HDR incredibly washed out when enabled

[LemonSixty]

I've been trying to get my head around this for hours now but I'm not getting anywhere.

When I enable HDR, the whole game is really washed out and flat-looking. I can adjust the HDR calibration in game from the default which helps a little bit but is nowhere near as vibrant as I expect.

The weird thing is that when I played on launch, it was fine. In fact, I had the issue with the map being way too dark to actually see anything, which isn't happening any more.

I've played with the screen settings in Nvidia Control Panel, the Windows HDR brightness slider, I've tried it in fullscreen and windowed... nothing seems to be working. And as far as I can tell, HDR seems to be working in every other game.

If anyone has any ideas on what I can do next, that would be amazing.

I'm on a GTX 1080ti and a Samsung Q9FN TV

[Sailindawg]

Same issue. I have RTX 2080Ti and a LG 34G850. I was disappointed when I bought this monitor 3 weeks a go and HDR looked very washed. Latest game ready drivers from nvidia, 452.06 fixed the issue. Eternal looks gloriously eye popping now! Very pleased.

[Sailindawg]

EDIT: I'M REALLY STARTING TO HATE ON THIS GAME. THE WASHED OUT LOOK IS BACK WITH HDR. I'M GOING TO RELOAD THE DRIVERS. I'M STUCK ON TARUS NABA AT THE GORE NEST CHALLENGE AND PRETTY FRUSTRATED. THE GAME'S GRIND AND THE PROBLEMS WITH HDR JUST ADD THE "WHY AM I PLAYING THIS GAME ." iT REALLY LOOKED GOOD WHEN HDR IS WORKING PROPERLY.

[🅱🅾🆁🅶]

Thats weird. Kind of hard to pinpoint as well exactly what's causing HDR to act up. I guess my first option would be to see if Windows 10 is even recognizing your monitor as HDR ready.

[FireGryph]

Ive generally had the same issue with my setup on a 5700xt. I had success when I disabled my secondary monitor, but thats a bit of a poor solution. And it wasnt guaranteed to work, sometimes it did, sometimes not.
Same thing happens in windows though. Its harder to tell in windows alone, but turning on HDR just in windows makes things look a bit faded or washed out.
From what I understand, HDR in windows is just a mess overall.

[🅱🅾🆁🅶]

FireGryph eredeti hozzászólása:

Ive generally had the same issue with my setup on a 5700xt. I had success when I disabled my secondary monitor, but thats a bit of a poor solution. And it wasnt guaranteed to work, sometimes it did, sometimes not.
Same thing happens in windows though. Its harder to tell in windows alone, but turning on HDR just in windows makes things look a bit faded or washed out.
From what I understand, HDR in windows is just a mess overall.

HDR in general has been a mess in PC configurations entirely. Its really specific the crap you have to do to get Windows to recognize your setup as HDR ready. Drivers definitely play a big role in this. And yes having dual monitor completely disables HDR in PC setups which doesn't make sense to me , specially if both monitors are HDR capable..

You can even plug in a full HDR TV and install all the specific drivers and Windows will still not see it as HDR ready most of the time. Just ridiculous.

And if you do get HDR to work, good luck getting it to look like proper HDR you see in high end TV's. When I play 4k HDR movies on my computer I have a really hard time configuring it to look good with any of the top media players out there. I usually just end up saying F * it and transferring the file to my PS4 pro to play it which handles HDR like a champ.

[Peh]

Sailindawg eredeti hozzászólása:

Same issue. I have RTX 2080Ti and a LG 34G850. I was disappointed when I bought this monitor 3 weeks a go and HDR looked very washed. Latest game ready drivers from nvidia, 452.06 fixed the issue. Eternal looks gloriously eye popping now! Very pleased.

HDR in this game looks pretty good. I suppose the issue is more on your end.
The LG 34G850 monitor is what people consider a HDaRen't monitor. The peak brightness output is at 400 nits on this one. HDR10 usually starts at 1000 nits for LCD monitors.

[Peh]

Doug Dimmadome eredeti hozzászólása:

I've been trying to get my head around this for hours now but I'm not getting anywhere.

When I enable HDR, the whole game is really washed out and flat-looking. I can adjust the HDR calibration in game from the default which helps a little bit but is nowhere near as vibrant as I expect.

The weird thing is that when I played on launch, it was fine. In fact, I had the issue with the map being way too dark to actually see anything, which isn't happening any more.

I've played with the screen settings in Nvidia Control Panel, the Windows HDR brightness slider, I've tried it in fullscreen and windowed... nothing seems to be working. And as far as I can tell, HDR seems to be working in every other game.

If anyone has any ideas on what I can do next, that would be amazing.

I'm on a GTX 1080ti and a Samsung Q9FN TV

This sounds more like that your TV doesn't recognise the HDR. Does a small pop up appear when you start the game? It should be something like "HDR Content being displayed".

[K3Pickering]

have you enabled hdr in your monitor settings? im not talking about windows settings like use the buttons on the back of your monitor and turn it on because i had the exact same problem lol

[LemonSixty]

Peh eredeti hozzászólása:

This sounds more like that your TV doesn't recognise the HDR. Does a small pop up appear when you start the game? It should be something like "HDR Content being displayed".

HDR is definitely working on the TV's end. It lists the detected signal as HDR, and it works absolutely fine on all of the other games I've tried that support it, like Forza Horizon 4 and Shadow of War.

And to answer other comments above, it's the only monitor connected to my PC. I've tried reinstalling the drivers from scratch already, but I'm giving it another shot today

[MrEWhite]

HDR is working fine on my LG CX 55. Beautiful and vibrant.

[Peh]

Doug Dimmadome eredeti hozzászólása:

Peh eredeti hozzászólása:

This sounds more like that your TV doesn't recognise the HDR. Does a small pop up appear when you start the game? It should be something like "HDR Content being displayed".

HDR is definitely working on the TV's end. It lists the detected signal as HDR, and it works absolutely fine on all of the other games I've tried that support it, like Forza Horizon 4 and Shadow of War.

And to answer other comments above, it's the only monitor connected to my PC. I've tried reinstalling the drivers from scratch already, but I'm giving it another shot today

But does the popup show up when playing Doom Eternal?

[LemonSixty]

Peh eredeti hozzászólása:

But does the popup show up when playing Doom Eternal?

Yep, it does. It turns it on in Windows when it is enabled, the TV lists the input as HDR and if I launch a second HDR compatible game, then that will work.