How To Enable HDR Support

This guide will show you how to enable HDR support, needless to say you need a HDR supported monitor

Warning - Using any of the commands will disable Steam achievements

You can download this mod to enable Steam & Game Pass Achievements again[www.nexusmods.com]

Commands Method - Enabling HDR & Configurations

Enabling HDR

• Launch the command menu (tilde button on your keyboard) for QWERTY keyboards this key is above the TAB button
  
• Type Altar.GraphicsOptions.HDR 1 then hit enter to enable HDR
  
• Type Altar.GraphicsOptions.HDRWhitePoint 1000
  

  Replace "1000" with the peak nits of your monitor, for example if you're on HDR 400 then this would be 400, HDR 10 would be 1000 etc

Configuration Preferences

The following configurations do NOT save after a restart and they're based on your preferences, if you want these configurations to save then check out the System Files Method below

• r.HDR.UI.Luminance 100
  

  This will change the brightness of your interface, you can change this from 100 to your maximum peak nits of your monitor

• r.HDR.Display.MidLuminance 20
  

  This will change the grey levels, increasing the number will make your game brighter

System Files Method - Enabling HDR & Configurations

The following method will permanently save your configurations upon rebooting the game

Enabling HDR

• Launch the GameUserSettings.ini file
  

  %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\Config\Windows\GameUserSettings.ini

• Change bUseHDRDisplayOutput to True
  

  bUseHDRDisplayOutput=True

• Change HDRDisplayOutputNits to your peak nits of your monitor
  

  HDRDisplayOutputNits=1000

• Save the file

Configuration Preferences

• Launch the Engine.ini file
  

  %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\Config\Windows\Engine.ini

• Add the following code at the bottom of the file
  

  [SystemSettings]
  r.HDR.UI.Luminance=100
  r.HDR.Display.MidLuminance=20

  Change the values of the numbers to your preferences

  UI Luminance - Changes the brightness of your interface, you can change this from 100 to your maximum peak nits of your monitor

  Mid Luminance - Changes the grey levels, increasing the number will make your game brighter

• Save the file

Example of the files and its configurations

Comparisons

HDR OFF


HDR ON


HDR OFF


HDR ON


HDR OFF


HDR ON

Default Configurations

These are the values of the default configurations in case you wanted to reset back to default

• Altar.GraphicsOptions.HDR 0
  
• Altar.GraphicsOptions.HDRWhitePoint 1000
  
• r.HDR.UI.Luminance 300
  
• r.HDR.Display.MidLuminance 18

Alternative HDR Options

Nvidia RTX HDR

You will need an Nvidia RTX card

While Nvidia RTX HDR is impressive, I personally don't recommend it if you also use the other RTX features such as DLSS and Frame Generation due to performance and input latency issues that RTX HDR causes

If you don't use other RTX features and want a simple solution for multiple games to support HDR then Nvidia RTX HDR is a great option for you

Quick tutorial on enabling Nvidia RTX

• Download Nvidia App (not Nvidia GeForce Experience)[www.nvidia.com]
  
• Go to Nvidia App > Graphics > Global Settings > RTX HDR > set to ON
  
• Go to Nvidia App > Settings > Nvidia Overlay > set to ON
  
• Go to Nvidia App > Settings > Game Filters and Photo Mode > set to ON

RenoDX

RenoDX focuses on creating the most closest native HDR experience with minimal performance hit

Download Latest RenoDX here[github.com]

[DeVout Numelran]

fixed the issue. there were two "My documents" The one the game generated in was in This PC\Documents the real one with all the Ini files was under C:Users\Username\Documents Which is odd because oblivion remastered is the ONLY game in the latter.

[DeVout Numelran]

Something happened to my game. Oblivion remastered no longer reads the engine.ini file to adjust HDR and turn it on. and even enabling it through console commands seems to have no effect what so ever.

I have no idea what to do.

I verified file integrity, reinstalled the engine files, even reinstalled the game and all my mods. but its just utterly broken now.

[Deefje]

Since there's people that know about HDR in this thread. I always get this bright film over my screen when using HDR. Even though it's at least properly calibrated Windows HDR calibration.

It's better when I turn down brightness through AMD color management.

any suggestion?

[BillyBishkon]

wow makes a huge difference compared to rtx hdr! thank you.
for my monitor i found these look best:
r.HDR.UI.Luminance=300
r.HDR.Display.MidLuminance=14

[hilmanator]

Thanks @Gem

[Gem]

@hilmanator leave the brightness to default, HDR shouldn't be using the brightness values of SDR anyway.

Leave r.HDR.Display.MinLuminanceLog10 to default (-4)

[hilmanator]

The other question I have is, do I set up the in game brightness slider prior to taking these steps?

[hilmanator]

Should I use r.HDR.Display.MinLuminanceLog10? And where do I put it if I do? Engine or GameUserSettings?

[Go Fish]

@Aretaik iirc HDR and Stramlined do not like each other. That's extra render passes.

[Go Fish]

Spotted a typo - %USERPRIFLE% shoud be %USERPROFILE%