hdr10 looks really washed out

[DeadJericho]

hdr off = great sdr picture
hdr scrgb = lovely picture
hdr10 = horrible washed out picture. overly bright and exposed

hdr10 is brighter so i want to use that really., and scrgb does have a performance hit.

any fix or insight into whats causing the problem? i dont remember it doing it before (its been a long time since i played this on pc via ubisoft launcher)



hdr is turned on always in windows 11
lg cx oled perfectly calibrated for hdr and sdr
rtx 4070 latest whql drivers

[Skylers Meth]

and this nonsense is why i don't turn on HDR if the game has that setting. One game needs it turned on in the desktop settings for it to work in-game, another game wants it off on desktop before it will work in the game. Sometimes either way just crashes my PC.

Now, I turn it off entirely everywhere and just use a reshade HDR shader if i want something extra.

[Let's All Love Lain!]

I've got the newest Aorus OLED monitor and I agree it's way too bright. It does look more colorful, but it's way over exposed. Far Cry 6 looks right, I think, in HDR but then bringing up the menu makes the game drop to 10-15 fps and stay that way. Who knew telling DirectX to use a different color setting was so hard?

[Midnight77]

Originally posted by DeadJericho:

hdr off = great sdr picture
hdr scrgb = lovely picture
hdr10 = horrible washed out picture. overly bright and exposed

hdr10 is brighter so i want to use that really., and scrgb does have a performance hit.

any fix or insight into whats causing the problem? i dont remember it doing it before (its been a long time since i played this on pc via ubisoft launcher)



hdr is turned on always in windows 11
lg cx oled perfectly calibrated for hdr and sdr
rtx 4070 latest whql drivers

I've got the new Alienware 4K OLED HDR 240hz monitor. For me to get HDR to show up properly and not grey I had to do the following:

In game, set video to Full Screen. Borderless wouldn't enable HDR 10. Only Full Screen.
On monitor settings get rid of Gaming HDR mode and set it to Peak1000 HDR mode

After that, you could immediately tell it was working on startup as the Nvidia logo in the top right corner was that beautiful bright green. :) The only HDR setting you can change is the Paper White. It's still displaying HDR through text that pops, etc. that you cannot modify in settings. I've settled on Paper White 300 for myself :)

NOTE: The biggest problem with HDR in the beginning is because the entire island is "fogged". You have to climb the radio tower and complete the island mission before all the fog goes away THEN you'll see a lot less brightness. :) :)