Yeah I have exactly the same problem. I have no idea what to set my C6 to without calibration pictures.
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Yeah I have exactly the same problem. I have no idea what to set my C6 to without calibration pictures.
I"m on a Q9FN and using:
Brightness - 10
Sharpening - 2
Contrast - 15
HDR Peak - 1300
HDR UI - 400
Basically, I moved HDR up to the point where the blooming starting clipping cloud detail and backed if off slightly. And then I punched up contrast one because I thought the game looked a little flat in the beta.
You're right. Now that you mention it, in my head I had it initially ticked down to 14.
Maybe I'm crazy, but forced YCPBR 422, 12bit looks completely broken in both Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 7.
In RE7 it looks obscenely dark. I changed my TV settings for color space from Limited to High and saw that there was actually a ton of color information getting crushed in limited mode. So RE7 is in HDR, with those forced settings above, but still outputting colors at 0-255.
It's strange that both RE2 (Washed out) and RE7 (Too dark) look messed up in different ways. The absolute strangest part is that with forced settings above, in Hitman 2 it looks absolutely excellent.
LG C6, pre-HDR Game Mode nerf patch.
In RE7 it looks obscenely dark. I changed my TV settings for color space from Limited to High and saw that there was actually a ton of color information getting crushed in limited mode. So RE7 is in HDR, with those forced settings above, but still outputting colors at 0-255.
It's strange that both RE2 (Washed out) and RE7 (Too dark) look messed up in different ways. The absolute strangest part is that with forced settings above, in Hitman 2 it looks absolutely excellent.
LG C6, pre-HDR Game Mode nerf patch.
Curious about this.
Are there any game demos on steam that have hdr?
Resident Evil 7 supports hdr, and there is a demo on steam. I am not sure if the demo uses HDR as well, though.
I just read in the Sekiro OT that it supports HDR. Hopefully the PC version does, too?
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For Division 2 settings after much tweaking I settled on:
Brightness: 5
Sharpening: 2
Contrast: 17
HDR Peak Brightness: 1300 (this corresponds to my tv peak brightness)
UI elements: 300
This may be a little too soft for some but I dislike the noisiness of artificially sharpened image.
Brightness: 5
Sharpening: 2
Contrast: 17
HDR Peak Brightness: 1300 (this corresponds to my tv peak brightness)
UI elements: 300
This may be a little too soft for some but I dislike the noisiness of artificially sharpened image.
Thanks for sharing. I'll try those.
What platform are you playing on? And what TV/monitor are you using with?
Are you planning to check out Sekiro, EvilBoris ? The feedback in the performance thread is not very exciting, so far...
Edit: I have just played the tutorial mission on PC. HDR needs to be activated by Alt+Tab. Not sure about HDR settings though. You can adjust brightness, Peak brightness and saturation. To me, default looks a bit washed out and I turned brightness down to 3, set Peak to 1400 (Sony XE93).
Edit: I don't know. I switched into SDR mode and it looks better to me. More vibrant and even the highlights are brighter. Has anybody tried Sekiro HDR?
Edit: I have just played the tutorial mission on PC. HDR needs to be activated by Alt+Tab. Not sure about HDR settings though. You can adjust brightness, Peak brightness and saturation. To me, default looks a bit washed out and I turned brightness down to 3, set Peak to 1400 (Sony XE93).
Edit: I don't know. I switched into SDR mode and it looks better to me. More vibrant and even the highlights are brighter. Has anybody tried Sekiro HDR?
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Where do you adjust HDR brightness settings? I don't see any options for brightness, peak brightness, and saturation.
It's called "Picture Quality Adjustment" in the "Sound and Display" menu.
got it, guess I didn't actually read the error message I got when clicking that options from the title screen
The peak brightness slider in Sekiro does nothing on my end for the picture. However, I do prefer the HDR mode with saturation turned up a bit as the blacks seem darker. Then again, only an hour or so in.
HDR is broken in this game just like it is in Red Dead 2 and Spider-man but its the good kind of broken because it can be corrected (unlike games like Monster hunter world/PUBG/DMC5 where disabling HDR entirely is the best option). This is how I got Sekiro looking incredible on my LG 65 C7 OLED TV, but it should work for other setups too:
-Make sure HDR is enabled
-Go to Display/Brightness options
-Turn "Luminance" to 2000
-Turn "Brightness" to 8
-***most important part***On Your Television display settings not game itself*** Bump "Color" setting on TV to 100
Check out how much more vibrant the grass is, the flaming torches are, and scratch marking on the cliff edges.
Also, feel free to tweak. The brightness might be better on 7 for you, or the Color setting on TV might look better around 85-90 for you. But I definitely feel these tweaks make the HDR much, MUCH better and elevate the game's presentation to that next level.
Let me know what you guys think.
Try boosting the in game brightness and your TV's color setting a bit and see if it looks better. It helped me achieve a stunning picture.
Any particular reason you're not just changing the saturation slider in game?
I tried it right away and it made the picture look green and ugly. Didn't seem to be implemented correctly
Yeah, getting RDR2 vibes from Sekiro's HDR. Some of the bright highlights look impressive but everything else feels washed out. I'll be playing in SDR until some further analysis can offer some better recommendations.
Ghost Recon Wildlands free trial has HDR. Probably only available on Uplay though.
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I've been messing around with it and have currently put my settings to 2000 peak brightness, and 8 for brightness and 8 for saturation. The HDR is definitely funky, but I prefer the picture in HDR on my set with those settings to the SDR picture. But its hard because I'm just picking spots in early levels and comparing the two, so I don't really know what's happening behind the scenes as opposed to what I prefer in front of me.
I think I figured out Sekiro's HDR for my setup (LG B8 connected to PC 1080ti). First I needed to set my TV input mode to "PC". In the Nvidia control panel I set output color format to RGB, color depth to 8 bit, output range to full, resolution to 4k 60hz. I tried every combination of format/range/depth and the key thing seems to be if I don't set the range to full, all the other combinations would end up with the game looking more washed out in HDR mode than the regular SDR mode. I tried shit for like an hour and a half, every combination of settings, all sorts of alt tabbing, and this is the best it's looked.
Based on what I've seen, I can see why some people are saying it looks better in SDR mode, because they are situations where it was that way for me as well.
Based on what I've seen, I can see why some people are saying it looks better in SDR mode, because they are situations where it was that way for me as well.
Same here on ps4. Nits 500-2000 show no difference so I just left it at 1000.
Maxed out brightness as hdr game mode due to lg b7 tone mapping making it "dim"
What is saturation actually doing? Is that like adjusting color setting in your tv settings?
Maxed out brightness as hdr game mode due to lg b7 tone mapping making it "dim"
What is saturation actually doing? Is that like adjusting color setting in your tv settings?
Seems like it, things start to look really weird the further you go away from 5.
I left brightness at 5, supposedly pc actually feeds tvs a 1000 nit value, so it's sort of like having a linker built in. I would love to get my hands on the console version to compare.
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I've been digging deep.
PC HDR is such a pain in the ass. This one is misbehaving constantly, booting in HDR, but not triggering HDR to the TV unless I alt yah. Sometimes boost the saturation really high and other times not .
I have learned that the game uses the old Reinhard tonemapping operator, which isn't really reccomended for HDR displays, this might explain why it looks a little off.
PC HDR is such a pain in the ass. This one is misbehaving constantly, booting in HDR, but not triggering HDR to the TV unless I alt yah. Sometimes boost the saturation really high and other times not .
I have learned that the game uses the old Reinhard tonemapping operator, which isn't really reccomended for HDR displays, this might explain why it looks a little off.
Looking forward to your results. I'm only noticing a difference in the sun and fire/scultors idol when toggling hdr on and off.
I have tried changing it to RGB full 8 bit but I can't say I see much of a difference, if at all. I do not have a PC mode, on my TV, though. Thanks for sharing anyway.
As of now I will stick to SDR mode. Still hoping for solutions/looking for suggestions to fix HDR ;)
I can see a difference going from 500 to 1000 (XE93) where it seems to max out for me but it still doesn't seem very bright compared to peak brightness in AC, for example.
Late reply from my part, but thanks guys! This really made a big difference!
I am luving The Division 2's HDR,with much colors and some effects being almost blinding bright with my 1080 ti/Z9D.
Hi all new memeber here, I am looking at some good settings to set my hdr in the division 2 currently have an Xbox one x running on a Samsung q8f. Been messing with the brightness and contrast constantly.
Usually most my games are set up nice and quickly and looks spot on usually but I can help but feel it's a bit odd.
Usually most my games are set up nice and quickly and looks spot on usually but I can help but feel it's a bit odd.
How does one find out the typical peak brightness of a TV? I picked up a Vizio P65-F1 and I'm not sure what to set the peak brightness to in a game like Division 2 without any reference image.
What I recommend is looking outside a door from inside a building (while it is sunny) and mess with the slider while looking at the highlight. You should be able to easily find out what your set tonemaps to as you'll eventually notice the slider no longer changing anything. Make sure you start from all the way to the left of the slider!
Same here. It's like they slapped the SDR image as is into the HDR range then only chose the sun and torches to make use of the extra brightness. If you have the sun in view and push the slider from 500 to 2000, the tiny circle that represents the sun is the only thing that will change in brightness.
LG OLED users on pc, what are your hdr settings for sekiro so far? Seems tricky to get the brightness/ saturation right :/
I know there is a bug and once you launch the game you have to alt tab out and back in for HDR to enable correctly.
I'm mostly using default settings I think the peak brightness is at max.
If people know better settings would love to know.
Played a bit more and settled with brightness at 3, max luminance and saturation at 7, looks pretty good and I'm happy with it.
Folks might scoff at this but I have my settings currently at 10 brightness, 8 saturation and 1000 peak brightness in Sekiro.
It's much more colorful but not in a bad way. I prefer the look tbh, and usually I hate having popping color.
It's much more colorful but not in a bad way. I prefer the look tbh, and usually I hate having popping color.
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