PLEASE list HDR / Auto-HDR support on the store page or as a sortable attribute in the Library

[Jane's Antichrist Experience]

I don't understand why this isn't a thing. Many games require HDR to be manually toggled before starting the game to work correctly, and there is currently no way to discern if a game has HDR without looking it up on PCGamingWiki.

I know not everybody has HDR, but it has been around for ~6 years, is fairly widely supported, and is a focus of W11. It would be massively helpful to not need to manually google if HDR is supported for each game or have to guess and then restart. I would love to be able to sort my library by HDR, Auto-HDR support. I'm kind of surprised this isn't even a Steam Labs beta feature (or maybe it is?). It doesn't seem like it would be hard to implement either.

>60 fps support and exclusive fullscreen support would also be great but are a bit more of a gray area and aren't usually necessary to know in advance.

[Nx Machina]

All information on a store page is provided by the developer, publisher.

[Jane's Antichrist Experience]

Then maybe Steam should request that they list it? I could be wrong but I've never seen any developer decide to list HDR support on the sidebar along with the other basic attributes, which seems strange for everyone to omit, while they almost always list much more obvious features.

I get that Steam doesn't write the descriptions, but is literally every feature on the sidebar of the store page listed only by the developer and not added by Steam? And there is no form template for developers to submit these features?

There exist lists of confirmed HDR compatible games, so it wouldn't even be difficult to apply retroactively for games already released. And Steam is definitely the party that determines Library collection categories. I can sort my library by "Remote Play Together" support but not HDR support or which drive it's installed on? I've been using Steam for 15 years and I don't even know what Remote Play Together is.

[Nx Machina]

As stated: All information on a store page is provided by the developer, publisher.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store


Library main window > drop down > sort by drive.


Remote Play Together:

https://store.steampowered.com/remoteplay/

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Operation Messiah Prophylactic:

Then maybe Steam should request that they list it? I could be wrong but I've never seen any developer decide to list HDR support on the sidebar along with the other basic attributes, which seems strange for everyone to omit, while they almost always list much more obvious features.

I get that Steam doesn't write the descriptions, but is literally every feature on the sidebar of the store page listed only by the developer and not added by Steam? And there is no form template for developers to submit these features?

Yeah, the information provided by publishers (or developers if they're self-publishing) is dependent on the information fields that Steam lets them fill in the first place.

I don't know what HDR is, so this suggestion probably won't do much for me, but it seems like it'd still be a useful selling point to other people (such as yourself) for publishers/developers to be able to boast about supporting it, so it'd make sense for Steam to add that.

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Ursprünglich geschrieben von Operation Messiah Prophylactic:

There exist lists of confirmed HDR compatible games, so it wouldn't even be difficult to apply retroactively for games already released. And Steam is definitely the party that determines Library collection categories. I can sort my library by "Remote Play Together" support but not HDR support or which drive it's installed on? I've been using Steam for 15 years and I don't even know what Remote Play Together is.

Valve needs to reimplement List View and just add additional choices for columns. It used to be so easy to display all this tons of information about one's games in one giant spreadsheet and you could even easily sort by any of the columns. Just that they should split the old "size on disk" column (which contained both that and drive letter) into "size on disk" and "drive", and then they can add various other attributes such as RPT and HDR (once it's implemented into Steam's backend).

[nullable]

I'm not sure what's special about HDR compared to all the other graphics options. I mean I get that you feel it's super important. But maybe it's just another option and people can take it or leave it without much worry.

[Mailer]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Snakub Plissken:

I'm not sure what's special about HDR compared to all the other graphics options. I mean I get that you feel it's super important. But maybe it's just another option and people can take it or leave it without much worry.

Usually if a game supports HDR that is different from what someone's monitor supports then you might experience that the game is a bit darker than normal. However it's not like this isn't something you could remedy yourself if it actually becomes a problem so I don't see the need to make it a mandatory thing.

Usually games openly state that they support HDR because it's (apparently) a selling point for monitors and games alike.

[Mad Scientist]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Mailer:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Snakub Plissken:

I'm not sure what's special about HDR compared to all the other graphics options. I mean I get that you feel it's super important. But maybe it's just another option and people can take it or leave it without much worry.

Usually if a game supports HDR that is different from what someone's monitor supports then you might experience that the game is a bit darker than normal. However it's not like this isn't something you could remedy yourself if it actually becomes a problem so I don't see the need to make it a mandatory thing.

Usually games openly state that they support HDR because it's (apparently) a selling point for monitors and games alike.

Monitors and GPUs have controls, and HDR isn't that special; Half-Life 2: Lost Coast would like to have a word with people. That's from 2005, I doubt many people, if any at all, would have issues unless they had a really, really old CPU or GPU.

[nullable]

Lost Coast had HDR in the game engine, or it approximated HDR. I think OP is fussing over hardware implementations, IE monitors that support HDR10.

Sort of like how lots of games have good lighting and pretty complex lighting schemes and techniques to approximate real world lighting. And then there's Ray Tracing which actually computes real world lighting in hardware.

And sure games will pimp having nice features, HDR, DLSS, RTX. But at the end of the day they're just graphics options like all the other ones that were new once upon a time and advertised in games. And at some point HDR will be so common that calling it out specifically will seem silly. Like asking, "But does it support Mode 7?"

[Crashed]

Auto HDR is a Windows 11 feature that games do not specifically enable.