PC is another kind of beast to setup compared to console, especially for PC HDR gaming where it's a lot more hit and miss or unnecessarily complicated.
Do you have any settings used for gears 5 from the tech test ready for the game tonight at 9
Go to the hdr analysed thread we are talking about it in there now
Gears 5 hdr on pc is really bright so I had to bump down the brightness to the lowest setting using option 1 settings. Should I switch to option 2 settings in this case? Is the bump in contrast to tackle the elevates black level?
Yes, apparently Gears 5 have slightly elevated black levels by default (probably intentional in order to make darkest details more visible), but Option 1 is based on High Dynamic Contrast that, even calibrated, always tends to slightly crush blacks, therefore it should counter the default Gears 5 contrast already.
HDR Game was improved and not totally fixed, but latest (and definitive) calibration named "Option 1" in the OP looks superb still, and plays great with steady low input lag.
I actually have my OLED light setting to around max under all picture conditions, which isn't recommended due to higher risk of IR/Burn in and Ive had 0 issues with gaming for long sessions.
I'm jealous. I did, and a program I work in all the time caused a permanent uniformity issue. It was just a grey interface too..
I thought grey uniformity was a common isue with OLED TV's? I guess I don't notice it enough to bother me.
No, I mean the program I used often on my PC, which has a grey colored interfaced, caused burn-in on my OLED.
Generally I play an average of 2-3 hours sessions, but it often happened to have 6-7 hours sessions during w/e or playing particularly great games, with no issues... ;)
Yes there's a reference group assembled by Ms and Sony but sadly not every developer seems to take part. Hopefully in some time more games will deliver true hdr and not mess it up. Which we have experienced in some time now. Even worse when some developers are creating their own hdr implementation like Rockstar with rdr2 with poor results.
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Normally setting dynamic contrast to low enables 'Active HDR', but it's not available in game mode. Instead it just enables traditional dynamic contrast, which just raises/lowers black levels and brightness depending on what's on screen, producing a more inaccurate picture. And yes, it is darker. In game mode, LG tone maps everything assuming the max is 4000 nits. So for example if a game doesn't supply any calibration and only ever reaches 1000 nits, it's going to look dim because the TV is tone mapping for a much brighter setting.
High DC is the only way to achieve both low input lag and the closest Luminance + Accuracy in many HDR contents (both games and HDR Blu-Rays) compared to calibrated HDR Technicolor Expert + Active HDR.
TV is 900 nits, but both HDR Game and HDR Technicolor Expert profiles are meant to fully accept up to 4.000 nits contents and "tone map" them at best for it's 900 nits display, helped with Dynamic Tone Mapping and Dynamic Contrast features for best results.
It depends on which Dolby Vision preset you're using.
Would you say DV Game Mode configured the way you have it in the spreadsheet can be more accurate than DV Home Cinema? The last three movies I've watched have all been Dolby Vision and it's starting to bother me how dim they can appear. I'm not expecting my HDR movies to look like rainbow unicorn puke, but there's times where DV films look uncomfortably close to SD and it's really starting to annoy me.
I use Dolby Vision Cinema Home or Standard because these look like the brightest for me. But they are still a little bit darker than HDR with Dynamic contrast low. Has to be the different mastering.
DV Game setup as DV Cinema is much more accurate compared to DV Home Cinema.
Updated one final time after 3 hours testing.
Yes, on 2018 models I recommend using Game Console input + HDR Game preset with same settings as calibrated HDR Technicolor Expert, then enabling Dynamic Tone Mapping for best results.
Might be something on my end then, because as soon as I enter HDR game mode with Dynamic Contract set to High, the image looks incredibly different to the other HDR presents in WebOs, etc.
No worries, if you prefer the better accuracy of Medium DC it's perfectly fine.
Gears 5 is such a beast in HDR.
Why if the TV tone maps to 4000 does fifa 19band the new fifa 20 demo blend at around 25 if fifa maps to 10000 nits
Texts look slightly more clear and can't see any added artifacts at all compared to 0.
