HDR issues

[duderino]

I seem to have the same washed out look other people are having with HDR enabled. But for me it's not just this game. I have this in FH4, AC Origins and Battlefront 2. I think it has something to do with the windows 10 HDR toggle. When I turn it on it washes out the colors, so I always have it off. But when I start up a game with an ingame HDR option on, it turns itself on automaticly every time (I found this out by alt-tabbing out of the game and checking the display settings since most of the time it turns itself off again when leaving the game).

The only way the HDR works as it should is by setting the Nvidia colors to YCbCr422 (8 bit). With that setting the colors are good AND when I alt-tab out of the game the HDR option in Windows 10 remains disabled. Any other setting enables HDR in Windows automaticly. This can't be a coincidence. The problem is that the YCbCr422 setting doesn't work on Battlefront 2 and Forza Horizon 4.

Is there a way to stop Windows 10 to automaticly enable HDR in display settings (beside the YCbCr422 8bit option)????

[Dr. Peppermill]

Weird ... I play Odyssey in SDR (I didn't like HDR in this game) and HDR is never activated automatically. Color in NV CPL is "Auto", HDR toggle in Windows is OFF. I used HDR initially, toggling the Windows switch before playing, and it worked as expected, wasn't washed out but I still didn't liked it.

Some games don't have good HDR, I liked only Mass Effect Andromeda, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy XV on PC.

Red Dead Redemption 2 (I play it on XOne X) has the crappiest implementation so far, it's fake HDR.

[podizzle3000]

i think the only thing HDR is good for on PC is watching HDR movies... which you really dont need a PC for but it makes it convienient. HDR on PC just sucks for games. sad but true.

[Dr. Peppermill]

I went back to HDR. I don't know what exactly they did about it in 1.1.0 / 1.1.1 but now it looks better to me ... or it's just my imagination, not sure. Release notes say "[PC] Improved HDR functionality on PC". This time I calibrated HDR properly by spending enough time to compare different settings and it looks better than SDR for sure.
NV CPL colors are set to Auto and I'm turning the Windows switch ON before playing, TV is Samsung Q7FN.

[helldweller]

Have you upgraded to Win 10 1809 yet? It drastically improves HDR support. It's now possible to turn it on and leave it on wihout washing out SDR content (you just have to adjust a secondary slider). Also, both AC Origins and Odyssey have issues with HDR when RTSS (Afterburner overlay) is running.

[Dr. Peppermill]

Originally posted by helldweller:

Have you upgraded to Win 10 1809 yet? It drastically improves HDR support. It's now possible to turn it on and leave it on wihout washing out SDR content (you just have to adjust a secondary slider).

I agree that Desktop in HDR is better now, close to SDR but still a little bit dim (slider on Max).
I'm a little bit sceptical how SDR games would look when HDR is ON, that's why I don't want to keep it ON permanently.

[harentius]

I have Nvidia 2080 and Sony xf90 hdr TV and HDR option unavailable in game at all (grayed out) (I have Windows 10 with latest updates and turned on HDR)

[wim1234]

in the gam ethere are settings for screen luminosity under hdr.
now that makes a lot of difference, i got a new tele with hdr and now it looks fantastic, after
setting the lumunopsity to 2000..this value differs from screen to screen.

[Dionysus 🐭]

Same issue, HDR is extremely washed out.

[UbiCosmos]

Hello,

Please feel free to reach out to our Support Team[support.ubi.com] for technical assistance.

[Dionysus 🐭]

Originally posted by UbiCosmos:

Hello,

Please feel free to reach out to our Support Team[support.ubi.com] for technical assistance.

I already have, and have tried for nearly 3 months to get support to help. They just repeat generic lines (like reinstall, close RTSS/Afterburner, verify game files) even though i have already said I have done all of those.

[Merlin7]

The only solutions that works for odyssey-origins Is 1) special k and 2) dxvk .
About 1) a lot of tutorials are goanna help you just google it . about 2 . dxvk are change directx to vulkan actually after download copy the x64 files inside the game folder close msi afterburner * its depends from the current gpu driver if msi is enable it or not* and done just play . give time to ssd for shader creation reduce luminance from game option and saturation from monitor-tv until is perfect to you .

[RGBPlays]

the hdr is not good, Hogwarts Legacy and TLOU pt 1 have excellent HDR but this one is washed out without the proper brightest and darkest scenes, standard still looks great here though.