muted.

Edit: Maybe it's just the games opening section just hit a retina scorching high colour light source as I've got further. Some settings for HDR would be nice though so I don't have to ♥♥♥♥ about with my panel settings.

Last edited by Ofan; Feb 3, 2022 @ 5:18pm

Mord

Feb 3, 2022 @ 5:12pm

The game HAS no HDR support on PC currently. You'll notice in the display options there ARE no HDR options. Turn it off, perhaps in the future they will implement it.

ryunohadouken has Dying Light 2: Reloaded Edition

Feb 3, 2022 @ 5:14pm

Originally posted by Mord:
The game HAS no HDR support on PC currently. You'll notice in the display options there ARE no HDR options. Turn it off, perhaps in the future they will implement it.

I almost don't want to play it looking like this. I saw Digital Foundry's video and my game looks nothing like that! Playing on a 65" CX OLED

Mord

Feb 3, 2022 @ 5:18pm

Oh, with windows i just disabled HDR, it looks fine now. See if your tv has an option to disable it.

ryunohadouken has Dying Light 2: Reloaded Edition

Feb 3, 2022 @ 5:28pm

Originally posted by Mord:
Oh, with windows i just disabled HDR, it looks fine now. See if your tv has an option to disable it.

Ok. I fixed it! Funny thing is HDR was turned off in Win 11 Pro. I turned it on. But, before I exited the game I made sure DC12 Ray Tracing was cranked all the way up. I restarted the game, with Windows HDR on and it looks great! Just like Digital Foundry's video....lol. There has to be some sort of HDR implementation because it looks much, much better with Win 11 HDR on. Colors and overall image quality looks fantastic now.

Mord

Feb 4, 2022 @ 4:24pm

Originally posted by ryunohadouken:
Originally posted by Mord:
Oh, with windows i just disabled HDR, it looks fine now. See if your tv has an option to disable it.
Ok. I fixed it! Funny thing is HDR was turned off in Win 11 Pro. I turned it on. But, before I exited the game I made sure DC12 Ray Tracing was cranked all the way up. I restarted the game, with Windows HDR on and it looks great! Just like Digital Foundry's video....lol. There has to be some sort of HDR implementation because it looks much, much better with Win 11 HDR on. Colors and overall image quality looks fantastic now.

Curious. I turned it off as I found no setting in the game to enable it, or change brightness or white settings. It might be placebo, but Win11 supports AUTO HDR, which adds a version of it to games without support.

ryunohadouken has Dying Light 2: Reloaded Edition

Feb 4, 2022 @ 7:26pm

Originally posted by Mord:
Originally posted by ryunohadouken:
Ok. I fixed it! Funny thing is HDR was turned off in Win 11 Pro. I turned it on. But, before I exited the game I made sure DC12 Ray Tracing was cranked all the way up. I restarted the game, with Windows HDR on and it looks great! Just like Digital Foundry's video....lol. There has to be some sort of HDR implementation because it looks much, much better with Win 11 HDR on. Colors and overall image quality looks fantastic now.

Curious. I turned it off as I found no setting in the game to enable it, or change brightness or white settings. It might be placebo, but Win11 supports AUTO HDR, which adds a version of it to games without support.

The game definitely looks better now. I know there's no native HDR, but my settings are nice looking now. Dark scenes were horrible at first. Now, I can see everything clearly and the crushed blacks are gone. This game would be a ray tracing showcase with native HDR enabled.

Father Lamb has Dying Light 2: Reloaded Edition

Feb 4, 2022 @ 7:40pm

It's due to TAA.

Documents, dying light.. turn off anti-aliasing that way.. set it to 0.

Reddit is your pal.

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★ Smokes, Let's Go Ψ has Dying Light 2: Reloaded Edition

Feb 4, 2022 @ 7:41pm

reshade

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Father Lamb has Dying Light 2: Reloaded Edition

Feb 4, 2022 @ 7:42pm

This.. Fixes EVERYTHING with the washed out colors and more..

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2742230223

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Mord

Feb 5, 2022 @ 2:03pm

Originally posted by FatherLamb:
This.. Fixes EVERYTHING with the washed out colors and more..

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2742230223

It's even worse. Every piece of foliage when moving is a shimmery blurry mess. No way. Plus it defaults back ON with any changes.

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Father Lamb has Dying Light 2: Reloaded Edition

Feb 5, 2022 @ 2:04pm

Originally posted by Mord:
Originally posted by FatherLamb:
This.. Fixes EVERYTHING with the washed out colors and more..

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2742230223

It's even worse. Every piece of foliage when moving is a shimmery blurry mess. No way. Plus it defaults back ON with any changes.

Wrong... Works every time. Set the file to read only after doing this.

Worked for several people I spoke with... If you're on 1080p yeah it might look way worse.

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