Game too dark with HDR

[Adeptus Lebowski]

It looks far better with HDR but when not in direct sunlight in the jungle it's very hard to see things. I've adjusted to HDR slider and it makes no difference whatever i do.

[charly4711]

I don’t exactly remember off the top of my head, but wasn’t there a separate gamma setting? Otherwise can you up the brightness of your monitor ?
In CP 2077 there are separate settings for max brightness of your display and tone midpoint , but I don’t remember seeing them in SoTR.

[Johan Erickson]

Windows HDR is just broken, mate. I've tried it across different games. Even HDR videos look better on my smart TV's low-end mobile CPU. You could try Geforce Experience and tinker with the gamma/contrast/brightness settings but the whole point of HDR is kinda lost when you need to manually sit and tweak stuff.

[DessIntress]

Originally posted by Johan Erickson:

Windows HDR is just broken, mate. I've tried it across different games. Even HDR videos look better on my smart TV's low-end mobile CPU. You could try Geforce Experience and tinker with the gamma/contrast/brightness settings but the whole point of HDR is kinda lost when you need to manually sit and tweak stuff.

Nothing is broken with windows hdr....
Set all of your software edits to the default settings, then customize your hardware (the screen) properly. With serious test images, not by your opinion or compressed video steams. Companies who offer serious test images also offer some free basic test images for hdr and non-hdr.

You will now say that it is already perfect, you know what you are doing etc etc. But do that with the serious test images. You will be amazed how much better the picture can look.


tl;dr: If the basis is set completely incorrectly, then only crap can come out of it.
And btw: Incidentally, HDR and SRD are so to say only image signals. The CPU of your TV has, just like your PC, not much more to work compared with a SDR signal. As I said, your screen/picture is just set wrong. And if you are using a TV for your PC. Remember that you need to setup the picture for each input channel.

[Adeptus Lebowski]

Originally posted by DessIntress:

Originally posted by Johan Erickson:

Windows HDR is just broken, mate. I've tried it across different games. Even HDR videos look better on my smart TV's low-end mobile CPU. You could try Geforce Experience and tinker with the gamma/contrast/brightness settings but the whole point of HDR is kinda lost when you need to manually sit and tweak stuff.

Nothing is broken with windows hdr....
Set all of your software edits to the default settings, then customize your hardware (the screen) properly. With serious test images, not by your opinion or compressed video steams. Companies who offer serious test images also offer some free basic test images for hdr and non-hdr.

You will now say that it is already perfect, you know what you are doing etc etc. But do that with the serious test images. You will be amazed how much better the picture can look.


tl;dr: If the basis is set completely incorrectly, then only crap can come out of it.
And btw: Incidentally, HDR and SRD are so to say only image signals. The CPU of your TV has, just like your PC, not much more to work compared with a SDR signal. As I said, your screen/picture is just set wrong. And if you are using a TV for your PC. Remember that you need to setup the picture for each input channel.

I downloaded the acer screen colour profile app but it doesn't recognise my acer predator x34 GS lol. How to i do a proper screen test?