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Soldner42 Apr 12, 2021 @ 5:28am
HDR very dark in this Game, why?
I really love playing Games with HDR.
And i also tried playing with it in DRG, but its very Dark.. too dark actually when turned on. When in caves, everything stays dark when not using flares. I cant even see things when pointing my Flashlight towards it.
Why are there no Options in the Menu to adjust the HDR? :(
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Chibbity Apr 12, 2021 @ 7:14am 
A. It's supposed to be dark. Danger, Darkness, Dwarves!

B. You saw the word "experimental" next to it right?
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ShugoTheRipper Apr 12, 2021 @ 7:23am 
Most likely a experimental bug, also depending on your monitor it could support HRD but not have the nits to do it well.

HDR works well for me in other games, but not DRG.
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Soldner42 Apr 12, 2021 @ 7:32am 
Originally posted by Chibbity:
A. It's supposed to be dark. Danger, Darkness, Dwarves!

B. You saw the word "experimental" next to it right?
Yes i saw the experimental label. But whats wrong for asking necessary options? Just like People need Gamma Options for the Screen, you need paperwhite and Nits options for HDR to adjust the brightness and all.
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R.- Apr 12, 2021 @ 7:38am 
Originally posted by Soldner42:
Originally posted by Chibbity:
A. It's supposed to be dark. Danger, Darkness, Dwarves!

B. You saw the word "experimental" next to it right?
Yes i saw the experimental label. But whats wrong for asking necessary options? Just like People need Gamma Options for the Screen, you need paperwhite and Nits options for HDR to adjust the brightness and all.
Not against adding options, but still, you shouldn't be able to see much without flares after the adjustment. Everyone knows the flashlight is crap, it's intended.

If it could be adjusted in a way that the flares are no more necessary during gameplay, it's an exploit.
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Soldner42 Apr 12, 2021 @ 7:44am 
Originally posted by ShugoTheRipper:
Most likely a experimental bug, also depending on your monitor it could support HRD but not have the nits to do it well.

HDR works well for me in other games, but not DRG.
I use an ASUS ROG PG27UQ. Usually the Screen is able to give an very good Picture. The Screen works excellent with other HDR Games as well.
Just wanted to know if there is an option in DRG to brighten everything up a little. cause without HDR i can see everything kinda well, but with HDR.. the Black gets real black. But also poorly lighted areas which normally would be kinda visible are just pitch black. Which wouldnt be too bad if there were some Options ingame to adjust the overall brightness of the HDR. But so far i couldnt find any Options for that and wanted to ask if there are other Options that affect HDR? The Gamma option ingame doesnt do anything. I can brighten up my screen via its own Options, but that would destroy my Options in every other Game and also my Windows desktop would likely make me blind the moment i close down DRG.
Last edited by Soldner42; Apr 12, 2021 @ 7:46am
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Soldner42 Apr 12, 2021 @ 7:45am 
Originally posted by R.-:
Originally posted by Soldner42:
Yes i saw the experimental label. But whats wrong for asking necessary options? Just like People need Gamma Options for the Screen, you need paperwhite and Nits options for HDR to adjust the brightness and all.
Not against adding options, but still, you shouldn't be able to see much without flares after the adjustment. Everyone knows the flashlight is crap, it's intended.

If it could be adjusted in a way that the flares are no more necessary during gameplay, it's an exploit.
No no. You seem to misunderstand me. Its not about not needing flares. But the Point is that even Flares barely light anything up. Even the Starter Station is very dark. Some things are barely visible. And considering the overall brightness of the Game without HDR this darkness cant be intended.
Last edited by Soldner42; Apr 12, 2021 @ 7:45am
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Red Spot Apr 12, 2021 @ 8:00am 
Originally posted by Soldner42:
Originally posted by Chibbity:
A. It's supposed to be dark. Danger, Darkness, Dwarves!

B. You saw the word "experimental" next to it right?
Yes i saw the experimental label. But whats wrong for asking necessary options?

There is an experimental board to discuss experimental stuff in part cause some dun want the spoiler and rather just wait for the update.
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ShugoTheRipper Apr 12, 2021 @ 8:26am 
Originally posted by Soldner42:
Originally posted by ShugoTheRipper:
Most likely a experimental bug, also depending on your monitor it could support HRD but not have the nits to do it well.

HDR works well for me in other games, but not DRG.
I use an ASUS ROG PG27UQ. Usually the Screen is able to give an very good Picture. The Screen works excellent with other HDR Games as well.
Just wanted to know if there is an option in DRG to brighten everything up a little. cause without HDR i can see everything kinda well, but with HDR.. the Black gets real black. But also poorly lighted areas which normally would be kinda visible are just pitch black. Which wouldnt be too bad if there were some Options ingame to adjust the overall brightness of the HDR. But so far i couldnt find any Options for that and wanted to ask if there are other Options that affect HDR? The Gamma option ingame doesnt do anything. I can brighten up my screen via its own Options, but that would destroy my Options in every other Game and also my Windows desktop would likely make me blind the moment i close down DRG.

The game lacks exclusive full screen support; until it has that support real gamma control (Yes I am calling the in game slider fake, or an abstraction) will not be a thing. As without exclusive full screen the gamma is locked to the desktops settings. (Much like resolution, and refresh rate)

It is the same reason you need Windows HDR enabled for HDR to work in this game. While in other games (Horizon Zero Dawn, Evil Geniuses 2, etc) you don't as the software can override desktop settings with exclusive full screen.
Last edited by ShugoTheRipper; Apr 12, 2021 @ 8:39am
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Scuzz MB Apr 12, 2021 @ 9:40am 
Update 33 was the last gasp for me with HDR. I finally turned it off. Azure and Hollow Bough were almost unplayable with the darkness. Playing each mission with basically 75% of the screen pitch black was just getting to be too difficult. It looked nice and all, but the difference wasn't so much that it was worth crippling my ability to play the game.
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Chibbity Apr 12, 2021 @ 9:55am 
I just turned my gamma and brightness up a touch, 5-10 % makes DRG much more playable in HDR and I don't notice the difference anywhere else.

I'm sure more advanced options in game will come eventually though.
Last edited by Chibbity; Apr 12, 2021 @ 9:56am
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RUCKUS RELOADED Apr 12, 2021 @ 10:10am 
the hdr in deep rock looks really ugly, it's fine in most games but here it's more or less just "make the colours really washed out and even darker than normal"

i get that it's in an experimental stage but right now enabling it is just a flat downgrade imo. to be fair though i wouldnt be using it anyway because i care far more about performance over visuals
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Chibbity Apr 12, 2021 @ 10:15am 
Originally posted by kestrel:
the hdr in deep rock looks really ugly, it's fine in most games but here it's more or less just "make the colours really washed out and even darker than normal"

i get that it's in an experimental stage but right now enabling it is just a flat downgrade imo. to be fair though i wouldnt be using it anyway because i care far more about performance over visuals

It only looks like that in screenies, it looks fantastic in action.

Colors look extremely vibrant, that's kind of the whole point.

HDR has pretty much no performance hit, (it can cause slight input lag though similar to vsync, but most TVs have a game mode that reduces this) since it's more a TV hardware thing than a software thing.
Last edited by Chibbity; Apr 12, 2021 @ 10:21am
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Scuzz MB Apr 12, 2021 @ 11:06am 
Originally posted by Chibbity:
Originally posted by kestrel:
the hdr in deep rock looks really ugly, it's fine in most games but here it's more or less just "make the colours really washed out and even darker than normal"

i get that it's in an experimental stage but right now enabling it is just a flat downgrade imo. to be fair though i wouldnt be using it anyway because i care far more about performance over visuals

It only looks like that in screenies, it looks fantastic in action.

Colors look extremely vibrant, that's kind of the whole point.

HDR has pretty much no performance hit, (it can cause slight input lag though similar to vsync, but most TVs have a game mode that reduces this) since it's more a TV hardware thing than a software thing.

Ya, it looked fantastic, but in places like Hollow Bough for me, even a scout flare would put out light in about 5-8 meter diameter around it and everything beyond it would be pitch black. The colors were sharp and vibrant, the ones not in the blackness.

Pumping the gamma for me just began to turn the blackness kind of grey and started muting the colors I could see. I'm sure it's monitor to monitor as far as results, so I would recommend anyone playing with the HDR for a bit, but don't flip out if they can't get results that are satisfactory.
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