What are the best HDR settings?

[Racists]

I have an LG C7 OLED TV

[Grimzy]

Originally posted by Racists:

I have an LG C7 OLED TV

Considering HDR is more or less screen specific, unless someone has the exact same monitor as you, things suggested may not work or look good for you.
you are better off doing 2 things:

1. Using the HDR Calibrator from the microsoft store to calibrate the color profile for your screen
2. Play with the sliders in game and determine which looks best for you.

[FO]

Originally posted by iamcll:

try going white point 6000
black point 0
brightness leave at 25 and also leave UI at 1.0

What i've noticed is the white point can be maxed out without any clipping or issues

That is probably because you have “Dynamic Tone mapping” enabled on your display (or something similar). Your display interferes with the dynamic settings in your game.

From what I’ve gathered with many modern games you want to disable this feature (choose HGIG if that is one of the options on your display) and calibrate from there. The display might appear darker at first, but that is probably because everything you were seeing was raised/lowered in brightness all the time, not necessarily as intended by the creators of your game.

[iamcll]

Originally posted by Scoobyroo:

Originally posted by iamcll:

try going white point 6000
black point 0
brightness leave at 25 and also leave UI at 1.0

What i've noticed is the white point can be maxed out without any clipping or issues

This is the worst advice ever... do not do this! lololol.

OP, I believe your panel max's out at 690 nits... so around 700 should be good for White Point.

Normally that would be awful, However try it lmao, 6000 barely changes from 600 like actually, It's like how HZD is mastered for 10k and will output 10k but doesn't have issues on monitors that have far lower nits

[iamcll]

Originally posted by FO:

Originally posted by iamcll:

try going white point 6000
black point 0
brightness leave at 25 and also leave UI at 1.0

What i've noticed is the white point can be maxed out without any clipping or issues

That is probably because you have “Dynamic Tone mapping” enabled on your display (or something similar). Your display interferes with the dynamic settings in your game.

From what I’ve gathered with many modern games you want to disable this feature (choose HGIG if that is one of the options on your display) and calibrate from there. The display might appear darker at first, but that is probably because everything you were seeing was raised/lowered in brightness all the time, not necessarily as intended by the creators of your game.

Nope i have not got any dynamic tone mapping on this monitor, It's one of the older ones that doesn't have HGIG or Dynamic tone mapping.

[rservello]

Originally posted by Thane_Ragnar:

The HDR Settings in this game are On/Off ... whatever works for you.

That's not true, you can calibrate just like every HDR game.

[/<sio]

Originally posted by Scoobyroo:

Originally posted by iamcll:

try going white point 6000
black point 0
brightness leave at 25 and also leave UI at 1.0

What i've noticed is the white point can be maxed out without any clipping or issues

This is the worst advice ever... do not do this! lololol.

OP, I believe your panel max's out at 690 nits... so around 700 should be good for White Point.

If you have an LG OLED its actually a good advice. Your TV will tonemap the content automatically to your TVs capabilities.

Ever heard of the term "METADATA"? If you watch an HDR-movie, the video file contains METADATA to tell the TV how bright the Movie gets. Some movies are mastered to 1000 nits, some to 4000 nits. Games can be mastered up to 10000 nits. And Games use METADATA as well. So the Game will tell your TV which Values it uses and your TV will tonemap the content to lets say 750 nits. Each TV will tonemap differently. And it will tonemap differently for 1000nits- or 4000nits content.

I tested Hogwarts Legacy on my LG C8. And the game looks better with Peak-White set to 6000 . No clipping and color purity is actually better than if you set it to 700 or 750 nits.