I can second Sea of Thieves looking amazing in hdr. One of my first hdr experiences and to date one of the best i've had.
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Games with terrible HDR implementation?
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I can second Sea of Thieves looking amazing in hdr. One of my first hdr experiences and to date one of the best i've had.
FH4? Can't agree there. It's one of the best HDR implementations as noted by DF if I recall correctly. But it looks amazing to my eyes.
It's Recore, far away worst I've ever seen. I imagine the game not being that popular has lead to it not being mentioned that much. But, if you've played post HDR update, it's dreadful.
Would definitely be interested.
For me, Nessus and Io look particularly like a blotchy mess, and I feel like I have to choose between being able to see in pitch-black caves or being able to see my HUD or enemies against the white sky.
Wouldn't say gorgeous but it looks good.
I thought WW2 looked amazing too.... people here saying it's bad lol
TCL P607 and I used Rtings' recommendations
https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/tcl/p-series-2017-p607
Are you playing FH4 on pc or xbox?
Cause FH4 has the best HDR i've seen so far.
That Zoo Tycoon game that has X support (it's on game pass) has garbage HDR support. No settings to adjust, barely anything above 100 nits other than the sky, which you almost never see.
I disagree.
Switch your color profile in game.
It looks FANTASTIC on my samsung ks8000
Same thing happened for me, the HDR has looked fantastic in every other game - Forza Horizon 4, Spider Man, GoW, BLOPS 4, etc but Shadow of the Tomb Raider looked way too dark and murky. I saw some HDR light map analysis of the game and it looked fine in terms of light sources and stuff but for some reason on my LG OLED TV the game just felt too dark in too many spots.
I wonder if games that go for a night/dark setting just don't work well on the LG OLED, because all the "bright" games worked beautifully. Might be a TV setting thing too, I think I tuned it right for movies/games but who knows.
Ever check out Deus Ex? Game seemed off the one time I looked at it, although that was on a lesser set than what I have now.
Yeah, that was really broken. I wrote a post about it, as long as you don't set the HDR brightness below 35%.
Other than that , it's ok
https://www.resetera.com/threads/hdr-games-analysed.23587/
I don't think Witcher 3 does HDR at all. Does it?
God of War's is amazing the vast majority of the time, but the game crushes blacks pretty bad.
Glad everyone loved Spider-Man. That was my first experience with HDR, and it was eye-opening.
In Theory it shouldn't look any worse than the SDR does, possiby even slightly better as you aren't limited to limited RGB ranges and may still be able to create a little be of an "Extended Dynamic Range" than a non-HDR display would.
Even people with fantastic TVs have problems for various different reasons.
Spiderman looks amzing, but it has a very restrained HDR output. I need to do some more research into that one , as there is still a little bit more to the story I think.
The shadow end curves adjustment that the game asks you to adjust is totally broken. Any lower than halfway down moves the blackpoint to the point where it's removing data altogether.
On the subject of washed out images: Check your TV model and see if it has something called 'Local Dimming' or 'Local Contrast'
It is setting that will enable your sets backlight to darken or brighten areas of the screen, according to how many zones it can adjust.
https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/picture-quality/local-dimming
It is such an amazing upgrade, coming from a TV without the feature. Dark scenes in anything are completely transformed in a way that you will need to see to believe. Absolutely essential for HDR!
Edit: You can even see a big difference in this off screen video I recorded
Even better looking in person!
It is setting that will enable your sets backlight to darken or brighten areas of the screen, according to how many zones it can adjust.
https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/picture-quality/local-dimming
It is such an amazing upgrade, coming from a TV without the feature. Dark scenes in anything are completely transformed in a way that you will need to see to believe. Absolutely essential for HDR!
Edit: You can even see a big difference in this off screen video I recorded
Even better looking in person!
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I got out of PC gaming this year due to that issue. I play on a Sony X900 and Vizio P65 and it was a nightmare getting my PC (GTX 1080 TI) to output HDR without messing something up.
Aye thats my only fault with PC, it's so far behind with HDR it's a joke.
I'm surprised at folks saying Forza Horizon 3. It's one of the best looking HDR games I've seen. I have a hard time playing it on my non-HDR TVs now.
interesting, Destiny 2 has looked great for me on my HDR Monitor but maybe it's because my monitor is like barely bright enough to hit the HDR classification? I had a hell of a time with God of War, in some places it would look great but in others it would either be blown out or way too dark. almost like i'd need to reset the HDR setting for different locations in the game.
I'm actually pretty surprised that it doesn't look good on a OLED, my tv's a piece of shit in comparison (Sony x800d) so that makes sense but I've only heard nothing but good things with OLED & HDR.
Seeing games with legit great HDR being mentioned here (Sea of Thieves, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Gran Turismo) makes me think some people just don't like how HDR looks.
Ok, that's not just me then. I thought my TV was either busted or I had really bad HDR settings. All the glow effects on every character go from a nice rich color to a super bright/washed out version of that color. I also get some bad banding/crush on explosion effects during the post game animation sequence for characters like Harley.
Now that you mention it I think it is right at the halfway point that it looks the way it should mostly. A lot of people don't seem realize that you have to ignore the slider/image to actually make it look the way it should though. I'm surprised the developers haven't patched it at the very least so it behaves how it should.
There are a few caves and missions where something has gone a bit wrong. It's almost like they use a negative light to remove light from an area and it doesn't behave correctly in the HDR version of the game .You can't change that from the sliders unfortunately
It's a good example of how game art does need to be built for an HDR output and it might explain why it took several months for the HDR update to come if there were various assets that needed to be updated.
I'm surprised to see many mentions of Witcher 3. Since the update for X I haven't played it much but in which ways does it look worse compared to SDR?
Its your TV, and no that's not my opinion. Its fact
Edit: I'm not saying your tv is bad, I'm saying it's most likely the settings
It doesn't look worse it just doesn't add anything better to the overall presentation. If the HDR patch eliminated the piss filter in Blood & Wine then I'd say it's a really good implementation.
Truthfacts.
In general I find HDR a little overblown personally. It makes the sky in games like Gears 4 and FH4 look great, it really stands out but even in SDR it still looks really damn good too. Shadow of the Tomb Raider can look great in the jungles but in caves, crypts and tombs I prefer the look of SDR. It's a mixed bag in my opinion and not as consistent as I would hope.
Hope it looks great in RDR2. Rockstar's first HDR implementation.
Hope it looks great in RDR2. Rockstar's first HDR implementation.
The game doesn't control the exposure correctly and illuminates many of the daylight scenes above and beyond a normal SDR grade. When you move to other areas of the game it doesn't have this same issue , but it's an issue non the less.
