Can't enable HDR

[antych]

I'm trying the demo. Enabled HDR in windows. HDR checkbox in the game became active. Checking it doesn't do anything, the image still looks the same, washed out. Sometimes the screen will blink like it's doing something but nothing changes. Closing options and re-opening shows the HDR box unchecked. It happens every time, check it, nothing changes, go back into options and it's not checked. Anyone got HDR working in this game?

[Unmutual]

Originally posted by antych:

I'm trying the demo. Enabled HDR in windows. HDR checkbox in the game became active. Checking it doesn't do anything, the image still looks the same, washed out. Sometimes the screen will blink like it's doing something but nothing changes. Closing options and re-opening shows the HDR box unchecked. It happens every time, check it, nothing changes, go back into options and it's not checked. Anyone got HDR working in this game?

Our HDR functionality is currently in test. This is our first foray into the tech and we don't have a large amount of HDR displays at our disposal to experiment with. Try launching the game with the following parameters -dx12 -hdr

That should ensure that HDR stays on. We'll be continuing to work on this as we get more feedback.

[antych]

Ah, ok, I think it still needs work. Adding -hdr helps, the toggle works now, however the HDR image doesn't look good, it's over saturated. maybe it's using the wrong colour space or something. e.g. after exiting the first room, the ground is super bright yellow and the sky becomes pink/purple, very different from the SDR image. I thought maybe it needs calibration, but the brightness slider in HDR only affects HUD and the rendered image doesn't change. I hope you'll get it working, DLSS and RT is already impressive, to be honest I was surprised to see the HDR toggle anyway :)

[Kaps]

I had the same issue, after turning on Windows HDR, my monitor would go into HDR mode however the toggle in Amid Evil wouldn't stay selected and wouldn't turn on HDR. It looks like using the -hdr flag does work. Seems to look ok to me re: color space.

[antych]

It definitely doesn't look right for me. I've made a screenshot comparison. Capturing HDR distorts the image, so this isn't exactly as on the screen, but it's fairly representative of the problem. If anything, the image should be more washed out when captured from HDR, but here all the colours are blown out and details are lost.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2491251036

[Lafazar]

Here too HDR only stays on with the launch parameter. Also the game looks way too dark with HDR active on my system.

[FlyinJ]

The way I got it to work is not use the flag, enable HDR in windows, then load the game and enable it in-game.

If I use the -hdr flag, everything is far too bright and saturated.

[King Whiffer]

I tried to use HDR but Amid Evil crashed. At first, I turned on Windows HDR then launched the game. Checked the box for HDR and loaded a level. No difference. Went into options and HDR is unchecked. I check it and nothing changes. So then I exit game and put in the flags you specified. The game didn't launch with HDR checked so when I clicked the checkbox, it crashed. I took a screenshot of the error here :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sETbF6W4o1QSt1VV73uGm6kUflm7mUOL/view?usp=sharing

Running an RTX 2060 FE

[Kaps]

Originally posted by Lafazar:

Here too HDR only stays on with the launch parameter. Also the game looks way too dark with HDR active on my system.

It's definitely darker in the dark areas than SDR but it's more contrasty (the lighter parts are also brighter). The brightness control does not appear to work in HDR and only changes the brightness of the menu overlay but not in game graphics.

[Lafazar]

Originally posted by Shake 'n Bake:

Originally posted by Lafazar:

Here too HDR only stays on with the launch parameter. Also the game looks way too dark with HDR active on my system.

It's definitely darker in the dark areas than SDR but it's more contrasty (the lighter parts are also brighter). The brightness control does not appear to work in HDR and only changes the brightness of the menu overlay but not in game graphics.

Oh yeah, you're right. It's true that the bright areas are even brighter. But In my case I definitively lose contrast in the dark areas and the light areas. I can see far less of the texture detail in both cases, it seems crushed and feels like the dynamic range was expanded beyond the capability of my display.

[antych]

The HDR toggle has been removed in the last update, I guess it's not ready yet.

[MrDowntempo]

Originally posted by antych:

The HDR toggle has been removed in the last update, I guess it's not ready yet.

Ah, that explains why I couldn't find it

[Unmutual]

Sorry about that, we didn't want to give all of you a half-baked feature that didn't work properly; it was experimental and admittedly untested. We're going to look into reimplementing HDR sometime in the future.

[King Whiffer]

I have faith you can do it right. Looking forward to hopefully having HDR in this amazing game!

[xenophire]

Ah crap. I was having fun with HDR, even if it wasn't perfect. Was sad to see it removed today.

[InnerSuperNova-HeartSoulEssence]

Hope to see this work correctly with a button ingame without having to go into windows.