HDR is underrated

Noxia · 22 Jun 2025 at 16:38

phinix said:
Nah, not worth it, features like that should be ready for all users, without need of messing around with anything.
Like raytracing, kinda gimmicky feature, which could be nice if done right and have proper hardware power to handle it.

I'd be rich if I had a quid for all the people who said Ray tracing was gimmicky until they had a card capable of using it properly.
It is done right and we do have the hardware to handle it, it's increasingly common

arknor · 22 Jun 2025 at 18:28

i have a 4k qdoled hdr monitor and most of the time don't use it, only a few games are really worth it.

phinix · 22 Jun 2025 at 19:45

Noxia said:
I'd be rich if I had a quid for all the people who said Ray tracing was gimmicky until they had a card capable of using it properly.
It is done right and we do have the hardware to handle it, it's increasingly common

yeah, too expensive, I meant affordable hardware.

Minstadave · 22 Jun 2025 at 19:46

arknor said:
i have a 4k qdoled hdr monitor and most of the time don't use it, only a few games are really worth it.

Have you got an Nvidia GPU? RTX HDR really improved some of my non HDR games. Hell Let Loose looks incredible with it.

VincentHanna · 22 Jun 2025 at 21:50

It's probably not accurate, but the HDR on Final Fantasy VII remake pops

xaldub · 23 Jun 2025 at 00:47

Speaking of HDR, and how broken it can be ... the latest Windows 11 update has broken HDR for some LG OLED users ( and other manufacturers ) by introducing a bug that enables Dolby Vision even when it's switched to "off". On my LG C3, if Dolby is set to "on" HGIG doesn't work ... so it breaks my HDR settings. Had fun trying to work out what had happened. Thought my display had developed a fault, or the latest NVIDIA drivers had done something. But no, it was a good old Microsoft failure.

phinix · 23 Jun 2025 at 09:21

xaldub said:
Speaking of HDR, and how broken it can be ... the latest Windows 11 update has broken HDR for some LG OLED users ( and other manufacturers ) by introducing a bug that enables Dolby Vision even when it's switched to "off". On my LG C3, if Dolby is set to "on" HGIG doesn't work ... so it breaks my HDR settings. Had fun trying to work out what had happened. Thought my display had developed a fault, or the latest NVIDIA drivers had done something. But no, it was a good old Microsoft failure.

Didn't know about that bug, probably cause I did not turn that on.

xaldub · 23 Jun 2025 at 09:36

phinix said:
Didn't know about that bug, probably cause I did not turn that on.

I didn't turn Dolby Vision on either ... the update switches it on even if the toggle says otherwise. I only found out when I switched Windows to HDR ( Win key + Alt + B shortcut ) then all hell broke loose ....

phinix · 23 Jun 2025 at 10:01

xaldub said:
I didn't turn Dolby Vision on either ... the update switches it on even if the toggle says otherwise. I only found out when I switched Windows to HDR ( Win key + Alt + B shortcut ) then all hell broke loose ....

Ooft, I just realised I still have windows 10, so all good

Noxia · 23 Jun 2025 at 10:43

Yep had that same bug, made my screen go 8bit colours. Knew it was windows update as it was the last thing I did before I turned PC off.
It wasn't until a bit of digging though. I knew exactly what the issue was as Xaldub explained.