my HDR settings for LG OLED TV

[Nebtsatet]

Hi,
here is some tips for lucky people using LG HDR oled tv to play AC:O

first , some intro , im 46 french oold gamer, computer scientist, working in hmi , cloudthingies etc. I invested in calibration hardware for my LG 55B6V oled tv and played about 6 months to find the best settings for movie watching given strength and weaknesses of the oled technology.

with some tweaking we could achieve a hdr like rendering without the hdr activation . Now that ubi activated HDR on PC, let's set up the TV and pc accordingly.

PC:
win 10 / latest version,
on your graphic card settings : set it to 4:2:2 YUV for 4K , 4:4:4 for 2K , LG tv does not support 4:4:4 in HDR 4K
gamma setting in win10 left as default.
win10 extended colors disabled (the game will set it for us)
unless you have a 1080ti , use 1080p resolution, the tv will extrapolate to 4K by its own cpu.
my conf : 6700K + amd RX480

for users with old 5.1 amplifier that does not support HDR passthrough, here is the workaround: connect the HDMI to the TV set directly. Problem: we cannot use 5.1 channels only stereo. So the trick is to use a second hdmi cable to your amp and set the audio output to this second "fake" monitor as 5.1 channels (or more if you have). Caution , win10 must be set as extended display and not as duplicate display, because in that last case it would apply the worst setting and will force your graphic card to 8bit colors. while in extended display, each screen will have its own config : so 10bit 4:2:2 YUV for TV and 8bit for the old amplifier.

ready to go ?

launch AC:O set it to HDR.
the OLED tv is recognizing the signal and must show you a nice HDR icon for 5 sec on top right.
now we have 4 settings available: HDR standard, HDR bright, HDR vivid, HDR game.

HDR game mode is optimized for latency, so this is the one to use , BUT , if you have low fps , lets say 30-50ies , you may prefer standard/bright one , since you can activated the frame smoothing algorithms, it s blurrier but make it really smooth , in particular if you force 30im/s , personnaly i set the refresh to 50im/s to have stable and quieter play. Moreover if you let the default 60Hz refresh setting, the HDR game mode locks (i don't know why) some advanced setting we want to change. While forcing 50Hz the HDR game mode advanced setting are unlocked.

HDR game mode TV settings
OLED 100 (max)
Contrast 95 ( max is burning whites)
Brightness 48 (normally it should be left to 50).
Color Temp W40 ( the good 6500K value is W50 at latitude 40, but we are in Egypt so W40 is more eye pleasing).
sharpness 15 (not more)
Color 44-46 (too much saturated with 65 as default, 40 is more photographic in green swamps)
tint 0

Advanced setting
dynamic contrast :off (low is burning white on stones by daylight)
dynamic color : off
Color : Extended (default value , for movie it must be set to normal)
extended resolution: low or medium (this is the interpolation algorithm on the 4K tv)
Image Options:
black level : low

in the game :
luminosity : 50
HDR setting : 1000 / 150

the black level seems not to be good , that s why i corrected it using the TV brightness to 48 in place of 50. We could use the game brightness to 40 , but i found this mess up the equilibrium between day and night in the game. If ubi could add a night darkness setting it would help so much.

and voila ( so french) , blinding moon /sun reflection on the water , blinding torch light ! with delicate black gradient, very accurate day colors on stones, paintings , wow effect , and the famous true black with oled ! If you want to share your own settings for other HDR tv sets , and discuss on my choices , you are welcomed.

And thanks ubi to make it .. at last :)

[0209kwon]

引用自 Nimgor：

Sorry sloppy reading from me..
And: No idea why it behaves like that, strange indeed

hi. i need your help.

my moniter is dell u2718q

my hdr setting : ycbcr422, 8bit, limited, window10 hdr is auto on when start AC:O

when i control in-game hdr setting to 550-350(this is my morniter spec), The screen is too bright.

unwillingly using to 270-200.

And the black level seems not to be good. really bad..

I use msiafterburner. you said msiafterburner ruins the hdr effect.

if i turn off msi afterburner, black level will be ok?

[Fat Caz]

That was my problem, yes. So turn it off completely and start the game, it might fix it. Come back and share your results mate :)

[Nickson666]

I never use dynamic contrast except for the HDR Game mode that they broke in the last firmware and don't want to fix. They tell us to use dynamic contrast or it's dime as if brightness is set to 20%. Did you rolled back your firmware to before the idiot version? If you burn whites why you set it to 1000?

They say it's for quality but implemented it only in the mode where we almost don't give a damn and we only want eye candy. It doesn't make sense.

[Fat Caz]

This MSI thing is crazy, with it on it looks like ♥♥♥♥ at 200 or higher, ON looks like ♥♥♥♥ and it cant be fixed for me. With it Off 1000 looks spectacular. Crazy difference.
Im on 04.70.30 LGB7V

[Morph]

I took a while and some patches from win10 and ubisoft to get it working on my lg eg960v (9600).

Nvidia Driver 390.65
Game Version 1.2.1

Tv settings:
Hdmi input set as gameconsole or game. NOT PC!! (Washed out picture)
+Game Mode Picture setting. On this model the game console input lag is also a little bit lower according to hdtvtest
Hdmi ultra hd deep colour setting on.

Nvidia driver:
So you can set it manually to 442 10bit but you will have false colors in other games like for exmp. Far cry 3. So you have to adjust it every time you want to play an other game.

I let windows do the change automatically by using standard colour setting in the nvidia panel and not nvidia colour setting.

So if you turn on hdr in the game it will automatically change to 422 10bit.

Ingame hdr setting 1000/150
Also trying 900/150 so i can see more details in the sun. Not sure what is correct.

In 4k with hdr on i have about 5-10 lower fps compared to hdr off.
Benchmarks, ca. 8300 off and 7400 hdr on.

Do you guys see any performance diffrences?

Pc specs
8700k
1080ti
16gb ram

Greetz

[GamingDJ]

I always wonder will a gamer amp up their monitor to 1000 nits and play for long ?isn't it too much, can u view the screen for longer sessions without specs ?

[Fat Caz]

引用自 deejay1204：

I always wonder will a gamer amp up their monitor to 1000 nits and play for long ?isn't it too much, can u view the screen for longer sessions without specs ?

Probably depends on the TV but I keep my contrast at max 75 because I don't like it to bright. The HDR nits is more quality than brightness. Contrast is what hurts my eyes. In my opinion.

[IndigoAK]

引用自 _onyx_：

There are not yet any real HDR TV's monitors in de market. They are planned for realeas in 2018.

All current TV's claiming to be HDR are not. For HDR minimal 1000 nits is required. Current equiment only does 400 nits.

This is false.

The 1000 nits requirement is only for LCD panels. The HDR spec only requires 540 nits for OLED panels because of the fundamental difference in the way pixels are lit.

[Pudsley]

引用自 Fat Caz：

MSI Afterburner must be OFF or the entire HDR picture is ruined for me.
Took me quite a while to figure out!
Windows 10, GTX980ti, LG Oled 55 B7V
Ingame HDR settings 1000/150, graphics maxed out at 1080P, brightness at default 50.
TV settings is pretty standard for HDR but I have contrast at 75 and all settings that can be turned off, -off

Just wanted to say...you sir are a legend.

I had my 980ti working with my OLED 55 C7V for a long time, upgraded to the MSI Duke 1080ti (£150 from a friend who did a couple of months mining with it, works fine) and for the life of me couldn't understand why HDR content such as AC Origins was unplayable, extremely dark, washed out.

Searched the net, couldn't find the answer, then I saw your post and the penny dropped, I had the same problem with the 980ti and only installed MSI Afterburner last night for the FPS OSD to check framerates in non HDR games before I upgraded.

Exited Afterburner and Riva Statistic Tuner (the OSD component), all working fine again.

Thanks again.

[Fat Caz]

Glad I could help :)